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Old 01-25-2010, 12:32 PM   #1
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Mercedes-Benz in-house hot-shop AMG is considering creating a high-performance small car off the forthcoming MFA platform. But here's the twist: While the MFA, which will underpin the next-generation A-Class, B-Class, and three new small Mercedes models by 2012, is a front-drive platform, the AMG car will be rear drive. A decision on the project is due later this month.The smallest car in the current AMG lineup is the 6.2-liter V-8-powered C63.

Mercedes has offered an AMG-modified A-Class in the past, but AMG boss Volker Mornhinweg says a front-drive performance car is incompatible with the performance company's core values. He says AMG has looked at the MFA platform and believes it can engineer a rear-drive version. "We have the capability to do it," he says.



Rear drive would give the baby AMG car steering and handling consistent with the impressive new E63, C63, and SLS models. Considering the likely packaging constraints, a big V-8 engine is obviously out of the question, but Mornhinweg hints even a four-cylinder powerplant could be tuned to deliver the high torque performance feel that's become an AMG trademark. Transmission would be a dual-clutch manual or seven-speed Speedshift automatic.

AMG version aside, the new MFA platform will play a key role in Mercedes-Benz's plans to reach 1.5 million sales worldwide by 2015. "We do not have a dominant position in the front-drive compact class," says Daimler chairman Dieter Zetsche, who notes Mercedes has sold more of the new E-Class than BMW 5 Series and Audi A6 combined.

With five new compact front-drive models positioned between smart and the C-Class, Zetsche clearly expects that to change.The new small Benzes will be premium vehicles, not cut-priced entry points to the three-pointed star, insists Zetsche. "The premium and low-price segments remain the determining poles of the automotive industry," Zetsche explains. "The problem lies in the middle, where companies without a good cost position or a good brand position will fall into the hole.

We are convinced the percentage of the market that is premium will stay the same as in the past; therefore, we are very focused on this segment."
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Old 01-25-2010, 02:18 PM   #2
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price may kill this one though
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Old 01-25-2010, 03:30 PM   #3
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^ I don't think so. It's an AMG...they have typically been very expensive high performance versions of Mercedes vehicles; it's sort of what AMG exists for. They just want a small performance car because they don't have one currently; Mercedes will still have the non-AMG MFA platform for volume sales of vehicles and AMG will now have a car to compete with smaller high performance vehicles. It's a win for Mercedes in every aspect.
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Old 01-25-2010, 03:51 PM   #4
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Get rid of the Brabus Smart Car and AMG it up!
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vaporware till it hits the US.
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Old 11-11-2010, 10:43 PM   #6
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Mercedes-Benz C63 AMG Black Series spy shots – Click above for high-res image gallery

This set of spy photos landed in our inbox showing what appears to be a modified version of the giant-slaying Mercedes-Benz C63 AMG prepping for testing. Our spies indicate that this could be a high-powered Black Series version of the M3-killing C-Class, rumored to have around 510 horsepower. You know, because the standard 451-hp C63 just isn't sweet enough.

We know that the next-generation C-Class is due to arrive within the next couple of years (before the facelifted version arrives in 2011), so perhaps this is a sort of last hurrah for the top-dog C63. We can clearly see the tacked-on wider fender flares and front wheels similar to those that debuted on the CLK Black Series a few years back, and our spies suggest that a larger front spoiler and new rear diffuser will be added, as well. Power will still come from the same 6.2-liter V8 currently found in the C63, mated to a seven-speed AMG Speedshift transmission.

We're still a bit skeptical as to whether or not this is actually a full-on Black Series treatment. All we know is, we certainly wouldn't kick a 510-hp C63 AMG out of bed.

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Old 11-12-2010, 06:32 PM   #8
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It only make's sense that merc brings out a compact performance machine since BMW is coming out with a 1M and Audi, the RS3.
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tt v8 c63amg would be awesome
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