Believe it or not, but the completely over-the-top Mercedes-Benz G63 AMG 6×6 will actually be offered to real people—real people with piles of money serving as ottomans, but real people nonetheless. The brand has confirmed that “exclusive small-scale production” will commence, and a price has been set at a dizzying €379,000 (just about $513,000 at today’s exchange rates). That’s almost four times as much as the pedestrian-in-comparison four-wheeled G63 AMG.
Massively oversized and probably overpriced—at least when you consider you pay 300 percent more for only a 50-percent increase in the number of wheels—it is the perfect toy for your private collection of sand dunes on the Arabian Peninsula. The six-wheeled G-class is inspired by the far more frugal 6×6 G-wagen that Daimler engineered for the Australian armed forces. Powered by a 5.5-liter twin-turbo V-8 making 536 horsepower and 561 lb-ft of torque, the G63 6×6 is claimed to reach 60 mph in seven seconds.
For those hoping that perhaps the Mojave would be suitable grounds to host Benz’s toy monster truck, that won’t be possible. Daimler executives tell us that there is no chance the G63 6×6 will be sold in the U.S.
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The ostentatiousness of the G63 AMG 6×6 probably is unsurpassed, at least as far as factory offers go. Yet we have a suggestion to improve it: We’d like to see the G65′s 603-hp, 6.0-liter twin-turbo V-12 shoehorned underhood. But hey, Daimler just extended its contract with Magna Steyr to continue building the G-wagen until 2019. That gives the skunkworks crew at AMG plenty of time to come up with more craziness.
Source: CarAndDriver
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