The Stuttgart car manufacturer also released the first official footage with the new performance sedan, which coincidentally seems to have been taken in... surprise!... Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
The car is powered by a twin-turbocharged six-liter V12 that offers no less than 630 hp and 1,000 Nm (738 lb ft) of electronically-limited torque, enough to catapult the rear-wheel drive behemoth from naught to 100 km/h (62 mph) in just 4.3 seconds and make it the most powerful and fastest luxury performance sedan in its segment.
Of course, part of the S 65 AMG's appeal is not the downright power and performance but the fact that they are achieved as effortless and as seamless as possible.
Even though there are only music and AMG engine sounds in the following marketing video, we think that the effortless power bit is very well represented by the footage, don't you?
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. Full profile
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