When AMG announced that the E 63 AMG and CLS 63 AMG facelift will only come with 4Matic all-wheel drive on the US market, there were plenty of voices arguing about how the known wow-factor given by the tail-happiness of AMGs will be lost.
Obviously, no matter how much of a sporty setup it might have, an all-wheel drive system will never offer the same amount of fun compared to the classic real-wheel drive.
On the other hand, an RWD car will never offer the same amount of grip at the drag strip compared to the AMG-tuned 4Matic, and the following video is the perfect proof for that affirmation.
Basically, the following footage is depicting a 2014 Mercedes-Benz E 63 AMG 4Matic with a RENNTech ECU tune and race gas - but otherwise completely stock – run against a number of highly respectable sports cars, including a 600 hp Nissan GT-R.
With overall power close to the S-Model version, the car is faring rather well on the drag strip, with a best quarter mile time of just 11 seconds, thus shutting up a lot of all-wheel drive haters out there.
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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