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The next Mercedes E63 AMG will continue to use the company’s 6.2-litre V8, in spite of increasingly stringent emissions laws. Sources privy to the car’s details revealed to Autocar that the next hot E-class is a “clean-slate design” that uses the current 6.2-litre V8 engine. “Only the engine is brought over. The remainder has been either heavily reworked or is completely new,” said our source.
The new E63 will be unveiled at the 2009 Frankfurt motor show, just six months after the new E-class...Read the full article

Not much bhp/torque/mpg data but certainly looks the business. For a largish saloon it has a squat beefy street presence and whilst I can't see it beating a BMW 5-Series for all round driver appeal the new E certainly pulls the older you get.