The gains are even bigger at AMG, the high-performance division of Mercedes.
Ola Kallenius, chairman of Mercedes's AMG high-performance division, said the company was considering a small production run for the SLS E-Cell.
For General Motors' Mark Reuss, 46, who became a certified test driver there when he ran GM's high-performance division, navigating Nurburgring's hazards at high speed is as exhilarating as it is perilous.
There's also a carryover of the optional M Sport Package, from the brand's high-performance M division, with some tailored suspension bits, wheels and upholstery accents.
The magazine cited Kay Segler, the brand's chief executive and the former head of BMW Group's high-performance M division, as its source.
BMW's 2013 M6 coupe and convertible, with a fierce 560-horsepower, twin-turbocharged V-8, are the latest luxury weapons from the vaunted high-performance M division.
And like every model that wears the badge of BMW's high-performance M division, the M3 has become steadily more extravagant.
He was one of ten artists and businesspeople to receive the prize, which came courtesy of the Chinese magazine Life and of Mercedes-AMG, the high-performance-vehicle division of Mercedes-Benz.
Fun is spoken less haltingly in Affalterbach, where Mercedes' high-performance AMG division is located.
This Italian-made machine is the new convertible version of the Pagani Cinque Coupe, the street-legal version of the Zonda R. The 678-horsepower, V12 engine is built by Mercedes-Benz's high-performance AMG division.
