For 2016, Mercedes-Benz’s C-Class gains a new trim, the C450 AMG, and drops the C400 from the lineup. The new C450 AMG performance sedan is intended to take on the Audi S4 and BMW 335i. The C63 AMG sedan has always been a manic car; it can be truly brutal in every sense of the word and yet as comfortable as an E-Class saloon all in the space of five minutes. View 110 images. It

The most powerful AMG C-class, the C63, traded the V-8 for a hybridized turbo four, and the next top-of-the-line E-class, the upcoming E63, will make do with an inline-six plug-in-hybrid setup.

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