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Originally Posted by OSee
You can disagree. But you're wrong.
False equivalency BS. What Mercedes does with the current 63/65 and the previous 55/65 is completely different from what they are doing now with the C43/E53 and C63/E63. As 55/63/65 (the OG C43 W202) are all ACTUAL AMG cars. Pop the hood of any 55/63/65 and they have AMG plates on the engine with the guys name who "hand assembled" it.
Now pop the hood of any 43 or 53 (CLS53 included) car. Spoiler alert: no AMG plate. Because the car comes off a mass assembly line and never sees the AMG factory.
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Yep, this is correct, even AMG has said that the only true AMG engines at the moment are the 45 2.0 (M139) and 63 4.0 (M177/178) because these are the models that feature hand-built engines. The 45/63 are the two current levels of AMG cars (similar to OP's reference of 55/63 and 63/65), with the 43/53 cars being similar to M-Performance cars, using regular engines that have in some way shape or form been enhanced for performance with upgrades elsewhere, but not the same as a full fat AMG/M car.