A Mercedes E55 AMG Estate crashes after brake failure, turning a powerful track moment into a serious and frightening scene.

From the March 1999 issue of Car and Driver. German engineers mining for torque deposits near Affalterbach must have hit a mother lode. At least, that's what it feels like from behind the ...

From the December 2002 issue of Car and Driver. Hard to believe, but no longer is a mere 349 horsepower de rigueur for a Mercedes E55 AMG. The company has decided nothing less than the supercharged ...

The engine of the 2004 Mercedes-Benz E55 AMG produces 516 pound-feet of torque between 2,650 and 4,500 rpm. For a lot of people, this sentence means nothing. What, after all, is torque? What is a ...

While modern sports sedans have tended to go in one direction for the most part, primarily ditching glorious naturally aspirated V8s and V12s for turbocharged inline-four or V6 units, at least older ...

Like its high-horsepower über- sedan counterparts — the BMW M5, Audi RS 6 and Jaguar S-Type R — the latest-generation Mercedes-Benz E55 AMG represents the fastest, most capable and highest-performing ...

The W210-generation Mercedes-Benz E55 AMG was a fantastic high-performance luxury sedan, but there was one downside: Mercedes only sold it with an automatic transmission. If you want an E55 with a ...

Spending more than $133,000 on a used-up, two-decade old Mercedes station wagon with around 123,000 miles on it might seem ridiculous. Then again, most Mercedes wagons aren’t Michael Schumacher’s 1998 ...

Twenty-five years ago, if you had predicted there would be cars like this today, people would have said you were nuts. The late 1970s were mired in worldwide recession and a global energy shortage, ...