There are new notes from Stuttgart. While AMG is developing a new V8 engine, Mercedes promises to keep the top models' V12 engine alive.
When Mercedes presented its annual accounts for 2024 last week, two very interesting pieces of news emerged – neither the V8 nor the V12 engine are going anywhere.
In fact, AMG in Affalterbach has been told to develop a new V8 engine. That was not the plan just a few years ago.
In 2023, the Mercedes C63 AMG will get a 4-cylinder hybrid engine with a displacement of two liters. Mercedes believed this was the right way to go.
That is, until they doubted. Now it is rumored that the new 8-cylinder engine that is on the way from AMG will first and foremost go into a facelift of the C63. AMG would also like to confirm that the engine is on the way. Read more about it here.
Another thing is that the 6-liter V12 engine can and should be kept alive 'in selected markets', as the Mercedes top executive describes it.
Mercedes puts its largest engine in the Maybach S600 and the armored S-Class Guard. In addition, AMG supplies a version of the engine to Pagani in Italy.
But the Stuttgart brand is actually the only one from Germany that even has a V12 engine on its program. BMW put their V12s in the grave in 2022, and at Audi it ended with a W12 when the then A8 was retired in 2017.
Back at Mercedes, the latest news confirms that the V8 engine has at least been developed to also meet current and upcoming emissions requirements in Europe.
This is possible because the engine has been developed to fit AMG's first ever in-house developed platform. The one the Germans call AMG.EA.
Management did not discuss the status of Mercedes' 3-liter inline-six in last year's financial statements. But fans of that engine can rest assured that it is unlikely to disappear now that a new V8 engine is on the way.
Mercedes is not the only one keeping the combustion engine alive and throwing resources at it. Porsche announced earlier this month that it is ready to spend 800 million euros on the development of the combustion engine.
The amount, which corresponds to 6 billion Danish kroner, will be used by Porsche because the brand's strategy with electric cars has failed.Read more about it here .
