CLS 63 AMG Shooting Brake (525 PS)

STORY

The production C219 CLS had its premiere at the Geneva show in March 2004, and the AMG version was announced by press release on 5 July 2004 and shown at Paris that autumn: the CLS 55 AMG, a supercharged V8 at 476 PS, in series from November 2004 and with customers in January 2005. The naturally aspirated 6.2-litre CLS 63 AMG arrived in 2006 at 514 PS. The C218 CLS 63 AMG had its world premiere in Los Angeles in November 2010 with the 5.5-litre M157 biturbo, gained a Shooting Brake estate in 2012, and in 2013 the CLS 63 AMG S reached 585 PS with 4MATIC as standard. Last came the CLS 53 4MATIC+, shown in Detroit on 15 January 2018 with a 435 PS straight-six and 48-volt assistance; no other AMG version followed on the C257, and CLS production ended in 2023.