2024 Mercedes-AMG GLC63 PHEV Peels Back Disguise To Show Its Coupe Colors

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The Mercedes-AMG C63 S E Performance is already connected merchantability successful astir of the satellite successful some sedan and wagon forms, but since Mercedes opted to bring lone the sedan to the U.S. this year, AMG fans looking for thing with a small much practicality are going to beryllium abbreviated connected options.

That’s wherever the GLC 63 comes in. The all-new GLC lands successful showrooms aboriginal this year, erstwhile again with a prime of upright SUV oregon fastback coupe designs, some underpinned by the aforesaid level arsenic the blistery C-Class, and utilizing the aforesaid PHEV motor and all-wheel thrust transmission.

We’ll recap those drivetrain features successful a minute, but archetypal let’s instrumentality a look astatine what these astir caller spy shots show. Previous prototypes featured camouflage wrapper connected the the front, backmost and the rear doors and quarters panels obscuring the signifier of the model line. But this 1 peels backmost the broadside disguise leaving lone the chemoreceptor and process covered, though adjacent the beforehand bumper is little heavy obscured and clues america successful to however the last GLC 63 volition look.

Mercedes revealed the non-AMG GLC coupe successful March truthful we already cognize that it adopts the aforesaid laid-back cardinal touchscreen, integer instrumentality clump and 5 squircle aerial vents arsenic the C-Class sedan. And fixed that we’ve already seen the C63 sedan you don’t request a crystal shot to ideate however an AMG mentation of the GLC volition look with sports seats and a part-Alcantara steering instrumentality rim.

Neither bash we request immoderate mystic abilities to conjecture that the GLC 63 volition travel successful the C63’s downsizing footsteps and swaps its charismatic twin-turbo 4.0-liter V8 for an electrified 2.0-liter four-cylinder motor that volition marque up successful horsepower what it loses successful personality. If AMG drops the nonstop C63 bundle into the GLC 63, the SUV volition leap from the 469 hp (476 PS) of the 2021 car (it wasn’t disposable for 2022-23) to 671 hp (680 PS), unneurotic with a stonking 752 lb-ft (1,020 Nm) of torque.

A 201 hp (150 kW / 204 PS) electrical centrifugal wrong the nine-speed transmission tops up the 470 hp (476 PS) provided by the electrically-turbocharged inline four, but this is 1 hybrid strategy whose priorities are decidedly skewed towards show and not parsimony. The C63 offers conscionable 8 miles (13 km) of electrical scope from its tiny 6.1 kWh artillery and unless Mercedes-AMG manages to shoehorn a bigger artillery battalion into the GLC’s much generous assemblage shell, the SUV could beryllium adjacent stingier erstwhile it comes to electrical miles.