If Brabus focused their attention of the S-Class for thew Frankfurt Motor Show, Carlsson moved their attention to the E63 AMG sports sedan. Their tuning package called E-CK63 RS is focusing on both car’s dynamic and luxurious.
Featuring an entirely re-engineered V8-engine, the E-CK63 RS delivers 585 hp and 695 NM and sprints from 0 to 60 mph in just 4.5 seconds.
At the exterior the German tuner added: front skirt, extended wings, side mouldings and rear skirt reveals the power of the Carlsson E-class at first sight, all made of polyurethane. On the interior Carlsson added aluminum applications on the door lock studs, the pedals and the foot rest, while the seats, the steering wheel, the automatic gearstick and the insides of the door are lined with the most delicate materials.
The German automaker Mercedes Benz was gracious enough to grant us with a Palladium Silver 2010 Mercedes Benz E 350 so that we could have a go at it as part of our Top Speed test fleet. Not only has the E-Class been completely redesigned for 2010, but in another step that we like very much, Mercedes has lowered the price for the full size sedan by almost $5,000 compared to the previous generation E. The 2010 E-Class features a restyled front end complete with a squared off split headlamp design as well as a pair of the oh so trendy LED driving lights in the bumper openings on either side of the front end, while out back the new E features a set of stretched taillights.
The 3.5 Liter V6 under the hood is good for 268 HP and 258 lb-ft of torque while consuming just 18 MPG in the city and 26 MPG at highway speeds. The interior is finished with fine leather wrapped seats and door cars, while the darker colored dash is offset by a strip of wood grain that encircles the entire cabin. The wood theme continues into the center console that leads up to the center stack that contains the climate controls, radio and navigation system which is finished off with a rather large LCD display. One of the more interesting features that the German design team incorporated is a pair of storage compartments integrated into the front seats.
The tuning house Kicherer has just revealed a new package for the 2010 E Class that reworks the car both inside and out creating a much more aggressive, sportier appearance. Starting off up front with the carbon fiber splitter, moving back past the 20 inch rims and ending up out back with the new rear diffuser and integrated angular exhaust pipes, the Kicherer E Class has become a beast of a different nature.
The German tuning firm Carlsson has a long tradition of modifying Mercedes Benz models with everything from wild body kits and two tone paint jobs to more tasteful wheel and tire upgrades. Being that the 2010 E Class coupe is still a brand new model, and most automotive enthusiasts haven’t even had the opportunities to get to know the sporty two door’s aggressively sweeping lines. So the designers at Carlsson have decided to leave the bodywork alone for now and focus on upgrading the new E Class coupe by modifying its stance and fitting it with a pair of new shoes.
The suspension is modified with a set of lowering springs from the German manufacturer and brings the body about and inch closer the ground and eliminates any unsightly wheel gap that would show up between the new rims and the coupe’s already bold fenders. Carlsson is currently offering two different wheel and tire packages designed to work with the 2010 E Class. The first is a rather large 20 inch variant of their two tone split five spoke 1/5 REVO wheels starting at 3969 Euro. For the more conservative consumer Carlsson is also offering a set of 19 inch rollers for the shapely coupe, the brilliantly polished eleven spoke 1/11 Evo Brilliant Edition that will set you back only 2499 Euro.
Back in July Top Speed reported that the German automaker Mercedes Benz has plans for an AMG Black Series version for the new E-Class Coupe. However according to sources at AMG, the car will not be built around making more power, but like the Lexus IS-F Evolution, will be all about weight-saving technologies and fine-tuning of the moving parts to make the most out of what is already there, like all the future AMG models.
However, Mercedes has no plans to develop a regular AMG version of the 2010 E-class coupe and there will also be no AMG version of the C-Class sedan. Instead the current C63 AMG will be replaced with a more powerful version because it is the least potent of all AMG models. While the current model delivers 475 HP, the future version will deliver somewhere between 500 HP to 525 HP.
Hopefully the lightweight approach will not only benefit handling and performance figures, but will also help a future C63 to get more than 10 MPG.
Audi has just shoehorned a V10 in the back of the R8 and Mercedes Benz is messing with the entire E Class range for 2010, however the crew from Car and Driver were curious to see how two very different, yet very similar high performance machines would stack up against one another at the drag strip for some straight line acceleration competition. On one hand is the lightweight 420 HP Audi R8 super car while on the other is one of the baddest grocery getters of all time, the Mercedes Benz E63 AMG Estate. Despite the fact that the Merc has an extra hundered horsepower under the hood, the R8’s Quattro all wheel drive system should be good for a better 60 foot time, but the real surbrise came at the end of the quarter mile. That is because despite having the exact same 0 to 60 MPH time, the AMG barely nosed out the R8 at the end of the 1320.
There’s ugly and then there’s hideous. It takes a complete eyesore for us to label something ugly but this one went further than anyone of us ever expected. This car is a previous generation Mercedes Benz E-Class W124 but from the looks of things, it hardly resembles anything the guys from Daimler would ever build. It’s been completely modified – if you can even call something like as ‘modified’ – to look like, well, this. Yeah, very often are we at a loss for words but this one managed to accomplish that.
Try as we may to justify this creation, we just can’t. The car’s front has been completely altered with grills that make it look like a medieval helmet. The designers - which apparently goes by the name ’Arturos’ - also included a number of slit-looking air vents on both sides of the car, which, quite frankly, reminds us of those water-faring creatures known as fishes. The designer even managed to outdo itself by replacing the E-Class W124’s head and tail lights with CLK-style headlights and SLK tail lamps.
We’d describe the car even further but we’re afraid that it still wouldn’t do it enough justice so we’ve decided to just let you see it for yourself.
Even if the German automaker has just launched the new Mercedes Benz E-Class, and it is a big hit in the new car market. Since appearing in showrooms this past spring, the luxury automaker has moved 40,000 of the redesigned four door full size sedan. Starting this fall, Mercedes will be adding another variant of the popular new E-Class into the marketplace, and this time it will be an avant, meaning that we should see something at the upcoming Frankfurt Motor Show.
Like the sedan, the new wagon will be offered with a range of four, six and eight cylinder power plants producing anywhere from an economical 136 HP to a very menacing 525 HP. When the leaves change colors the Mercedes lineup will include a few diesel powered versions like the E 250 CDI making 204 HP and 368 lb-ft of torque, the E 220 CDI pumping out 170 HP and the E 200 CDI that makes up the lower end of the power range. The most powerful of the alternatively fueled versions will be the E 350 CDI with a maximum output of 231 HP. The gas burning lineup consists of the E 200 CGI with 184 HP, the E 250 CGI cranking out 292 HP; both equipped with the newly developed 1.8 Liter four cylinder engine while the range topping E500 will send 388 to the ground.
Back in April Top Speed reported that the luxury automaker Mercedes Benz would not produce an E63 AMG coupe. However it appears that Dr. Z has prescribed the German car builder’s in house tuner AMG to skip the factory tuned regimen and go straight into making an all out light weight high performance Black Series version of the E Class coupe. The original CLK63 AMG Black Series served as the Formula 1 pace car before being replaced by the almighty SL65 AMG Black Series. Mercedes Benz even saw fit to work the Black Series magic on the compact SLK roadster.
The car will be powered by the same 6.2 Liter V8 as the smaller C63 AMG, tuned to crank out somewhere between 500 HP and 525 HP. Like all the other Black Series Mercedes Benz models, the future E63 AMG Coupe Black Series will be all about weight reduction, so expect to see lots and lots of carbon fiber going into the car’s production even early on in the development process.
We can not tell you exactly when the car will be unveiled, but considering AMG is currently working on the SLS AMG super car it might take awhile, but the high performance uber"E" will definitely be worth the wait. Stay tuned for more details as they roll in.
The press days for the New York Auto Show are a week away, but Mercedes can’t wait that long. The company revealed today the first official details and images on the most powerful model in the E-Class line-up.
The quickest of the E-Class is powered by a 6.3-liter V8 engine plucked directly from the SL63 AMG. Although rumors had the power up to 525 hp, the E63 makes the same 518 hp as found in the SL63 (European versions of both cars make 525 hp). This is a 10 hp bump from the predecessor, and fuel economy has still improved by twelve percent to 22 mpg.
Also from the SL63 is the Speedshift MCT seven-speed double-clutch automatic transmission. This is coupled into four driving modes: Controlled Efficiency, Sport, Sport Plus and Manual. The whole package should be good for a 0 to 62 mph (100 kmh) time of 4.5sec, and top speed is limited to Germany’s standard 155mph.
Sales should begin in Europe in August, and the U.S. should follow soon after.
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