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Mercedes-Benz S-Class vs Mercedes-Benz AMG GT

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Mercedes-Benz S-Class
Mercedes-Benz S-Class

$169,800 - $189,800

2021 price

Mercedes-Benz AMG GT
Mercedes-Benz AMG GT

$294,077 - $399,900

2024 price

Summary

2021 Mercedes-Benz S-Class
2024 Mercedes-Benz AMG GT
Safety Rating

Engine Type
Twin Turbo V6, 3.0L

Fuel Type
Premium Unleaded Petrol

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Fuel Efficiency
8.4L/100km (combined)

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Seating
5

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Dislikes
  • Price of entry prohibitive for most
  • 3D instrumentation can make you woozy
  • A tad conservative in design

  • Definitely heavy
  • Less practical than you'd expect
  • EV range less than helpful
2021 Mercedes-Benz S-Class Summary

It's only in the running for the title of world's best luxury car. No biggie here, then.

Like Rolex and Concorde, S-Class has become a byword for ultimate, and deserved or not, the Mercedes-Benz defines its segment despite the best efforts of the BMW 7 Series, Audi A8, Lexus LS and (sadly now-defunct) Jaguar XJ, as well as pointing the way forward with new technologies that eventually trickle down to more proletarian models.

Replacing the half-million selling W222 unveiled in 2013, the W223 is the latest in a long line since the first W187 Ponton debuted in 1951, and includes the famous ‘Finnies' and Stroke-8 models that followed immediately afterwards, but it is the 1972 W116 that really set the template.

Now, seven generations in, the 2021 S-Class is all-new again, with progressive safety and interior features that should help keep it Australia's bestselling full-sized upper-luxury sedan.

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2024 Mercedes-Benz AMG GT Summary

The fastest-accelerating and most powerful series production AMG to date isn't some slinky supercar, it's a truly enormous four-door, four-seat barge that weighs just a smidge under 2.4 tonnes.

Surprised? Welcome to the wonderful world of electrification, one where manufacturers can produce physics-bending performance by combining an internal combustion engine (ICE) with an electric motor, just so long as they're willing to put up with some extra weight.

And so it is with the Mercedes-AMG GT63S E Performance Coupe, which is a plug-in hybrid, though perhaps not quite as you know them.

Efficiency is not the name of the game here. Performance, and lots of it, is the goal. And, thanks to the combination of a twin-turbo V8 engine and a powerful electric motor, this big beast delivers plenty of it.

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