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5 Fast, Powerful Mercedes Models That Never Wore an AMG Badge
Key Takeaways
- Mercedes-Benz bought AMG specifically to convert its luxury cars into proper sports cars, adding power, sharper response, carbon fiber, and hand-built engines.
- Range-topping AMG models use engines assembled by a single technician under the division's "one man, one engine" philosophy, a key part of what the badge represents.
- AMG was fully absorbed into Mercedes in 1999, yet Mercedes has continued building very quick cars that never carried the AMG badge.
- The SLR McLaren had no AMG badging despite using a hand-built AMG engine; McLaren handled the carbon-fiber monocoque and final assembly in Woking, England.
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