Pity the folks at Mercedes-AMG. They had a lot to live up to. The C63, the company's long-running hot-rodded small sedan, had made a hell of an impression on car enthusiasts for more than a decade.

George has been writing about automotive/motorsport full-time since 2019. In addition to TopSpeed, he has previously contributed to The Guardian, Jalopnik, The Autopian, and Tazio. In recent years, ...

Mercedes-Benz’s AMG in-house tuning division has turned out some stunning four- and six-cylinder engines over the years, but its recent history has primarily been a binge of steroidal V-8s. As it ...

AMG took the the C63 in a new direction in 2022 with the introduction of a plug-in hybrid four-pot, and it’s finally admitted that this road was a dead-end. That’s according to comments from one ...

Since the formal merging of Mercedes and AMG in 2005 to form Mercedes-AMG GmbH the German performance subbrand has been on an interesting trajectory, especially with the relatively recent introduction ...

Driving the Mercedes-AMG C63 S E Performance, I couldn't help but imagine a confused German engineer sitting in the passenger seat, wondering why I wasn't having as much fun as its 671 horsepower ...

Curiously, German automakers have gone against their own long-standing traditions here and there over the past couple of years. BMW’s design center is out to lunch and Porsche badges no longer make ...

I can’t begin to tell you how many DIY projects I’ve started without a full understanding of what I was getting myself into. The first time I tried rewiring an electric guitar ended in a rat’s nest of ...

It's common for race cars to have some connection—however small—with performance road cars. Usually this takes the form of "homologation specials," road cars built specifically to qualify a racing ...