Posts Tagged ‘AMG’
Drive news – Mad Merc SLS AMG hits SA
July 20th, 2010 
Russell 
SLS officially released on local roads . Following-on from this morning’s news about the Focus RS heading our way, last week saw Mercedes-Benz SA showing off its newest superstar, the gullwinged beauty the SLS, to selected local motoring hacks who got the chance to drive it on road and track under our wintry-but-warm sun. This [...]
Drive test – Mercedes S63 AMG
July 16th, 2010 Russell 
PMS ON WHEELS Drive Magazine, December ’09 Male PMS is not something you hear discussed every day, but that doesn’t mean that the phenomenon doesn’t exist. It’s not cyclical and has nothing to do with the moon, and while for some men it’s a state that never really comes into play, for others, it’s what’s [...]
Drive Versus – Mercedes E63 AMG v Chrysler 300C SRT-8
May 21st, 2010 Russell Superstars! The V8 SuperStars saloon cars we watched, heard, and felt rumbling about Kyalami a few months back included a rather eclectic mixture of basic hardware in the pitlane. The Germans dominated, BMW M3s, M5s, Audi RS4s, with some wonderful Italian brio added in the form of the Maserati Quattroporte entrants, and even a dash [...]
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Tags: AMG, Chrysler, E63, Mercedes, Mopar, srt-8, Superstars, V8, Versus 
3 Comments »Drive Magazine April 2010
April 16th, 2010 Russell Open publication – Free publishing – More vivo – Click here to download the magazine now! (5.2MB) With the World Cup kickoff rapidly approaching and now near enough for us to taste, our April issue of South Africa’s best free, online motoring magazine Drive is just what you need to quell the unbridled excitement bubbling [...]
AMG's top lunatic heads for vans
March 23rd, 2010 Kyle Stone In a move that could possibly result in a series of the biggest crashes you’ve ever seen, Mercedes have taken the boss of AMG, you know, those insane guys from Stuttgart with no regard for rear tires, and put him in charge of their van division. Now given AMG’s penchant for putting their 6.3 V8 [...]
AMG's still bonkers
March 13th, 2010 Kyle Stone AMG’S new 63 Anyone remotely interested in performance motoring will at the very least have heard of Mercedes AMG’s 63 motor, their mad V8 that AMG seem intent on putting in virtually every single one of their vehicles. And for good reason, sure it could hardly be described as the most frugal engine around but [...]
Posted in Drive News Tags: 63, AMG, biturbo, Daimler, M 157, Mercedes-Benz, piezoelectric, S 63, V8 No Comments »F1's latest monster
March 1st, 2010 Kyle Stone SLS F1 Safety Car When the 2010 F1 season kicks off in Bahrain early March some of the worlds most impressive cars will be on display, but threatening to steal the show is AMG’s all-new halo car, the SLS gullwing. The new Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG Official F1™ Safety Car replaces the already very special SL [...]
Posted in Drive News Tags: 6.3L, AMG, F1, Mercedes GP, Mercedes-Benz, safety car, SLS, V8 No Comments »SLS AMG – real or CGI?
January 14th, 2010 Russell Just skip over all the boring prep-work and fast-forward to around the 2:10 mark in this video… Then catch your breath… Then watch it again… And so what do you all think? Real, or CGI? Me, I’m inclined to believe the impossible is possible and say it’s the genuine article.
SLS AMG looking like The Real Deal!
September 15th, 2009 Russell Yes while Mclaren readies it’s own new supercar, its partners in the faintly silly SLR Mercedes have entrusted their next full-on supercar over to their tuning arm AMG, and the result is looking rather tasty indeed. The SLS may be dripping with nostalgic styling cues harking back to that greatest of Mercedes supercars, the SL [...]
