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G 63 AMG by GSC Might be Trying Too Hard

Since the Mercedes-Benz G 63 AMG has been a "love it or hate it" vehicle ever since the nutters from Affalterbach decided to actually build an AMG versionof the venerable off-roader, any kind of aftermarket tuning package for the model since then has been faced with the same problem.
Mercedes-Benz G 63 AMg by German Special Customs 20 photos
Photo: German Special Customs
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From a very subjective point of view, we're not exactly drooling over the latest G-Wagen creation from the tuning specialists at German Special Customs.

The tuning package consist of what GSC calls a “befitting its performance” exterior , albeit we fail to see how a red color, 23-inch light alloy wheels and a rear bumper design that mimics an aerodynamic diffuser are what “Doctor Tasteful” ordered for the bonkers off-roader.

The wide body kit, apart from the rear “diffuser” isn't actually that bad-looking, but along with the color combo and the prairie schooner-like wheels, isn't exactly giving us the eye-candy that we were expecting from GSC. Not to mention the fact that a real aerodynamic diffuser would make jack squat on a car with a Cd of 0.56.

On the plus side, the not-exactly puny 544 hp and 760 Nm (561 lb ft) of torque of the M157 engine were worked upon as well by the tuners from Chemnitz. Courtesy of a re-worked exhaust system and an ECU upgrade, the “Red Baron” in the adjacent photos develops “around 620 hp.”
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Alex handled his first real steering wheel at the age of five (on a field) and started practicing "Scandinavian Flicks" at 14 (on non-public gravel roads). Following his time at the University of Journalism, he landed his first real job at the local franchise of Top Gear magazine a few years before Mircea (Panait). Not long after, Alex entered the New Media realm with the autoevolution.com project.
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