2026 Mercedes-AMG S 63 Will Take The Super Limo To New Heights
The current S63 E Performance that tops the S-Class range produces 791 horsepower and 1,055 lb-ft of torque from a 4.0-liter twin-turbocharged V8 paired with a 150 kW permanently synchronous electric motor on the rear axle. This allows the speediest Sonderklasse to hit 60 mph from rest in a claimed 3.3 seconds, and our spies say these figures will be carried over to the facelifted model.
We doubt any S63 buyers complained that their car was too slow, but it's also not unimaginable that AMG would extract a little more to bring the car over the 800-bhp mark. More likely, however, is that the tiny 10.4 kWh battery (delivering just 16 miles of range) will be revised to make this a more competitive plug-in hybrid. Another significant change is the addition of a tiny camera to each fender where the 'V8 Biturbo' badge would normally reside, likely part of an expanded advanced driver assist suite.
Related: Mercedes-AMG Is Developing A New V8, Happy To Keep Combustion Alive Indefinitely
Our spies claim that the S63 will get a revised Hyperscreen dash display (the current car still uses a separate driver display and a vertically oriented center touchscreen), and they say buyers can look forward to the return of physical buttons on the steering wheel, which should be much more enjoyable to use (and more resistant to smudge marks) than the touch capacitive panels on the current model. The changes should mean a slightly different dash design, and we can probably expect a couple of new colors and leather options. The new S63 is likely to arrive for the 2026 model year, so a full reveal should happen before the end of 2025.
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