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CLS63 AMG
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Fellow Comrades,
I am new to this forum as well as new to the BENZ world. Coming from driving an 07 E60 M5 to now driving a CLS63 AMG is a whole new & different experience. I miss the stiffness and roaring of the V10 but the beauty and vroom of the exhaust of a CLS63 makes up for it. I will not sit here and writea comparing essay on these two exotics but i must mention that they are the testament to the best 100% German Engineering. I have attached few pictures of my ex and my current. I look forward to a warm welcome from MB world as i once experienced from the BMW enthusiasts.
I am new to this forum as well as new to the BENZ world. Coming from driving an 07 E60 M5 to now driving a CLS63 AMG is a whole new & different experience. I miss the stiffness and roaring of the V10 but the beauty and vroom of the exhaust of a CLS63 makes up for it. I will not sit here and writea comparing essay on these two exotics but i must mention that they are the testament to the best 100% German Engineering. I have attached few pictures of my ex and my current. I look forward to a warm welcome from MB world as i once experienced from the BMW enthusiasts.
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Let me be the first to welcome you to the boards then: WELCOME 
Congrats on your CLS63 AMG.....
The CLS is truely a sexy car, and considered by most, the sexiest and best looking sedan yet
Congrats on your CLS63 AMG.....
The CLS is truely a sexy car, and considered by most, the sexiest and best looking sedan yet
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a car that gets very poor gas mileage.
Fellow Comrades,
I am new to this forum as well as new to the BENZ world. Coming from driving an 07 E60 M5 to now driving a CLS63 AMG is a whole new & different experience. I miss the stiffness and roaring of the V10 but the beauty and vroom of the exhaust of a CLS63 makes up for it. I will not sit here and writea comparing essay on these two exotics but i must mention that they are the testament to the best 100% German Engineering. I have attached few pictures of my ex and my current. I look forward to a warm welcome from MB world as i once experienced from the BMW enthusiasts.
I am new to this forum as well as new to the BENZ world. Coming from driving an 07 E60 M5 to now driving a CLS63 AMG is a whole new & different experience. I miss the stiffness and roaring of the V10 but the beauty and vroom of the exhaust of a CLS63 makes up for it. I will not sit here and writea comparing essay on these two exotics but i must mention that they are the testament to the best 100% German Engineering. I have attached few pictures of my ex and my current. I look forward to a warm welcome from MB world as i once experienced from the BMW enthusiasts.
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CLS63 Designo Edition, Hyundai Genesis 3.8 , Veloster Turbo, CLS500(Sold), E320 (SMOKED) R500 (Sold)
Also, what made you switch? What was deciding factor for you to come to the MB side?
Welcome to the board as well!
Welcome to the board as well!
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CLS63 AMG
I was actually shopping around for a Grey or White M5 and went to a dealer who had the Grey one. When i got there, i started the M5 and you could tell it was abused. But park right next to it was this Beauty. It was love at first sight. Plus my wife's opinion played a vital role. I still have to get use to using pedals on AMG as i am very comfortable with SMG and SMG was the best thing i have ever driven.
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E55 then E63, now back to an E55
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CLS55 2006, CLS 63S 2015
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Edit: don't get in a twist. I know in the real world it seems the E55 also makes 493bhp and is a 1/4 mile beast. Was just going by the good folks at MBUSA
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a car that gets very poor gas mileage.
At the time I was in the market to buy a new car I too considered the M5. Here's what I liked better about it than the CLS63:
- Better steering wheel.
- Better feedback from the steering wheel on how the suspension/car is behaving.
- HUD
- iDrive.
That's it. Everything else I like better on the CLS and like you, I think the exterior aesthetics is a lot more appealing than the M5.
- Better steering wheel.
- Better feedback from the steering wheel on how the suspension/car is behaving.
- HUD
- iDrive.
That's it. Everything else I like better on the CLS and like you, I think the exterior aesthetics is a lot more appealing than the M5.
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I have never quite figured this one out. So the 55 and 63 motors all put out the same HP and torque regardless of model or what Mercedes says?
I find it hard to believe a C63 and an SL63 are putting down the same.
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At the time I was in the market to buy a new car I too considered the M5. Here's what I liked better about it than the CLS63:
- Better steering wheel.
- Better feedback from the steering wheel on how the suspension/car is behaving.
- HUD
- iDrive.
That's it. Everything else I like better on the CLS and like you, I think the exterior aesthetics is a lot more appealing than the M5.
- Better steering wheel.
- Better feedback from the steering wheel on how the suspension/car is behaving.
- HUD
- iDrive.
That's it. Everything else I like better on the CLS and like you, I think the exterior aesthetics is a lot more appealing than the M5.
I never have understood why people like HUD? When I had an M6 it was just an annoyance. I hated the nonlinear nature of the thing. And a be very careful if you get a cracked windshield. I had to replace the front glass after a truck kicked up a big rock and was very specific about OEM glass when I had it in the shop. They put in the wrong glass (it must have been standard 6 series stuff or M6 without HUD) and the HUD distorted liked a circus mirror.
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CLS55 2006, CLS 63S 2015
63 has less trq i belive to ,bit more hp but non supercharger relient.
and transfered i was not throwing a fit
, if i used !!! then yes. Did not mean my post to sound evil 
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06 CLS55 AMG-all options sans Distronic; Carrera4S; 07 M5;Lexus GS300
Welcome and congrats.
Elsewhere on the CLS-AMG board I posted my earlier driving impressions re both the 07 M5 and the 06 55 I currently own. Having now driven the M5 some more, while it is a great car and the engine is simply ferocious and divine, especially in the Power/M mode, and the SMG works very well and shifts quickly when running the M5 hard/tracking it, in daily driving it simply is a damn annoyance, unnecessary and a PIA. I drove the M5 this w/e exclusively, and apart from the sheer pleasure of running the car hard and fast and adrenaline flowing and laughing while doing it, it was a pleasure to return to the more relaxed 55 and its autotranny today.
Again, the M5 is a more "technical" car than the M5 and less "alive" and communicative. Unlike others' opinions, I find the 55's steering wheel feel and control equal that of the M5's, although the 55's wimpy steering wheel itself need replacement. The M5's navi/GUI is contemporary, the COMAND v7.0/GUI legacy from a bygone era.
But there simply is no beating the exterior beauty and elagance of the CLS' pathbreaking exterior!!!
Elsewhere on the CLS-AMG board I posted my earlier driving impressions re both the 07 M5 and the 06 55 I currently own. Having now driven the M5 some more, while it is a great car and the engine is simply ferocious and divine, especially in the Power/M mode, and the SMG works very well and shifts quickly when running the M5 hard/tracking it, in daily driving it simply is a damn annoyance, unnecessary and a PIA. I drove the M5 this w/e exclusively, and apart from the sheer pleasure of running the car hard and fast and adrenaline flowing and laughing while doing it, it was a pleasure to return to the more relaxed 55 and its autotranny today.
Again, the M5 is a more "technical" car than the M5 and less "alive" and communicative. Unlike others' opinions, I find the 55's steering wheel feel and control equal that of the M5's, although the 55's wimpy steering wheel itself need replacement. The M5's navi/GUI is contemporary, the COMAND v7.0/GUI legacy from a bygone era.
But there simply is no beating the exterior beauty and elagance of the CLS' pathbreaking exterior!!!
