By the time the 1980s rolled around, Mercedes-Benz was no stranger to muscle cars. A series of S-Class super-specials in the 1970s—specifically the 300 SEL 6.3 of the late ’60s and its 450SEL 6.9 follow-up—proved the brand understood the appeal of big power from a highly tuned V-8 engine stuffed into a four-door package.
What the company had yet to attempt, however, was the classic Detroit-style hot rod package of shoehorning an embiggened motor into a more modestly sized…
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