rev your engines, today I'm gonna talk about a Mercedes that I would actually drive
now just to be truthful I know everybody's
gonna say I'm a hypocrite now cuz I'm always saying why shouldn't buy a
Mercedes well guess what Scotty drives Mercedes all the
time it's after I fix them yes they're fun to drive around I'm not
arguing that but I'd rather be on the end where I fix the cars get paid a lot of
money and then drive them around I certainly wouldn't want to be the one
paying to have my Mercedes fixed so yes I'd Drive them all the time but it's
Road testing to see if anything else is wrong with them and since the modern
ones break down a lot when they get a little bit older I've got a lot of them
around now the Mercedes that I'd like to be driving around is it 2019
mercedes-amg GT 63s and to understand why you need to know a little about AMG
and Mercedes original AMG was a company that modified Mercedes to make them go
fast now AMG was originally a high-performance company the modified
mercedes-benz for people that wanted him faster handling better in 1999 Daimler
Chrysler took a controlling interest in AMG and then in 2005 they became the
whole owners of it I got some mercedes figured hey if these guys are gonna soup
up our cars why are they making all the profit we'll just buy the company and
then we'll take all the problem ourselves so now that AMG model Mercedes
are generally the highest horsepower best handling of each particular class
they make various ones now the AMG company is not technically called
mercedes-amg GmbH yeah another mouthful hey the Germans had
great ideas for their tanks tiger Panther leopard why are they naming these
companies and stupids names I guess the Germans have lost their
imagination with these things they're great cars to drive around and but what
a stupid name now if you're gonna buy the fancy version with all the bells
and whistles you're gonna one hundred and eighty nine thousand
dollars not to me that's kind of absurd because that's about three times when I
paid for my whole house and lot here in downtown Houston
now since AMG started out designing testing racing engines then they moved
on to and starring them and modifying mercedes-benz cars to make them better
they know what they're doing it comes to speed but I went to a Formula One race
years ago talked to the Mercedes guys and they said well for the cars that
they ran that year it was cost of about five hundred million dollars so money is
no object with these people but if it is for you there's a range of AMG cars now
they all have various modifications like polished heads fancy wheels fancy
suspension systems and lately they've been going more into suspension because
originally people said hey they're great straight line cars a lot of power but
they don't have a handling of a car that has that kind of power they've gone into
that and make them handle a lot better than they originally did you just start
with their bottom line AMG the e53 it's only about seventy four thousand dollars
and then let's say you want to go mid-priced with an AMG Mercedes you can
get a GT 53 for about a hundred thousand clams pretty high-tech it's got a
six-cylinder engine that's turbocharged an old fashioned inline six and it has a and
it puts out a total of 429 horsepower all
you can get a CLS 53 variant that's 20 grand less it still has the 429 horsepower
save yourself 20 grand on that one they take engineering to the highest degree as
for is it a wise investment well no of course not but yes they're fun to drive
I love driving them when I'm done fixing them when someone else is paying me to
drive their car around and I find the technology fascinating they really went
in design engines and transmissions that can really fly and lately the past few
years they've really upgraded the handling and suspension so there are
always look serious vehicles for riding around in but they didn't handle quite
as well as the competitors now they got a lot better
handling than they used to have I'm sure you're paying for it there's no arguing
that 189 thousand dollars for a car just know that their resale values just like
other Mercedes Benzes they drop like stones as they age that's just the way
those things are and generally anybody who buys one is beating the heck out of
it it's kind of like what I always tell people they say oh I want to buy a
challenger with a Hellcat engine I can't afford a new one something about used
one and I say you might rethink the whole deal of it because the guys who
buy them generally they're doing burnouts they're often very worn out by
the time you get them I've had customers who bought used AMG and after a couple
years of driving them tens of thousands of dollars having repairs gone they said
well I got that out of my system I'll never buy another one of those things
they are really fun to drive and hey scotty here is all waiting to fix it when
it breaks down, so if you never want to miss another one of my new car repair
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