We’ve already heard that the soon-to-arrive Mercedes-AMG E63 will be an all-wheel drive saloon (just like the smaller E43 variant), but now the Germans have revealed that it will also be equipped with a “drift mode”, just like the Ford Focus RS.
Seeing that all four wheels (rather than just the rear two) will be receiving power, getting the big saloon sideways will likely be far more difficult than what it was before. And that’s why the engineers have decided to add a drift mode.
The new mode will be manipulate the E63’s electronic stability control to render it rear-biased for controllable slides.
But AMG chairperson Tobias Moers also claims that the E63 will be even faster round a track than previously anticipated. With standard tyres, he claims that the latest AMG model will be able to achieve a time of under 7min 50sec time on the Nürburgring.
And it will do this while making use of some 447 kW drawn from the twin-turbo 4,0-litre V8. Expect to hear more about this car when it’s released at the beginning of 2017.
Source: Autocar
