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Trying to decide between G63 and G550, few questions

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Old Aug 25, 2019 | 12:23 PM
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Trying to decide between G63 and G550, few questions

The G550 comes with all season tires whereas G63 comes with high performance tires. I live in the Northeast. I'd like to have dealer just swap out high performance for all seasons and use year round. Anyone else doing this?

Does the exhaust sound similar on both as long as you order the AMG performance exhaust on the G550?

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Old Aug 25, 2019 | 02:25 PM
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The initial batch of G63's came with Good year tires but after that, all G550 and G63 models came with Pirelli Scorpion All seasons tires. I got My G550 in Nov 2018 and my G63 in April 2019 and both have the Pirelli Scorpion all-season tires which have been very good in rain and the little bit of snow we encountered in NJ this past winter.
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Originally Posted by cars1234
The G550 comes with all season tires whereas G63 comes with high performance tires. I live in the Northeast. I'd like to have dealer just swap out high performance for all seasons and use year round. Anyone else doing this?

Does the exhaust sound similar on both as long as you order the AMG performance exhaust on the G550?

Thanks.
With regards to the exhaust...no the G63 still sounds significantly deeper, throatier, and burbles/resonates more than the G550 with the AMG performance exhaust.
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Old Aug 27, 2019 | 09:31 PM
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Exhaust even in normal mode is significantly higher and resonates a bit during gear transitions especially up shifts - must be an amg thing
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