Despite its reevaluation of electrified car production, the brand says it "retains the ambition to defend margins as the BEV [battery electric vehicle] share increases." Down the road, Mercedes has a lot of pieces in motion,

And this being 2025 means that eight-cylinder is bringing a few friends along for a ride. Because AMG says that "strategic evolution of its portfolio will include a next-generation, high-tech electrified V8”. That’s it. That’s all we’ve got to go on.

While it has been rumoured that Mercedes-Benz is giving up on V8 engines altogether, the company recently reaffirmed its stance that this is not the case and that the V8 is here to stay. During

The company basically binned the car's stock high-output 2.0-liter biturbo-based hybrid powertrain—battery pack and all—and swapped in an older version of Mercedes-AMG's latest 4.0-liter twin-turbo V-8. That means, VUK's custom-made V-8 W206 C 63 S is the only one of its kind in the entire world.

If an Austrian tuner just gave the modern-day Mercedes-AMG C 63 S E Performance a twin-turbo V8 engine, why can't the three-pointed start brand do the same?

AMG has played with smaller engines in the recent past, controversially swapping the V8 out of the C63 for a four-cylinder powerplant. Downsizing is a common trend nowadays in the auto industry, but it was received with varying degrees of love from the brand's faithful as they yearned for that V8 grit.

Turbocharged four-cylinders certainly make ample power, but Mercedes is committed to sticking by bigger cylinder counts.

Mercedes-AMG has announced a new hybrid V8 engine. In what appears to be a course correction, or a step backward depending on your point of view, the move aims to satisfy enthusiasts' demands for old-school performance yet with modern hybrid technology.