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    The Pink Panther

    Feb 04, 2020 5 minutes
    Words: Joe Partridge
    Photography: Matt Clifford

    It’s easy to get caught up in the serpentine machinations of the modern Mercedes-Benz model range, particularly when it comes to AMG. See, nowadays they’ll stick an AMG badge on anything and that’s a bit confusing.

    Peer back through the swirling mists of time to the age before Mercedes-Benz (or rather, DaimlerChrysler) took a controlling interest in AMG in 1990, and we find that ‘AMG Motorenbau und Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH’ operated as its own independent entity – an engineering firm specialising in tuning Mercedes-Benz products, although they did dabble in other brands too (AMG Mitsubishi Galant, anyone?).

    The first commercially available, official AMG Mercedes was the C36 in 1993. So unlike today, when it’s possible to walk into a Merc showroom and choose from a variety of official AMG variants, it was more the case back then that such a model was a

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