DRIVEN: 2019 Mercedes-AMG G63 review – high-rise athlete

We are terrorising the south of France. On the sinewy tarmac snaking through the prized vineyards, this two-and-a-half-tonne behemoth is lapping up everything I’m throwing at it. My co-driver and I are gobsmacked by the way it’s devouring the corners, like raging teenagers devouring Jägerbombs on a Friday night out. The V8 snarls through the crackling side-exit exhausts, the speeds rise and fall as this 585 hp skyscraper continues to defy the laws of physics. A small town – one of the myriad spread out across the rural countryside – looms in the horizon, and I hit the brakes to avoid tripping the speed camera. And breathe. Alright, enough pummelling the blacktop. We’re pushing for time so I swing onto the onramp and head out on the highway. Nicki Minaj isn’t usually my kind of jam, but here it feels entirely appropriate, and we cruise along to Trinidad’s finest export like a pack of new-money rappers as the sun sets behind us. We roll into the gorgeous fortress surrounding the historic city of Carcassonne with plenty of time to spare before dinner. That’s the long and short of the new Mercedes-AMG G 63 – it makes you feel like a… Read full this story

DRIVEN: 2019 Mercedes-AMG G63 review – high-rise athlete have 303 words, post on paultan.org at November 15, 2018. This is cached page on Konitono. If you want remove this page, please contact us.