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The M engines were built with a purpose, and it reflected in all of their engine designs. They were special, the throttle response was unmatched by anything outside of an exotic, super high end sports car. They revved to the moon, had the flatest torque band all the way to the redline, had unique sounds, ITBs (on a V10!) which were combined to incredible chassis, segment first transmissions (SMG & DCT) and were excessively reliable for what they were. The S65 and S85 won all the engine awards for years!
The 6.2 V8 was used throughout the AMG range and wasn't anything special (6.2 DOHC with 450hp?!) until they really pushed it to its limits in the SLS Black Series (6.2 620hp), it's always been paired with an albeit evolving yet still old school torque converter. For fuck's sake, you had an electronically limited version in the C class that wouldn't allow full throttle body opening and you could find the same engine in a goddamn Minivan R Class. Talk about engineering and specialness.
Where's the purpose? The M156 was the LS engine of Mercedes, they put that thing in everything. FYI until 2010 these engines were blowing up left and right due to faulty headbolt designs. They're great engines, greater than BMWs? Maybe in the current gen, it's a toss up and I'm disinterested in the question since the are turbo.
Again, AMG should be seen as the hot-rods of the German sports cars. They stick huge, powerful mills in their cars with handling clearly not on the top of their list, reminds you of Americans no? They reserve the full AMG experience for Black Series cars; widebody treatments, engines evolved to their pinnacle, and a focus on handling.
The 6.2 V8 was used throughout the AMG range and wasn't anything special (6.2 DOHC with 450hp?!) until they really pushed it to its limits in the SLS Black Series (6.2 620hp), it's always been paired with an albeit evolving yet still old school torque converter. For fuck's sake, you had an electronically limited version in the C class that wouldn't allow full throttle body opening and you could find the same engine in a goddamn Minivan R Class. Talk about engineering and specialness.
Where's the purpose? The M156 was the LS engine of Mercedes, they put that thing in everything. FYI until 2010 these engines were blowing up left and right due to faulty headbolt designs. They're great engines, greater than BMWs? Maybe in the current gen, it's a toss up and I'm disinterested in the question since the are turbo.
Again, AMG should be seen as the hot-rods of the German sports cars. They stick huge, powerful mills in their cars with handling clearly not on the top of their list, reminds you of Americans no? They reserve the full AMG experience for Black Series cars; widebody treatments, engines evolved to their pinnacle, and a focus on handling.
Are we taking a trip down memory lane?
What about these motors makes them "better" than the AMG V12s? The V8s?
The V10 is notorious for Vanos failures and has been out of production for 6 years. It loved to rev and it sounded sweet I'll give you that but so what?
Even the normally aspirated AMG V8s are more powerful and reliable so I don't see what's so special about it.
The M3's V8 has also gone the way of the dodo. Impressive design, trick individual throttle bodies and all. It's one of the best small displacement V8s out there. Truth is I don't care about displacement and still like the larger AMG V8 better.
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