The best from Affalterbach – Mer

BETWEEN THE POWERF Choosing between two of the executive sports power industry’s finest.

If you have a high-performance motoring itch that must be scratched regardless of what type of vehicle you want to drive – be it a large SUV, to a hot hatch, to a fullsize sedan, and everything in between – then Mercedes-AMG has a vehicle for you.

Seriously, the brains trust at Mercedes-AMG are not afraid to put extremely powerful engines in seemingly unlikely vehicles, and then pin an AMG badge to it.

And it works. I mean both BMW and Audi, with their M and RS models do not have a model specific answer to the S65 AMG, nor do they have an answer for their GLC 63 S AMG that was just launched.

With more than R5 million tied up in just two vehicles, the S65 and the GLC 63 S, I headed off to Gerotek to test the performance capabilities of these machines from Affalterbach in Germany. I started with the S65, the pinnacle of the Mercedes-AMG sedan range.

The third generation of the Mercedes-AMG S65 is the epitome of executive sports power, setting new standards as the most powerful vehicle in its segment of the market. Innovations including the head-up display and the touchpad represent further enhancements in terms of comfort and safety.

You get an AMG sports exhaust system with two chrome-plated twin tailpipe trim elements in unique V12 design integrated into the bumper as a clear indicator, both visually and audibly, of the impressive power and performance potential of the vehicle.

Talking of which, the car runs a 6.0-litre V12 biturbo engine that