Nearly 10 years have passed since a Mercedes-Benz E63 AMG wagon with a rip-snorting 507-hp 6.2-liter V-8 was the undisputed hero of our Surprise Speed Tournament, in which we identified five unlikely pairs of automobiles that, based on our testing, could run neck and neck from zero to 60 mph and/or through the quarter-mile. That 2007 E63 wagon?s remarkable 4.0-second 60-mph sprint and 12.5-second quarter-mile at 115 mph would likely have shocked the cocksure driver of the then new Audi R8 supercar, who would?ve suffered the added indignity of watching the wagon pull farther and farther ahead past the quarter until reaching its electronically limited maximum velocity of 155 mph. Surprise, indeed. READ MORE ??
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