Insideline Reviews the 2012 C63 AMG Coupe

[erio]

This is the first review I have seen. They seem to like the car.

http://www.insideline.com/mercedes-b...rst-drive.html

[klammer]

Looks pretty nice, lets see how it does around the track.

[erio]

Originally Posted by klammer

Looks pretty nice, lets see how it does around the track.

+1. That may be the deal breaker for many.

[blankstar43]

seems a lil heavy at 3800ish lbs

[erio]

Chris Harris drives the new coupe.

http://www.evo.co.uk/carreviews/evoc...eo_review.html

[CAPSGOD]

An M3 is a better track car and marginally sharper in its responses, but the C63 is a way more pleasant everyday device. When it meets an RS5, I suspect it will pummel it, on anything less than compacted snow.

At least we know the RS5 is in last place

[lm1z]

This entire article is subjective.
I'm not a fan of the looks but would love to see how it performs head to head with the M.

[Nautik]

I'll have to see how it looks in person but the artists somehow screwed up how the wheels look compared to the car in addition to the whole quarter-panel needing to be redone. I mean they have all this styling going on else where on the car, and then there is the quarter-panel hanging out doing nothing...

That said, I suspect the M3 will be dominated performance-wise by this car. I know BMW will be rolling out their new M3 over the next 3-4 years but that doesn't do a damned bit a good right now does it? BMW really blew it with ZCP, they should have offered more.

Now I'm going to have to test drive this ugly Merc before I pull the trigger on a 2012 M3 just to make sure I hate the look of the Merc enough to give up that performance....