- A lot of times, people get a little bit weird
about talking about certain cars.
They're like, (hiss) you know?
Gate-keeping cars is a thing, but it's no fun,
mostly because people are going to
find out about them sooner or later anyway,
so what does it actually matter?
The Cressida's a great car. (car honks)
Also, also, 99% of people that even
like Euro cars are drooling over 911's and E30's,
and they aren't really going to love this
four-door Euro like those other ones,
because, I don't know, they just
don't like to have fun.
Anyways, there's a couple, two, three, Euro cars out there
that may have been a little bit under the radar
in terms of cars that you could
potentially build in 2021, all right?
2021 brings some new, great things,
like the end of 2020!
That's it.
As we begin to kick off 2021, though,
what better way than to start with a car that,
from the sides, could potentially be
mistaken as a typical Mercedes Benz C300,
a car that comes with more doors for more...
Space for car parts and things like that!
All right, a European legend that not many know about,
but once they do, they ultimately end up snagging one,
because you really just don't have to
think too hard about it
once you realize that you don't have to
pay an arm and a leg anymore,
because depreciation is a very real thing
on Euro cars, okay?
You don't have to talk about the reliability
and the maintenance, you don't have to
talk about that with this car!
It's, it's, it's...
You don't need it.
Ladies and gentlemen, coming from the company
that almost builds cars off of their depreciation curve,
we're going to be talking about
you wanting to own a Mercedes Benz C63 AMG.
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and pay it off with your tax return.
Now, of course, you've had the entire year of 2020
to finish your car build, and if you haven't,
and you've still been stuck at home,
and you're still saying that you're going to get it done,
I hate to break it to you, but you're going to want
to actually start working on it.
Otherwise, who are you kidding, in all honesty?
The C stands for Charming,
and the 63 stands for the amount of seconds
that pass between a new structure fire
in the United States and now.
Blow out your candles, okay?
Stop keeping those things on.
Put 'em on top of the oven,
and then you don't have to worry about them
starting a fire, usually,
but then you'll just burn them out.
C63, all right, the Mercedes Benz C63
would be produced within the Mercedes C-Class,
W204 generation, from 2008-2015,
and while there are other C63 generations out there,
we're going to focus most specifically on this one,
because this one is the hot tamale,
the nuggets with the buffalo sauce, okay?
This would be the very first AMG Mercedes
that was designed from the ground up,
and the question would be asked, why?
Because it needed to give the M3
a proper run for its money,
which meant AMG wasn't just going to
slap a big-ass motor in there
and slap its rear end and just call it John,
oh no, it was actually going to
redefine its previously stereotypical
under steering, complete lack of control,
for something that was a little less,
less out of control, and less raunchy power.
AMG was going to put a suit on for this party,
and the C63 Saloon was the first time
they ever truly got tailored up.
This was a car that really was rebuilt from the ground up.
The C63 AMG would come with a borrowed suspension
from the CLK63 AMG black series,
a revised dynamic steering,
and more harsh body lines than
Billy Hargrove in Stranger Things.
Damn guy made mustaches cool again,
and I just don't know if I'm seeing that.
I'm not sure I want that to pass into 2021.
Not that I'm jealous!
AMG would then take their M156 engine
borrowed from Mercedes Benz and inject it into a
tiny, little baby chassis,
resulting in a 6.2 liter V8 with 450 horsepower
to be at your beck and call whenever you decided to pass,
or whenever you decided a pass was required on the highway.
Now, because AMG refuses to provide people like you
and people like me, humans,
with a stick next to your kneecap,
the C63 would come with a
seven-speed automatic transmission.
Now, the earlier generations are a little bit rough,
but you could still drive the living crap out of them.
However, if you're looking to actually pick one up,
try to get to the newest generation,
where they start introducing
a little bit of faster shifting.
Now, listen, I'm going to be real here, okay?
AMG just never really did manual transmissions.
They did a few platforms way back,
but when they tried, they really just didn't enjoy it.
AMG, at one point, chose to focus on the motor first,
the transmission second, and automatics
could just do it better for them,
and I'm sorry, okay?
It's just a thing, I'm sure there's a
swap company out there somewhere.
If there's swap companies for 430's,
there's swap companies for AMG's.
Because of its modes, weights,
redefined suspension, and massive motor,
you could actually get it, like,
to 60 miles an hour from a dead stop
in under four seconds, which was
pretty insane for the car at the time.
You could reach a quarter mile in twelve seconds,
and if that brochure-reading fact doesn't impress you,
the C63 AMG would see a performance package introduced
that kicked it up to 480 horsepower
and 443 foot pounds of torque at 5,000 RPM's,
ladies and gentlemen, that's a
(blows raspberry) banger, all right?
Known as the option P30, which, get this if you can,
you've also got a safer suspension,
a limited slip differential, Alcantara steering wheel,
and the top speed limiter raised,
because apparently that's a thing, especially with Mercedes.
They even came out with a P31 a few short years later,
which had even more fun options.
It had an updated tune, lightweight forged pistons,
rods, crank shaft, the works,
and that one is a little bit more expensive right now,
but you should still grab it if you have the budget for it.
If you're a baller baller, pick that one up.
So, out of the gate, the C63,
was it enough to crush the M3?
To finally crush the age-old competition?
Did the V8 naturally-aspirated motor
finally find a W in the books right out of the gate?
Especially against the car,
that for some reason or another,
just never seems to lose.
No, not really, it didn't.
The M3 still won.
It wasn't until the C63 AMG found itself a bit more power,
a serrated induced transmission,
and some development packages
to up the anty at the cost of the potential warranty issues
that the C63 AMG was given from Mercedes Benz at the time.
But what the C63 AMG did manage to do
was make a name for itself into a new market.
A car that, by and large, was an equivalent
of, like, a Hellcat in Euro clothing, all right?
A market that's the equivalent of hating the Patriots,
but loving whoever they played against.
I mean, pretty much, this was the car for those people.
Sports reference, that's all I've got.
It's like, when you don't like the first place person,
but you love the second place person.
But we're not here to talk about sports ball!
Just like we're not here to talk about
the history of one of these short-nose,
rear-happy-ending cars that usually end up
dangerously with you wrapped around a tree
or very close to one,
because you decided to turn off traction control,
because you thought it was fun
when you found out what dyno mode is.
We're here to talk about a car
that's pretty obtainable for most people
if you save up for a year or two,
because they depreciate like rocks in an ocean.
We're here to talk about you wanting to
own one of these bad boys.
So, you want a C63 AMG?
Well, set down your depreciation jokes
and grab your favorite tire company,
because you're going to want to actually figure out
what it's like to own one of these
in the next couple, two, three minutes, all right?
You and me, we're going for a ride.
Buckle down, seat up, let's go.
Put up the chair, put up the pageant,
put on the mask, put down...
All right, let's just get into it.
Owning a C63 AMG is a bit like
buying a Siberian Husky as your first dog.
You can do it, but you're going to be in for a ride
without really ever really being prepared for it,
especially if it's your first Siberian Husky,
because they are a lot.
The C63 is a behemoth of a car.
It's fast, it behaves well, it's connected to the road.
It's a Mercedes, so it's nice,
unlike some of the other things
we have a tendency to love.
It depreciated harder than the hype of the slap bracelets,
and just because it's not expensive anymore
doesn't mean maintaining it is cheap.
C63's still are a doozy to keep up
if you don't get one that has
all of its maintenance records.
The C63, therefore, is the Siberian Husky of cars.
If you're thinking about owning a Siberian Husky,
you should just grab a two-year-old toddler
and take care of that for two weeks,
and then see if you still want one.
Common issues around these cars,
and probably the biggest,
is most definitely the infamous head bolt issue
that crushed the car's resale value from 2008 to 2011.
The bolts were, essentially, they were just
made incorrectly, and when they do fail,
the entire head gasket fails, and you get
a lovely coolant mixture of oil and coolant,
and it is, it'll drop your heart, all right?
It was a little problem with the block, too,
and then you'd have to replace
the whole dang kit, bang, and caboodle.
Above all else, though, if you don't
listen to anything else in the video,
and you still want one of these,
make sure that you check that this was done
if you plan on buying one.
Otherwise, you're going to end up buying another motor.
Now, the entire point of the depreciation curve
is that you can pick up a 450 horsepower car
that's a Mercedes that's relatively
still good-looking for, like, 15 grand,
but if you have to take another 10 grand
and put it back into a motor
because you didn't look at that head bolt issue,
you should've just bought, like, a new generation E63.
Used cars can also have some camshaft wear over time
that's caused by the cam lifter failure,
but outside of that, you should have
a generally good time with this car
as long as the rest of the maintenance is taken care of.
And, if you can, get a private purchase inspection.
Now, don't lean on it completely,
but definitely get one if you want to know
the ins and outs of the car before you pick one up.
Don't even question it, though, when it comes down to
the maintenance on AMG cars,
and this generally goes for
European performance cars as a whole,
because people like you and people like me
have a tendency to think every car is perfect,
but that's the problem, is that these cars
can sometimes be a massive pain in the butt
if you don't have the maintenance records.
But the real thing that people like us care about
would be, can... you... modify... it?
The answer is yes.
My son, you can, okay?
The W204 body style and engine work is iconic,
and the motor is, like, actually
very, very well put together, okay,
and you can easily throw a couple, two, three modifications
to make this car even better!
I said it, and I'll say it again!
You can do it, and you can do it better.
The C63 AMG is a classic European performance car, okay?
So most stick with a double five split spoke style wheel
like the Rohana RFX11, HRE 590's, Rohana RF2's,
or the Ferrada FR2's if you're really looking to
jump into something fancy,
but mostly monoblock wheels.
These wheels are generally 19's to 20's,
and they look best with the European styling.
Now, tires usually have a tendency
to stick around Nitto, and suspension will
always almost swap over to air suspension.
That's usually limited to the Air Lift air suspension 3P.
Now, some people do coilovers, but mostly,
people end up throwing air suspension on these cars
because it's going to look better, perform better,
a lot of times it's easier on the car,
and some of them, especially on the E55's and E63's,
start getting into the air suspension from the factory,
which means these are pretty much built to just
take on the air suspension as a whole,
and it's just, mwah, chef's kiss, all right?
Outside of wheels, tires, and suspension,
we want to jump into some after market exhaust, son,
because these things sound like
a (blows raspberry) train!
Either through some alternative AMG mufflers,
or a different system altogether,
these cars sound incredible with an
after market suspension, and because...
Oh, not suspension, exhaust.
Because of the displacement, the boar size,
and the overall length of the car,
the C63 AMG has one of the
best sounding exhaust notes out there.
Pair it with an intake and tune,
and you'll have a car that sounds
just a little bit like a frightened ZO6,
but with a little more finement, all right?
They brought wine instead of, like,
I don't know, Fireball, at the party on Friday, okay?
Something people will miss, though, is a TCU tune,
which is possible, that's a transmission tune,
but, mostly supported by the community
and not largely by an after market company,
so if you are looking to pick one up,
definitely jump into the forums,
where you will see a ton of people
are supporting these cars through, like,
small, low-key business products.
If you're looking to pick up a C63, though,
maintenance is always key,
but from there, pretty much, you can go nuts.
The car is a European, shortened Corvette.
It's hilarious.
It sounds great, it's not terribly priced,
and the motor is honestly just one from a generation past.
Probably one of my favorite motors,
right next to the E55 AMG motor,
because it is just iconic in its own way.
Just be sure you practice a bit before you show off,
especially with doing burnouts and things,
donuts, drifting, all that sort of stuff,
because there's a reason that 50% of them
seem to have rebuilt titles.
But, what do you think about the C63 AMG?
Let us know below, and of course,
let us know what you want us to cover next up.
I don't know what that was.
If you're looking for after market wheels,
tires, or suspension, be sure to hit us up
over at fitmentindustries.com.
I'm Alex from Fitment Industries,
and we will see you later, peace.
Going this way, because of my microphone.
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