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      04-25-2021, 01:35 PM   #190
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Originally Posted by OSee View Post
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.
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.
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