{"id":118105,"date":"2015-02-27T14:00:19","date_gmt":"2015-02-27T13:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gtspirit.com\/?p=118105"},"modified":"2015-02-27T08:06:23","modified_gmt":"2015-02-27T07:06:23","slug":"mercedes-benz-amg-sport-variants-of-cla-and-e-class-likely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/2015\/02\/27\/mercedes-benz-amg-sport-variants-of-cla-and-e-class-likely\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercedes-Benz AMG Sport Variants of CLA and E-Class Likely"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gtspiritmedia.com\/gtspirit\/uploads\/2015\/02\/10935684_10152906202446117_1265250806_o-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gtspiritmedia.com\/gtspirit\/uploads\/2015\/02\/10935684_10152906202446117_1265250806_o-1-696x385.jpg\" alt=\"10935684_10152906202446117_1265250806_o-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-118137\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/10935684_10152906202446117_1265250806_o-1-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/10935684_10152906202446117_1265250806_o-1-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/10935684_10152906202446117_1265250806_o-1-696x463.jpg 696w, https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/10935684_10152906202446117_1265250806_o-1-1068x710.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/10935684_10152906202446117_1265250806_o-1.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/category\/supercars\/mercedes\/\" title=\"Mercedes\">Mercedes-Benz<\/a> has confirmed that more of its models are likely to adopt the AMG Sport badge in the future as the marque aims to rival the BMW M Performance and Audi S Quattro lines.<\/p>\n<p>One of the most likely candidates to receive an AMG Sport variant is the next-generation Mercedes-Benz E-Class pinned to make its global debut at the IAA Frankfurt Motor Show 2015 in September. We already know that the new E-Class will bring with it a new line of inline six-cylinder engines and the AMG Sport model could use such an engine tuned to provide maximum performance.<\/p>\r\n<div class=\"ngg-galleryoverview\" id=\"ngg-gallery-13894-118105\">\r\n\r\n\r\n\t\r\n\t<!-- Thumbnails -->\r\n\t\t\r\n\t<div id=\"ngg-image-203704\" class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail-box\"  >\r\n\t\t<div class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail\" >\r\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-content\/gallery\/gallery-mercedes-benz-c450-amg-4matic\/10935684_10152906202446117_1265250806_o.jpg\" title=\"2015 Mercedes-Benz C450 AMG 4Matic\" class=\"thickbox\" rel=\"set_13894\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"2015 Mercedes-Benz C450 AMG 4Matic\" alt=\"2015 Mercedes-Benz C450 AMG 4Matic\" src=\"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-content\/gallery\/gallery-mercedes-benz-c450-amg-4matic\/thumbs\/thumbs_10935684_10152906202446117_1265250806_o.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"75\" 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href=\"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-content\/gallery\/gallery-mercedes-benz-c450-amg-4matic\/10933280_10152906203706117_1763411600_n.jpg\" title=\"2015 Mercedes-Benz C450 AMG 4Matic\" class=\"thickbox\" rel=\"set_13894\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"2015 Mercedes-Benz C450 AMG 4Matic\" alt=\"2015 Mercedes-Benz C450 AMG 4Matic\" src=\"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-content\/gallery\/gallery-mercedes-benz-c450-amg-4matic\/thumbs\/thumbs_10933280_10152906203706117_1763411600_n.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"75\" \/>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n\t\r\n\t\t\r\n \t \t\r\n\t<!-- Pagination -->\r\n \t<div class=\"ngg-clear\"><\/div> \t\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n<p>The managing director of Mercedes-AMG, Tobias Moers, expanded on this and went on to reveal that AMG Sport derivatives of the A-Class, CLA and GLA are all likely.<\/p>\n<p>Discussing the AMG Sport Line more generally, Moers said, \u201c&#8221;I don\u2019t care about the niche brand, I don\u2019t even care about the exclusive brand. AMG is the performance and sports car brand of Mercedes-Benz cars and if you bring cars to the market which are representing the AMG approach and attitude \u2013 driving performance \u2013 in that segment, then you don\u2019t have a problem with the brand.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe cars must fit into our brand approach, which is driving performance. If you step into the sport model segment with the C450 \u2013 if it comes to a competitive test with our competitors, a comparison with the Audi S5 or whatever \u2014 then our car must be in front.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motoring.com.au\/news\/2015\/prestige-and-luxury\/mercedes-benz\/amg-sport-to-drive-expansion-49441\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Motoring<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mercedes-Benz has confirmed that more of its models are likely to adopt the AMG Sport badge in the future as the marque aims to rival the BMW M Performance and Audi S Quattro lines. One of the most likely candidates to receive an AMG Sport variant is the next-generation Mercedes-Benz E-Class pinned to make its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":118137,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[10],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118105"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}