The article was originally produced on May 15, 2018, some facts and prices may have changed since then.

Before you have time to pronounce the full name, the Mercedes AMG GT63 s 4Matic+ 4-Door Coupé has already passed the hundred mark! This is the super sports car with room for the whole family.

The GT family started with a coupe intended for two people but has now grown to include another model. The latest addition is a four-door coupe version with seating for four or five depending on rear seat configuration. Keeping track of what differentiates all the versions in the GT family is not simple and something I already covered once with the test drive of the AMG GT R. The AMG GT 4-Door Coupé does not have quite as many variants as the two-door version but almost.

If we disregard the addition 4Matic+ 4-Door Coupé that all versions are called, we can start from the bottom in terms of horsepower and go up. The entry-level model with the lowest number of horses is called the AMG GT 43. It has a 367-horse straight six-cylinder three-litre engine with a turbo. After it, we have the AMG GT 53, which also has a straight six-cylinder turbo engine fixed with 435 horses. The step after that is the AMG GT 63 and here we find a turbocharged V8 with 585 horsepower.

This car is angry!

Top of the range, and the car we drove, is the AMG GT 63s. Here, all the horses have been unleashed and the power lands at a breathtaking 639 horsepower and 900 newton metres of torque. If it really is faster to reach the hundred mark than to say the whole name, I leave it unsaid, but that it only takes 3.2 seconds to reach a hundred is true. With a top speed of 315 km/h, there is no doubt that this is an insanely fast car.

At first glance, the car feels almost a little vulgar with the large, wide and forward-slanting grill that inspires great respect. This car is angry! If the car had been black, I would hardly have dared to approach it. Now it is in a matte blue tone which, despite it being grey outside, appears incredibly beautiful.

The shape of the car with its sloping coupe line makes it lie flat on the road. Not as much as the main competitor Porsche Panamera, which also gave it its nickname, the "Panamerakiller". But it is quite obvious which customer group you are aiming for with the AMG GT63s, you want Porsche's loyal customers who want to get more people into the car than just two and be able to travel crazy fast and at the same time comfortably.

When you open the frameless doors and step inside, you are greeted by a wonderful mix of leather, alcantara, carbon fibre and brushed aluminium. Sporty and sober in perfect combination. Nowadays, there are no analogue gauges, but everything is shown on a wide screen that stretches from the driver's side to the middle. At first glance it appears to be in one piece but is divided into two where one is the one in front of the steering wheel with all the info the driver needs and the other with navigation, infotainment but also engine data that can be displayed in an AMG mode.

However, it is not only here that screens have been used, all the buttons for the car's settings in the centre console are now small screens that show the respective setting that has been selected. It all results in a clean and easy-to-view panel that switches off completely when the car is not running.

The sound coming from the four pipes in the back is a notch better than all the music in the world

Not much has been saved on and the sound system from Burmester is something Mercedes has really been generous with. Few sound systems sound as good as this one. But that's not the only thing that sounds good about the AMG GT63s. The sound coming from the four pipes in the back is a notch better than all the music in the world if you ask me. In Sport plus mode, the sound sizzles, pops and crashes with a fantastic soundtrack. The technicians at AMG are geniuses at achieving a massive sound despite engines with turbochargers.

The art of building a car that works for everything is something car manufacturers try to outdo each other with each new car of this kind. It should be as comfortable as a luxury loaf, sporty as a formula-1 car and frugal as an electric car. Succeeding with this equation is of course not entirely easy, but with the AMG GT63s, Mercedes succeeds really well.

In the comfort mode, you float forward as if on small fluffy clouds. If you then want the car to be more sporty, just step up from "Sport" to "Sport+", where sport plus gives you a rock-hard racer. There is also a mode where you can compose yourself how you want the car to be, for example sporty gearbox, engine mapping and exhaust noise but comfort on the dampers.

In addition, there is an environmentally friendly alternative that optimises the car to drag as little as possible. The only thing missing would be an off-road mode, because even if the car has intelligent four-wheel drive, it is not enough for any escapades outside the normal road. However, the four-wheel drive is a big plus for full control when driving actively and when winter road conditions prevail. 

You have probably already understood that the AMG GT63s is fast, but how fast it really is can hardly be described in words. The feeling you get when you push the gas to the bottom and let all 639 horses grip the asphalt with the tyres is exhilarating. You are pushed back in the seat quite a lot and the roller-coaster effect triggers a wonderful churning in the stomach. If you have a passenger next to you or for that matter in the back seat, the cup will be filled with laughter and wonderful screams. You could easily say that the AMG GT63s are the family's own roller coaster to enjoy every day.

Mercedes AMG GT63s 4Matic+ 4-Door Coupé

Basic price	From SEK 1,670,000
Engine	4-litre V8, twin-turbo, 639 hp. Torque 900 Nm
Transmission	Front engine, 9-speed automatic, variable four-wheel drive
Acceleration	0-100 in 3.2 sec
Top speed	315 km/h
Fuel consumption mixed driving according to the manufacturer	1.13 l/mile.
Weight	2,120 kg
Guarantees	New car 2 years, carriage damage 3 years, rust 30 years, paint 3 years
Web	www.mercedes-benz.se