AMG GT 63 S Dusts Porsche 911 Carrera S in Drag Race
There was a time when nobody in a four-door Mercedes would dare race a 911 but those days are long gone.
As you likely already know, the Mercedes AMG GT 63 S is a pretty darn fast machine. Sitting atop MB’s four-door model range, the rather attractive sedan (eh, coupe) is also quite powerful, packing a 4.0-liter, twin-turbo V8 that produces 639 horsepower. Flowing through a 9-speed MCT transmission, that’s enough gusto to propel the GT 63 S 4Matic to 60 miles-per-hour in just 3.2-seconds. It’s also the record lap holder for the fastest four-seat production car around the legendary Nurburgring. So you could say that it’s pretty darn quick.
And yes, pitting it against a Porsche 911 Carrera S isn’t terribly fair. After all, this version of the 911 suffers from a pretty large power deficit here. It has to make due with only 443 hp from its 3.0-liter flat-six engine, and takes a full 4.0-seconds flat to hit 60 miles-per-hour. So it should surprise no one that when Car Magazine pitted the Porsche against a Mercedes AMG GT 63 S 4Matic, it didn’t really stand a chance.
But then again, fair doesn’t matter in the world of drag racing. All that matters is who wins. If some person in their Carrera S wants to try their luck against a Mercedes four-door, that’s their prerogative. It’s just your duty to show them that their iconic sports car can’t keep up with a modern-day, four-passenger, four-door coupe/sedan.
And that’s precisely what happens here. The Mercedes and Porsche jump off the line pretty much at the same time. But the GT 63 quickly pulls ahead of the 911, creating a rather large gap by the time both cross the halfway mark. And by the end of the quarter-mile, the Porsche is nothing more than a small object in the Mercedes’ rear view mirror.
Unfair? Sure. But that’s the way it goes in the real world. That person in the 911 beside you likely isn’t going to be able to resist the temptation to take an “easy” race against some four-door. And when they do, they’ll learn a rather important lesson. As we Mercedes fans already know, the days when four-door cars were slow has long since passed. These days, it’s all about what’s under the hood that ultimately matters.
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