{"id":214544,"date":"2010-01-22T17:29:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T22:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/01\/22\/report-amg-pondering-rear-drive-performance-version-of-small-fr\/"},"modified":"2010-01-22T17:29:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-22T22:29:00","slug":"report-amg-pondering-rwd-performance-version-of-small-fwd-benz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/214544","title":{"rendered":"Report: AMG pondering RWD performance version of small FWD Benz"},"content":{"rendered":"

Filed under: Mercedes-Benz<\/a>, Rumormill<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"When we think of AMG, the first thing that comes to mind is a herculean 6.3-liter V8 engine<\/a> that delivers hellacious thrust. We don’t give rear-wheel drive much think time because with Mercedes-Benz<\/a> and AMG, it’s a given. That will change for Mercedes in the next couple years with the introduction of a new family of small, premium front-wheel-drive vehicles. <\/p>\n

A report from Motor Trend<\/em> claims that the next Mercedes A-Class and B-Class are reportedly among five new FWD vehicles based on the German automaker’s forthcoming MFA platform. But while FWD platforms may be essential to Mercedes-Benz’s goal of 1.5 million vehicles per year by 2015, MT<\/em> tells us that AMG wants nothing of it. AMG will reportedly re-engineer the MFA platform for rear-wheel drive for future performance applications. That’s right, you’ve read that correctly-re-engineer a front-wheel-drive platform for rear-wheel-drive fun. That sounds expensive and a bit impractical to us, but apparently the idea has legs within the hallowed halls of Mercedes’ performance unit.<\/p>\n

We figure the 6.3-liter<\/a> is out of the question too, and MT says insiders at AMG insist that a turbocharged four-cylinder engine could be tuned to deliver the over the top torque and horsepower that customers have come to expect. Word is that a decision to modify the MFA platform for RWD is due by the end of the month, and we know what we’re hoping for.<\/p>\n

[Source: Motor Trend<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Report: AMG pondering RWD performance version of small FWD Benz<\/a> originally appeared on Autoblog<\/a> on Fri, 22 Jan 2010 17:29:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Filed under: Mercedes-Benz, Rumormill When we think of AMG, the first thing that comes to mind is a herculean 6.3-liter V8 engine that delivers hellacious thrust. We don’t give rear-wheel drive much think time because with Mercedes-Benz and AMG, it’s a given. That will change for Mercedes in the next couple years with the introduction […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}