On this episode of The Downshift, Motor Trends Senior Features Editor Jonny Lieberman goes to Affalterbach, the home of AMG, to build his own twin-turbo V8 by hand; as all AMG engines are.

From the very start, everyone and their dog knew that sticking a plug-in hybrid turbo inline-four engine in the C 63 was a terribly bad idea. Affalterbach and Stuttgart had to learn the hard way that ...

AMG was founded in 1967 and worked alongside Mercedes-Benz for years developing racing engines and other performance upgrades. The company signed an agreement to develop vehicles for Mercedes-Benz in ...

Mercedes-AMG’s next supercar isn’t going to be powered by one of its typical fire-breathing, eardrum-rupturing V8s. Instead, AMG’s next supercar will be uncharacteristically silent. “It’s clear that ...

Mercedes-Benz has given us some glorious V8 engines. Many of the modern ones featured powerplants from AMG. The company started in 1968 and rose to prominence after turning a W109 300SEL luxury sedan ...