Today, AMG is the in-house performance arm of Mercedes-Benz, but it started out as a humble operation run by two engineers. The car that launched AMG on the path to three-pointed stardom was a hulking ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. How do you pay tribute to a race car as legendary as the “Red Pig”? With a trio of track-only speed machines, apparently. That ...

The Mercedes-Benz 300SEL 6.8 AMG ‘Rote Sau’ (Red Pig) is one of the marque’s best-known touring cars and the brand’s former design chief has shared his 21st-century reimagining of this famous race car ...

When building race cars, it's ideal to use something lightweight and compact. You want something that's agile and light on its feet, and bulk easily blunts performance and potential. That said, the ...

The car that birthed AMG decades ago emerged from the minds of Hans Werner Aulfrecht and Erhard Melcher (the “A” and the “M”), two erstwhile Mercedes engineers who had a zealous penchant for speed.

Mercedes-AMG has been celebrating its 55th anniversary for months now. The premium German brand took the party to the racetrack as well and had David Coulthard and Lewis Hamilton drive two iconic AMG ...

After a horrific 1955 crash at Le Mans, Mercedes-Benz banned itself from participating in motorsports for about four decades. But now-in-house Mercedes tuner AMG was not subject to that factory ban.

If you like old AMGs, then this 1969 Mercedes 300 SEL 6.3 ‘Red Pig’ replica will tickle your fancy quite intensely; this is after all one of the most iconic AMG models of all time. The original ‘Red ...

Before AMG was brought under the wing of the three-pointed star, it started out as an independent tuning house. Created by former Mercedes engineers Hans Werner Aufrecht and Erhard Melcher in 1967, it ...

How do you pay tribute to a race car as legendary as the “Red Pig”? With a trio of track-only speed machines, apparently. That seems to be approach Mercedes-AMG is taking at least. The German ...

The car that birthed AMG decades ago emerged from the minds of Hans Werner Aulfrecht and Erhard Melcher (the “A” and the “M”), two erstwhile Mercedes engineers who had a zealous penchant for speed.