AMG® Performance Center

History of AMG®

Since its inception, AMG® engineers have been designing and handcrafting the best-performing engines in the world. Of course the only vehicles befitting these marvels of automotive excellence are made by Mercedes-Benz, the best luxury carmaker in the world.

AMG® was founded as a racing engine design group in 1967 by two former Mercedes-Benz engineers. It was initially an independent company that created modified versions of factory Mercedes-Benz vehicles and installed their own hand-built racing engines in them. The success of AMG® as a performance brand caught the attention of Mercedes-Benz executives, and a formal partnership began in 1993. Since that time, the tradition of hand-crafting each engine that goes into a Mercedes-AMG® vehicle has continued.

Each handcrafted AMG® engine is built with a single engineer dedicated to overseeing its assembly. It is this One Man, One Engine philosophy that has made AMG® engines the envy of the sport performance world. The designers, engineers and technicians at AMG® are performance enthusiasts, dedicated to building the most advanced turbocharged automotive powerplants possible.

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Current AMG® Engine Line

All modern AMG® engines are turbocharged masterpieces of automotive design and engineering. In fact, many of the designs found in performance engines around the world were developed by the team at AMG® . The current lineup of AMG® powerplants found in Mercedes-AMG® vehicles include:

2.0-liter inline turbo 4 cylinder

This engine is the most powerful of its kind in the world. Delivering up to 375-horsepower and 350 lb-ft. of torque, the 2.0-liter twin-scroll turbo is in a class of its own.

4.0-liter V8 biturbo

Capable of delivering more than 500-horsepower and 516 lb-ft. of torque, the AMG® 4.0-liter biturbo V8 is both compact and powerful. It is also the world’s first performance engine with the turbos located within the V of the engine.

5.5-liter V8 biturbo

With its spray-guided direct injection and twin turbochargers, the AMG® 5.5-liter V8 delivers up to 577-horsepower and 664 lb-ft of torque. It is also the engine found in more Mercedes-AMG® vehicles than any other.