CLS-Class (C219) First Drives: Mercedes CLS63 AMG

[Merc1]

First Drives: Mercedes CLS63 AMG

CAR's rating

This is the top 'banana' – the Mercedes-Benz CLS63 AMG with 507bhp and 465lb ft of torque. Mildly revised along with the rest of the CLS range, the CLS63 gets a new set of so-called silencers, and the same downshift-blipping auto-box as the AMG C-class. Is this enough to take the four-door uber-coupe from good to truly great?

There’s only one way to find out about this Merc CLS63 AMG: thrash it

You just don’t turn down the key to an AMG Mercedes. I barely bothered to take in the new twin-louvre front grille, LED indicators and taillights, and inch-bigger titanium-finish 19s (actually, to be honest, I did notice those), before ripping the door open and bolting from the car park into the Austrian countryside.

And thank goodness we did. Very quickly we found ourselves heading up a steep, switchbacked hillside, all hairpin bends and loose, greasy surfaces, still damp at midday due to the overhanging trees. Narrow but completely lacking in any obstructive traffic. It was one of those moments when you just put your right foot all the way to the floor.


Mercedes CLS63 AMG (2008): CAR review | Road Testing Reviews | Car Magazine Online


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[Zafiro]

Is there a reason why CLS63 dont use the new MCT gearbox?

 

[Merc1]

Other than it just having come out I don't think so. The CLS may have to wait until the next generation before it gets MCT.

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[Family Guy]

They Should of

 

[justanthony]

Is there a reason why CLS63 dont use the new MCT gearbox?

They were saving it for the FL Sl debut

 

[PanterroR]

This is the top 'banana'

I agree 100%!

 

[Centurion]

Hahaha can't believe they wrote that. Does the banana come in yellow??

 

[Merc1]

For a price I'm sure AMG will gladly do it...lol

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[Zafiro]

Hahaha can't believe they wrote that. Does the banana come in yellow??

Requested! a rotten banana for you

 

[PanterroR]

Looks like it say CLS 35 in the back...

 

[Centurion]

Oh snap, so there is a yellow one, I guess the circle has been completed then. But I still this is sexier:

 

[Tarek]

Wow a new AMG V6 CLS35

 

[ree]

Looks like it say CLS 35 in the back...

Then you know, which engine it uses.
It's the same with an Audi A3, I saw some days ago. It said S3 on the left site and 3.0 TDI Quattro on the right. But it was definitely a 2.0 TDI.
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Nevertheless, I still like the CLS.