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 ...

Mercedes-AMG’s decision to downsize the engines in several models, including the C 43 and C 63, hasn’t gone over well with buyers, but there’s finally some light at the end of the tunnel. Change is ...