2014 Mercedes-Benz S63 AMG 4MATIC

2014 Mercedes-Benz S63 AMG 4MATIC

2014 Mercedes-Benz S63 AMG 4MATIC - No, you would prefer not to nod off at the worst possible time of any auto, unquestionably not a 4943-pound, 577-hp car with a $140,425 base cost. Anyway there we were, practically napping off in the pilot's roost of this madly over-the-top S-class, appreciating a hot-stone back rub, perfumed and purged air ($350), and the calming resonances of the neighborhood established music station pumped through the Burmester High-End 3d sound framework ($6400), which we didn't botch with the standard Burmester offering in light of the fact that the metal speaker grilles say "Top of the line" right on them.

In the same way that we were thinking about whether those finely punctured tweeter spreads would work to force a tolerable shot of coffee, the auto served up an altogether the verse stimulant, the sound a cautioning over the Wagner. It had recognized our absentmindedness, not to the street, essentially, however to the wheel, which we had been just languidly fingering. Hands moved all the more immovably in contact, the alert subsided and the auto continued directing for us, "seeing" the turnpike path markings and step by step wavering between them. Before the tender influence of the frame could quiet us once more to our fantasies, we pulled off at a Starbucks.

Front View and Interior

Diversion is the calling card of the 2014 Mercedes-Benz S63 AMG, a remnant from the S-class leader extravagance vehicle on which it is based and with which it imparts a whole Skymall index's value of unnecessary however interesting engineering. Yet this is a true elite machine, as well, controlled by a 5.5-liter V-8 wearing a support of turbochargers and creating 664 lb-ft of top torque. The S63's standard four-wheel-drive framework takes that wind and proselytes it into a 3.8-second 0-to-60 time. Hold the pedal down, and you'll move through the a trap in 12.2 second at 118 mph, which the still 69 mph beneath its legislated 187-mph top pace.

2014 Mercedes-Benz S63 AMG 4MATIC : Electronic Judo

Those are extraordinary numbers, and the Mercedes-Benz S63 is an incredible auto to drive. Select Sport mode, and the skeleton and the directing harden up, taking into account more exact inputs than you would anticipate from this heavyweight. The versatile air suspension holds the mass under tight restraints as well as appears to utilize some auto judo to keep the S63's weight working for you. Brake-based torque vectoring positively helps, and the 67-percent back torque predisposition permits the auto to hold a back the drive a character. The grabby brakes and 20 inch wheels wrapped in amazed Continental Contisportcontact SP tires give repeatable 155-foot prevents from 70 mph. The main shortcoming in the mechanical bundle is the seven-velocity multiclutch programmed transmission, which appears to endure it issues with preoccupation at low speeds.

Machine and Front View

In any case there are different things about the S63 that aren't correct. Regardless of fitting the AMG Speedshift MCT transmission rather than the tried and true programmed utilized as a part of the standard S-class, the S63 does exclude dispatch control. Mercedes did hold the weirdo two-spoke guiding wheel and Grandpa's section mounted robo shifter from the customary S-class, touch focuses that ought to have been supplanted with sportier AMG pieces. What's more in spite of the instrument board being overpowered by a couple of 12.3-inch LCD screens complete with chrome-look virtual gages, what this auto truly needs is a head-up presentation to extend some of its plenitude of data where the driver can see it without getting sucked into the swirling pixels. The way things are, looking down at the dashboard throughout hard cornering and seeing the immense route screen turning can very nearly actuate squeamishness.

The Mercedes-Benz S63 is an AMG item for our time, in which "everything is astounding and no one's upbeat," as the humorist Louis C.k. puts it. Which aides clarify why we invested more of a chance "testing" this current Benz's controlling toward oneself versatile journey control, a piece of the $2800 Driver Assistance bundle that will do whatever it can to keep you from slamming short of paying for that espresso, than we did pushing this most recent AMG display around our taking care obviously. Pulling 0.93 g of horizontal hold on our skidpad is not almost the oddity keeping you from floating into a trench is.

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