Photo: X-Tomi Design
Unveiled last week in all its brutish gorgeousness, the Mercedes-Benz S 63 AMG Coupe (C217) is pretty much the epitome of what a fast luxury coupe should be like.
Powered by a twin-turbocharged 5.5-liter V8 with no less than 585 hp and 900 Nm (664 lb ft) of torque, the uber-coupe with AMG lettering can catapult itself from naught to 100 km/h (62 mph in just 4.3 seconds for the rear-wheel drive version and a supercar-like 3.9 seconds for the all-wheel drive 4Matic variant.
As a world first, the S 63 AMG Coupe is fitted with an active curve tilting function, which means that it can actually lean into bends just like a motorcyclist or a skier in order to minimize the lateral acceleration acting upon the passengers.
There are so many features and qualities embedded in the model that if we were to enumerate them all we would probably need more than a single article. What the S-Class Coupe in general doesn't have is a pickup truck bed in the rear though.
If you were wondering how such a coupe pickup truck would look like, the above rendering by X-Tomi Design is a pretty good reference, and in a slightly weird way we kind of like it.
The original coupe pickup trucks were of course the Ford Ranchero and the Chevrolet El Camino/Caballero, but their time has long passed and sales of such a model would probably be abysmal, despite its inherent coolness.
The best reason for an S-Class Coupecamino to not exist is probably the Chevrolet SSR – built between 2003 and 2006 – which was no only a coupe pickup truck but also a roadster pickup truck thanks to its retractable hard top and sold like stale cupcakes.
Despite its almost non-existent theoretical chances, nobody had asked for a G 63 AMG 6x6 either and (very rich) people buy it nevertheless, so sometimes it's better to just create a niche at the right time and not follow suit. We think that the UAE and maybe even some parts of the US might actually become markets for a couple of hundreds of luxury coupe pickup trucks from Mercedes-Benz.
As a world first, the S 63 AMG Coupe is fitted with an active curve tilting function, which means that it can actually lean into bends just like a motorcyclist or a skier in order to minimize the lateral acceleration acting upon the passengers.
There are so many features and qualities embedded in the model that if we were to enumerate them all we would probably need more than a single article. What the S-Class Coupe in general doesn't have is a pickup truck bed in the rear though.
If you were wondering how such a coupe pickup truck would look like, the above rendering by X-Tomi Design is a pretty good reference, and in a slightly weird way we kind of like it.
The original coupe pickup trucks were of course the Ford Ranchero and the Chevrolet El Camino/Caballero, but their time has long passed and sales of such a model would probably be abysmal, despite its inherent coolness.
The best reason for an S-Class Coupecamino to not exist is probably the Chevrolet SSR – built between 2003 and 2006 – which was no only a coupe pickup truck but also a roadster pickup truck thanks to its retractable hard top and sold like stale cupcakes.
Despite its almost non-existent theoretical chances, nobody had asked for a G 63 AMG 6x6 either and (very rich) people buy it nevertheless, so sometimes it's better to just create a niche at the right time and not follow suit. We think that the UAE and maybe even some parts of the US might actually become markets for a couple of hundreds of luxury coupe pickup trucks from Mercedes-Benz.
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