The only way is up for AMG
Benz hot shop says the future is in foursMercedes-Benz performance division AMG sells around 20,000 cars a year – all V8s or V12s and its smallest car is the C63 Coupe with its naturally aspirated 6.2-litre V8 engine.
Yet AMG development boss, Tobias Moers, insists its future volumes will be above 30,000 and almost all of that growth will be in four-cylinder cars.
“Mercedes-Benz will have five vehicles off the A-Class architecture in the compact class, and at a minimum, we will do three of them. And we will do them in both all-wheel drive and right-hand drive,” he said.
While Moers was tight lipped over the future of AMG’s much-vaunted stand-alone baby supercar, Daimler sources insist the SLC is still a live project.
“It’s a long way from dead. It’s still very alive,” one source insisted. “It has just been pushed back to move the investment cost from one year into a different year and to find a window with free manufacturing capacity.”
All of which is code for saying the SLC is still a very good chance of reaching production, but it will have to wait until the end of the SLS’s production run so AMG can build it without breaking the bank.
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