{"id":12598,"date":"2019-10-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/mercedes-benz-300-ce-6-0-amg-hammer-2\/"},"modified":"2020-10-08T11:22:23","modified_gmt":"2020-10-08T11:22:23","slug":"mercedes-benz-300-ce-6-0-amg-hammer-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/en\/mercedes-benz-300-ce-6-0-amg-hammer-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercedes-Benz 300 CE 6.0 AMG Hammer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Today AMG is known to the vast majority of younger car fans as the Mercedes-Benz sports department. Officially, the name is now Mercedes-AMG. The fact that this company from Affalterbach was once an independent tuning company has been almost forgotten in many places. Hans Werner Aufrecht and Erhard Melcher, former engineers of Mercedes-Benz, founded this tuning company originally in Gro\u00dfaspach\/Germany and named it with the first letters of their surnames and the first letter of the town. The main focus was on the sporty performance enhancement of the cars with star logos, but orders from other brands such as Mitsubishi were also accepted. In 1990 a cooperation agreement was signed with Mercedes-Benz, which led to the jointly developed C 36 AMG based on the W202 series in 1993. All the following AMG models were to be found in the official model series brochures and could be ordered from any Mercedes dealership. From a 51 percent takeover in 1998, the influence of Mercedes-Benz continued to grow until AMG became a wholly owned subsidiary in 2005.

One of the final vehicles before the cooperation agreement came into force was the 300 CE 6.0 AMG with the apt nickname ‘Hammer’ in 1992. Based on the Coup\u00e9 version of the 124 series, this was the wildest offshoot from Affalterbach at the time and definitely unusual. The E-Class Coup\u00e9 (C124) was factory fitted with a modified platform with 8.5 centimeters less wheelbase compared to the sedan, which made the longer doors more visible. AMG gratefully accepted this starting point and significantly widened the fenders all around. In addition, there was a front bumper with integrated spoiler lips and a three-part tear-off edge on and next to the boot lid at the rear. The wider wheel arches were filled with alloy wheels in their own AMG design, some of which were painted in body color.<\/p>\n\n\n

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