Your purchase of a performance branded vehicle from SRT, M, AMG, SVT or the like is typically an investment in more than a special badge and some basic bolt-ons over a standard vehicle. Decades of experience in performance, racing, engine assembly and high-tech are built right in to machines like these. Now, more than ever, factory-tuned sports models are giving drivers cheaper and more sensible access to the limits of street-legal speed and awesomeness.
Today’s high-performing cars are quicker, more sensible and easier to use than ever. The capabilities are enormous. Zero-to-sixty in five seconds used to be Ferrari and Lamborghini territory. Now, you can get a station wagon that puts down similar figures. You know, for when the kids are late for swimming.
AMG, the performance-engineered division of Mercedes Benz, offers perhaps the largest line of exclusive, high-velocity models in the Canadian marketplace. The brand started in motorsports in 1967, eventually became absorbed by Mercedes Benz and now sells machinery that meets a variety of tastes. These range from the aforementioned rocket wagon to high-performance coupes, thruster-propelled SUVs and gullwing-doored, carbon-fibre supercars like the SLS AMG.
Fancy something exclusive, explosive, and packed with enough horsepower to set your face on fire? AMG probably has a vehicle for you.
Like their rivals, this in-house tuning division doesn’t build cars by shoving in a larger engine and slapping on a special badge. Their products are engaged in an all-out assault on ‘slow’ – with braking, handling, driveline and chassis upgrades, as well as enhancements to all the support systems in between.
Translation?
You’re not touching the limits of an AMG or similar product on the streets with any hope of keeping your license.
But where to let those ponies, g-forces and high-speed aerodynamic tweaks run free? Or try the handling? Or see how things feel at two-hundred plus? Assuming you haven’t just bought an AMG car for the badge, exhaust note and ‘I could if I wanted to’ bragging rights, there’s a great way to maximize your investment and experience the answer to these questions.
Today’s high-performing cars are quicker, more sensible and easier to use than ever. The capabilities are enormous. Zero-to-sixty in five seconds used to be Ferrari and Lamborghini territory. Now, you can get a station wagon that puts down similar figures. You know, for when the kids are late for swimming.
AMG, the performance-engineered division of Mercedes Benz, offers perhaps the largest line of exclusive, high-velocity models in the Canadian marketplace. The brand started in motorsports in 1967, eventually became absorbed by Mercedes Benz and now sells machinery that meets a variety of tastes. These range from the aforementioned rocket wagon to high-performance coupes, thruster-propelled SUVs and gullwing-doored, carbon-fibre supercars like the SLS AMG.
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Fancy something exclusive, explosive, and packed with enough horsepower to set your face on fire? AMG probably has a vehicle for you.
Like their rivals, this in-house tuning division doesn’t build cars by shoving in a larger engine and slapping on a special badge. Their products are engaged in an all-out assault on ‘slow’ – with braking, handling, driveline and chassis upgrades, as well as enhancements to all the support systems in between.
Translation?
You’re not touching the limits of an AMG or similar product on the streets with any hope of keeping your license.
But where to let those ponies, g-forces and high-speed aerodynamic tweaks run free? Or try the handling? Or see how things feel at two-hundred plus? Assuming you haven’t just bought an AMG car for the badge, exhaust note and ‘I could if I wanted to’ bragging rights, there’s a great way to maximize your investment and experience the answer to these questions.