You Won’t Believe How this $200 Mercedes AMG C42 Performs on a Dyno!

This car looks horrible inside and out, but it sure does pack a punch under the hood.

Today, we’re going to define what the term “more bang for your buck” truly means.

Late last summer, a YouTube channel called Legit Street Cars scored what is a truly ridiculous deal on a 1999 Mercedes AMG C43. Found via one of those Facebook Marketplace ads, Alex from Legit Street Cars was able to negotiate the cost of the vehicle down to an astounding $200. Not $2,000. Not $20,000. Two hundred dollars!

After the purchase, he shows in great detail in a video on his channel, a breakdown of what was good and bad with this $200 C43. Long story short, the exterior and interior of the car was completely trashed, but the hand-rebuilt engine ran surprisingly well for almost 20 years old with 178,000 miles.

So, what do you do with a $200 C43 that runs great but can never be remodeled? Well, not much, honestly. But you can test the internals!

Knowing full well the only really redeeming quality to this ugly, Frankensteined C43 was the engine, Alex took the vehicle, in a new video, to his local performance testing center and put it on a dynamometer. Normally, with an older car of this caliber, you could expect pretty minimal degradation of the overall horsepower and torque. However, with this C43, complete with hacked together internals, faulty wiring, broken fans, and a laundry list of other issues, there is no way this engine would even come close to respectable performance, right?

Well, you see, this is where you would be wrong.