HEAVY HITTER

ONE OF THE CHIEF complaints of the original 2015 C205 Mercedes-AMG C63 S Coupe was it was a bit too firmly sprung. While the burly, twin-turbo V8 rear-driver resisted body-roll to an impressive degree, it made you aware of its handling pedigree at all times, even in traffic, by way of feeling like the dampers were stuck in Sport mode.

For the C63 S facelift released in 2018, whether meekly or begrudgingly, AMG engineers sought to change their uber-coupe’s