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No need to ask what that is…
Nope. The new Mercedes G-Class is about as unmistakable as it gets, and the AMG G63 – with its 22in forged alloys, side exhausts and much AMG decoration – even more distinctive again.
Two reasons for that. One, what else looks like it? The new Toyota Land Cruiser perhaps, but its proportions aren’t as distinctly square as the G’s; the Defender adopted its mainstream-appeasing look long ago, and the Ineos Grenadier is still the new kid on the block.
And two, time. The G-Wagen recipe has been slow-cooked over almost half a century, beginning with 1979’s W460 and followed up by the W463 that ran for nearly 30 years until Mercedes decided it was time for a new generation in 2018.
Which makes the new W465 the… third generation? Fourth? Answers on a postcard, please.
The old G63 was bonkers. Is this?
Absolutely. Mercedes has stuck with the fire-breathing 4.0-litre twin-turbo V8 that made the 2018 car such a lunatic, choosing instead to spend its tokens improving the handling and dynamics. We’ll come to that in a tick.
So as before it hammers out 577bhp and 627lb ft, enough to propel its 2,640kg (!) of mass to 62mph from rest in just 4.4 seconds. Heavens above. The top speed is electronically limited to 137mph, although you can lift that to 149mph with an optional pack. 48v tech and an integrated starter generator provides an extra 20bhp and 148lb ft of torque in short bursts.
Bury the throttle and the nose veers up, and a beat later comes ungodly acceleration, heightened by the hot-vee soundtrack and a vague sense that slingshotting forwards in something this large and this heavy at this rate of knots isn’t entirely wise. It’s an animal. A wild, untamed animal.
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