Rants and Raves
ERIK JOHNSON
"May I please have your attention? Will the owner of the black-on-black Mercedes-Benz CL63 AMG, license plate EFF-OFF, please attend to your car? It's still doing burnouts in the valet parking lot and we don't know how to stop it."
This, in essence, is why you would choose a CL63 over the slightly more expensive—by ten grand or so—CL600, a car which more or less equals this AMG in performance. You are a person who values hooliganism over haute couture. You are a person to whom sinister body kits whisper seductive come-ons like so much small talk. You want to be badass—and, boy, does the CL63 deliver. Me? I'm a CL63 kind of person, too.
DAVE VANDERWERP
AMG's invigorating 6.2-liter V-8 makes any Mercedes special and it also makes the 4800-pound CL keep pace with an Audi R8! The exhaust sings a lusty, yet refined song and all the appointments are first-class. These are some of the most comfortable seats (with numerous coddling adjustments and a massage feature) on the market, and it rides with what can only be described as six-figure composure. The only surprise was less rear-passenger space than I expected in an S-class-based coupe.
The CL63 is destined to be extremely rare, as I expect that most buyers in this price category will want the never-ending torque reserves of the twin-turbo V-12-powered CL600, especially since there's not a meaningful price difference between the two.
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