Bye Bye rear-wheel drive - Mercedes AMG soon only with four-wheel drive

For AMG fans, this news won't necessarily be the best. Mercedes has decided that ALL future AMG models will come on the market with 4Matic all-wheel drive as standard. This means saying goodbye to the classic rear-wheel drive after decades, as AMG boss Tobias Moers confirmed to the English magazine "Autocar". The decision would have been made with regard to customer requirements and the internal evaluation of the order history of the last few years also shows that the all-wheel drive was ordered more and more often. So an easy decision. In view of the partially well over 600 PS & +1.000 NM torque, not really surprising as we find. It is becoming more and more difficult to get the performance on the road, which M-GmbH has also noticed the new one M5 F90 Offer with four-wheel drive.

Although this can be optionally switched off, perhaps something similar is also conceivable for all new 4Matic AMG models. The Mercedes dominates this technique shows the current E63 AMG already has this feature. The drive of the front axle can be completely deactivated here. To what extent the four-wheel drive, however, will fit the character of an AMG GT, will be seen. On the C63 AMG or even the big S 63 / 65, the rear-wheel drive will hardly miss anyone. And there are also new plans for the future of the V8. Current spearhead is known to be the Mercedes-AMG X 290 (GT 4-door coupe) whose M 177 engine makes impressive 639 horsepower. The 4-liter big engine is supposed to save get more performance but be coupled in the future with a plug-in hybrid version. Less power will certainly not result.