Mercedes-Benz CL63 AMG
Mercedes’ muscular CL63 AMG gets a smaller engine,
but loses none of its sledgehammer performance
Mercedes’ muscular CL63 AMG gets a smaller engine,
but loses none of its sledgehammer performance
Watch CAR’s track test driver, Deon Joubert, set consecutive lap times within an incredible two hundredths of a second in the muscular Mercedes-Benz CL63 AMG at Cape Town’s Killarney circuit. You can read the full road test of the 400 kW bi-turbo 5,5-litre V8-engined machine in the April issue of CAR!
It doesn’t happen often that you attend the launch of a new car, or range, and the least powerful engine in the line-up is a 4,7-litre V8 biturbo delivering 320 kW and 700 N.m! Then again, the other engines in this particular line-up are a 5,5-litre V8 and two V12 biturbos! But, that was exactly the case at the local launch of new Mercedes-Benz CL-class.
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