The successful C 63 AMG model has now increased performance due to the Performance Package Plus. This new optional feature is available to the sports drivers with a constant demand for more power and it increases the C 63 AMG engine’s output by 30 hp up to a smashing value of 487 hp! This amazing result is very close to the level of performance offered by C Class DTM racing cars which deliver 500 hp. With a little more effort AMG could have made a road car faster than a professional racing car. Since this performance package is available for both saloon and estate models the picture that automatically comes to my mind is a Mercedes C 63 AMG featuring the Performance Package Plus coming to the race track out of nowhere and leaving the professional DTM racing cars behind. But, enough with this kind of fantasies and let’s see why this performance upgrade for the C63 AMG is so great.

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The new Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG

New super sports ‘Gullwing’ car from Mercedes-Benz and AMG – a fascinating inside into the new SLS high tech high performance car

It has been anticipated, waited for, speculated upon and now it’s here and it’s ready to be wanted, desired, owned and driven like nothing else before. Mercedes clearly succeeded something hard to imagine: to design, develop and produce an astonishing super sports car with breath taking performance and a design that is both unique, refined, challenging, daring, and simply impossible to categorize. This car is going to make some very lucky people’s dreams come true while it is going to make the most of us just dream about it. You can hardly find a match for this car, one that combines all the features that the new Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG has in all it’s aspects. Fascination is the nearest equivalent.

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