Highlights
- All-new model
- Looks the part
- 4WD and 585hp
- Class Flagship Mercedes Coupe
- 5.5 litre V8, bi-turbo engine
- 664 ft lb and estimated 22.8 mpg
- A new class of speed
+ Pros
Turbo engine is a powerhouse | Head turning styling | A real four-seater
coupe | Sets the class benchmark compare cars in technical innovation
- Cons This much power could be disastrous to a clean driving record
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| 2015 Mercedes S63 AMG Coupe - First Drive
A world-class luxury coupe like the new Mercedes
S-Class Coupe is akin to a sports jacket from an haute couture tailor
who works with the finest cloth. It must exude gravitas and elegance as
well as a relaxed chic. The Italians have the perfect word for this: sprezzatura, the art of effortless superiority.
In design terms, Mercedes is the only player in
this segment who has truly succeeded in bringing luxury car design into
the 21st century. And this is not purely a cosmetic exercise. In terms
of onboard technology, the company has also left its rivals half a
generation behind.
Thus, the new Mercedes S-Class Coupe exudes a
dynamism that catches your eye in a way that charges the brain with the
notion that the car is moving or is about to move even when it's
standing still.
The new coupe's low roofline features the
traditional Mercedes pillarless side glass, and its squat, purposeful
stance is emphasized by the horizontal chrome feature strip that spans
the trunk lid and the tops of the rear light clusters.
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| 2015 Mercedes S63 AMG Coupe - First Drive
The big front grille with its huge three-pointed
star and single horizontal bar is the epitome of the Mercedes sport
grille. But where the grille was flush with the bodywork on the coupe's
less sculpted C215 predecessor, it is now a three-dimensional element,
thrusting forward into the airstream as part of an organically shaped
nose cone that extends downward into a curvaceous front spoiler, flanked
by LED headlamps featuring 47 Swarovski crystals in each unit.
Inside, the refreshing approach to cabin design
shows an appropriately forward-looking touch underpinned by
unimpeachable build quality, and top-quality materials are as pleasing
to the fingertips as they are to the eyes. The widescreen electronic
displays that sit cheek-by-jowl in the new dashboard are identical to
the S-Class limos, and that is no bad thing since they are the class of
the industry. To maximize the feeling of light and space, a glass
Panorama roof is set into an external roofline dropped by 0.3 inch for a
sleeker look. The lack of a sliding sunroof led to a gain of 1.34
inches of extra headroom.
Wind noise at speed is impressively low, and the
coupe is even quieter in this respect than the S-Class sedan and the
now-defunct Maybach uber-limousine, and 30 percent quieter than the CL.
While the S500 Coupe has the same 0.27 drag coefficient as the sedan,
careful wind tunnel work around the A-pillars and the pillarless side
glass is responsible for its lower wind noise. Hypothetically, you can
leave the volume control for the fabulously musical Burmester audio
system turned one notch lower!
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| 2015 Mercedes S63 AMG Coupe - First Drive
If anything, the Sport mode is the one that
impresses more as it manages to maintain most of the suppleness of the
Comfort setting in its secondary ride, whilst delivering iron-fisted
control of the car's not insubstantial bulk when pressing on.
Rear-wheel-drive coupes are fitted with ABC suspension featuring Magic
Body Control, while 4Matic versions have Airmatic suspension with ZF's
electronic Continuous Damper Control (CDC). The new Curve Tilt Function
that leans the car into bends like a motorcycle is an extra option for
ABC-equipped RWD models.
"We benefitted from the complete sea change in
the philosophy of the S-Class Coupe compared to the outgoing CL,"
explained AMG's product planning manager, Oliver Weich. "Where the CL
was more or less a short wheelbase two-door S-Class, the physically
smaller and lighter C217 S-Class Coupe was designed to be a sportier car
from day one.
"It was an aim of both the Mercedes and AMG
teams that the S-Class Coupe would not just promise a sporty drive with
its sleek design, but actually be able to follow through in its driving
dynamics as well."
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| Mercedes S63 AMG Coupe Taillight 09
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