Mercedes-Benz’ in-house tuning division, AMG, has decided to turn with the popular tide and stop the horsepower tuning, with AMG boss Volker Mornhinweg saying, “We are going to use other ways to extract better performance, including weight saving, engine optimization and alternative technologies.”

The new Mercedes E63 AMG will be lighter than the outgoing model and have the option of the manual wet-clutch gearbox first seen on the SL63, in order to provide more grunt with better economy.

Mornhinweg confirmed that the company was looking at producing a smaller AMG model. It was also suggested that Mercedes’ diesel, hybrid, and four-cylinder engines may be re-engineered for AMG performance.

[Source: Autocar]