The new Mercedes-AMG C43 debuts the high-output four-cylinder engine that we’ll see in the next C63. What are our first impressions?
From a distance, the C43 looks like a regular C-Class. The signifiers are hardly radical, amounting to subtly kicked out sills, a bootlid lip spoiler and a few ornamental strakes on the radiator grille. Oh, and the quad, tail pipes are set into an ‘emphasising’ trim panel. Inside, it’s the usual recipe of vastly adjustable driving position, great seats with proper lateral support, two colourful display panels and a steering wheel festooned with function buttons.
As is the too frequent transmission shift jiggle between first and second going up or down the ‘box at lowish speeds, a rude collapse of the drivetrain’s otherwise exemplary seamlessness. From there on, though, it’s mostly all good news and if you simply want to cover ground at a serious pace, it’s exceptional.
And pick up the pace you will. Throttle response is as immediate and precise as promised, the turbo’s contribution as stealthy as it is substantial. And if the engine doesn’t sound half as good as V8 AMGs of yore, it does sound at least half decent, unerringly smooth at a cruise with a mildly angry induction note swelling in unison with the angle of the accelerator pedal.
Mercedes-AMG isn’t alone in having to reinvent itself. Times are changing. But the once presumed conflict between saving the planet and going fast has simply failed to materialise. Performance, far from being the sacrificial lamb, has got its second coming. If the new, greener C43 isn’t as emotionally rewarding as its twin-turbo predecessor, in matters of motion, there is no sacrifice.
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