“The horsepower war is over,” AMG boss Volker Mornhinweg told AutoCar. Mornhinweg said that AMG is now going to focus on pursuing higher fuel-economy for its future cars while trying to better performance levels. He said that AMG will do that by cutting weight, optimizing the engine and using other alternative fuel-saving technologies. According to Mornhinweg, we’ll get to see those changes in the redesigned Mercedes E 63 AMG due out later this year. He said that the new E 63 AMG will be lighter and will provide a little more “grunt” with better fuel-economy.

The boss of AMG also confirmed that the high-performance division was looking into producing compact AMG models. A AMG A-Class or B-Class in the works? We’ll find out soon enough.

 

 

the interior is nice, but the body is butt ugly.

 

lighter, uglier, more expensive.

sign me up.

 

it will be a non turbo 6.2 L , same engine as current E63 what a load of bullshit. The facelifted "current" e-class wil get a 5.4l v8 twin turbo.

They will do the same 2 new amg models in the e-classes 8 year life line that being E63 pre face lift and E55 twin turbo post facelift.

 

The center console looks awfully cheap. wtf?

 

I actually like the interior... but the tail lights continue to kill this car for me...

 

AMG is just a sore loser because Audi crammed an extra 113 horsepower into their RS6!

 

Sorry.. but that car is fugly. I usually love the interiors by Merc, but this interior looks straight out of a Cadillac CTS.

 

So their new, uglier car is going to be .... slower?

Have we reached the point in history where everything that has been invented and improved has already been done and we are just going backwards from here? Does this mean Jamie will get younger? And that this is the first Mercedes since 1983 that hasn't got any rust on it when it leaves the showroom floor?