ESTATE OF THE YEAR
A broom, a burns kit, a pair of binoculars, some fags, a mallet, a couple of hefty fre extinguishers, some wheel chocks, a trolley jack and a call sign: Recovery. Not an average day’s work for an estate car, but then the Merc-AMG E63S is no ordinary estate car – 604bhp, 4WD, 1,820 litres of load space, rumours of a derestricted top speed beginning with a two.
We’d been pondering how best to test the almost unique abilities of Merc’s mightiest hauler, when a call came in. “Do you want to come and get involved down at Newquay? And by the way, you haven’t got anything big and fast you can bring down, have you?” I paraphrase, but only slightly.
As you’ve probably heard and hopefully…