Powerful advance: The new AMG GLC 53 focuses on sporty performance with everyday comfort. Photo: Tobias Ade/Mercedes Benz AG/dpa-tmn
Affalterbach. AMG is working on the combustion engine variant of the Mercedes GLC and is launching a more powerful six-cylinder engine. As the sporty Mercedes offshoot announces, a combustion engine offensive is beginning with the further developed three-liter engine with now 330 kW/449 hp in the GLC 53, in which the engine range is being reorganized.
In the SUV available this summer, with up to 640 Nm, it enables a sprint from 0 to 100 km/h in 4.2 seconds at best and accelerates up to 270 km/h.
Electric sports cars are coming, plug-in hybrids are going
While AMG is currently preparing to launch its first independent electric sports car, they are throwing the unpopular plug-in hybrid in the GLC 63 and C 63 overboard and are also taking the four-cylinder in the GLC 43 from the range on this side of the compact class.
Instead, AMG boss Michael Schiebe promises that the new, particularly high-revving six-cylinder will be used in a number of other models after the GLC off-road vehicle.
In addition, AMG will soon have a new eight-cylinder, says Schiebe, referring to the revised four-liter engine that Mercedes has just presented in the refreshed S-Class. According to AMG, the 395 kW/538 hp is definitely not over yet.
The twin turbo could have its first use, for example, in an extreme version of the CLE, which AMG is currently developing in a small edition for the so-called Mythos series. And the upcoming facelift for the large off-road vehicles GLE and GLS also calls for this engine in the 63 variants.