Mercedes AMG Diesel Model Dubbed Super Hammer to Launch Within Three Years

Mercedes-Benz C63 AMG

AMG is giving diesel another, more serious try with Super Hammer twin turbo, arriving within three years

By Thami Masemola
November 17, 2008 9:50 PM
Filed Under: German, Mercedes-Benz, Rumours

Comic books have Superman. Now the world of cars will have Super Hammer, which incidentally has nothing to do with either the superhero or the bankrupt rapper. Super Hammer will be with us within the next three years, and it promises to be a stonker of a machine created by Mercedes-Benz's high-performance AMG division.

AMG head Volker Mornhinweg told Autocar that the Super Hammer would hark back to the W124 E-Class based AMG Hammer which was a sharp shooter of high note, complete with a petrol engine. This time around diesel is your daddy, and yeah, will daddy deliver. Suggestions point to a twin turbo diesel which will make that magical 500bhp figure. Big number for a diesel, but then again, diesels aren't about horses but torque. And at such a power figure, torque can be expected at a minimum of 900Nm.

Super Hammer will not be a big car though, choosing instead the chassis of a C-Class, most probably to be first seen inside the next E-Class. These bodies suit Mornhinweg's purposes of making the car compact, light and efficient. Possibly cabriolets and coupes will be part of the Super Hammer lineup too.

AMG has made a diesel before, in 2002, which was the C30 AMG and was based on the Sport Coupe body. Today "normal", higher-end diesels produce as much power and torque as that car, but back then it was quite an outstanding achievement.

 

Source: autocar.co.uk

Comments

pousa13
November 17, 2008 9:56 PM
audi has it´s V12 Diesel and nox mercedes is going to be the next one with an engine almost nobody will ever need. in the actual situation the horsepower racing should be over but instead they are now attacking the diesels. not very clever in my opinion

Joe_Limon
November 17, 2008 11:06 PM
Diesel... over half the gas stations here can't get it anymore due to shortages. Why buy a car you can't fuel up?

BENZian
November 17, 2008 11:58 PM
...because they are trying to give you high horsepower with better performance and efficiency.

john_doe
November 18, 2008 12:42 AM
very true, diesel cars are super super efficient. i remember my dad used to have the 80's S-class diesel version, and those could go forever, and even now people in the middle-east prefer to use these babies because they run on one tank of fuel forever. in fact, diesel may be than those batteries made by toyota

ShinyG
November 18, 2008 1:03 AM
Don't forget higher research costs, higher maintenance costs and higher retail price... Capitalism FTW! Why invest in clean electric cars and infrastructure when you can milk the oil cow for a while longer with "clean, efficient diesels"!?

plasma_cluster
November 18, 2008 6:19 AM
Some sour lemons don't like that german diesel has more torque then american

Joe_Limon
November 18, 2008 9:45 PM
plasma are you still jealous that North American trucks have been running diesels since the 80's? Where as germans have only recently started pushing the technology.

evo82
November 18, 2008 10:23 AM
is it me or is the name "Super Hammer" a bit over the top?

mmr66
November 18, 2008 5:36 PM
i hate dissel cars

Schizo0223
November 18, 2008 7:12 PM
I used to be in the same shoe as you mmrr66...but I drove one of the newer diesel Mercs in Germany and I was impressed. My next daily driver will be a diesel for sure as my commute to work is nothing but traffic lights and grid lock...which requires no horse power but lots of torque!!!

RGL
November 18, 2008 9:45 PM
should be nice, just hope its not awful

swifthead
November 19, 2008 12:33 AM
I love the idea of TT super diesel sports car made by Mercedes...my dad has an SL500 and it would be great to have that engine in the SL!!!!

Go Mercedes-AMG go go

SA_Car_Fan
December 2, 2008 2:04 AM
@ joe_limon...

You're joking right?You actually want to claim that the Americans were pushing diesel before the Germans?You do know that it was Karl Benz and Gottlieb Daimler who both invented the concept,snd actual first,cars?A German who invented the diesel engine?Mercedes-Benz who invented the first production diesel in 1936?Mercedes-Benz who still hold the landspeed record for diesel cars with their C111 in 1978,managing to get a diesel car with 230ps(170kW) to run around Nardo at 322km/h,as well as averaging 14.7mpg at 316km/h?!?!?!Interesting how many of those facts Mercedes-Benz feature in,almost as interesting as the fact that you decide to slate the Germans diesel technology in a article about Mercedes-Benz...Oh and about the "truck" thing...Mercedes',and the Germans,first diesel production car was in 1936.How many diesel cars do the Americans produce now??And you seem quite proud that the Americans were pushing diesel technology in their trucks in the 1980s...Mercedes also introduced the first diesel truck,in 1925.Perhaps you should do some fact checking before making claims or being biased?

SA_Car_Fan
December 2, 2008 2:13 AM
And if you can't fill it up,don't buy it.We have plenty of diesel here in South Africa,just because the car is irrelevant in your market,doesn't make it irrelevant as a whole.The world is a big place,and doesn't just consist of you and/or North America.I would love to drive a 373kW Mercedes diesel,I would love to be as quick as others on the road,quicker up hills,and relaxed because I don't have to drop a gear to overtake another car,while at the same time using much less fuel...I myself drive a Mercedes C320 CDI,and regularly use my girlfriends dads BMW 330d.Both diesels,both awesome,both my preference over the equivalent petrol models.It works for me even though it doesn't work for you. =)

zimstyles
January 19, 2009 9:01 PM
This is true, I recently drove a C220CDI from Cape town to Johannesburg and I only had to top up once and thats because I was driving very fast. I could never do that with my E240. I get close to 1000km per tank mixed driving.

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