Figuratively, the new 6.3 connects AMG with its glorious past and the mother company’s past. Its name is symbolic, even if the symbolism follows a slightly convoluted path back to the 1960s.

In the mid-1960s, as the automobile industry was experiencing something of a renaissance, two Mercedes engineers, Hans Werner Aufrecht and Erhard Melcher, began working on a new racing engine meant to ...

Aufrecht, Melcher, and Großaspach — better known as AMG—has a long and distinguished history as the in-house hot rod shop at Mercedes-Benz. Before it officially became a part of the Daimler empire, ...

Over half a century ago, AMG was started as an autonomous engineering firm exclusively dedicated to enhancing the performance of Mercedes-Benz vehicles. The tale unfolds in the 1960s when two ...

The performance division of Mercedes-Benz, AMG’s influence touches nearly every model in the automaker’s lineup.