Say it ain’t so! Sadly, looks like it’s so. Shite. Tougher emissions standards, global financial collapse and general malaise are all conspiring against big, multi-cylindered engines. Like Mercedes’ torque-monster M275 V12s. You know, the engines that power Zondas and can spin-out close to 1,000 lb-ft of torque, even though no AMG tranny can handle the massive power so they’re all “detuned” to 738 lb-ft? Bye-bye. They were all set to be replaced with a new twelve-cylinder family called M295. But that’s not happening. Instead, AMG will be piping two turbos into its hella muscular 6.2-liter V8. They claim that with the forced induction power levels will be the same while emissions, number of moving parts and costs will all be down. Sounds like the M Division. And while we totally logically get it, emotionally we want V12s. [Source: Motor Authority]
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Wait a minute, what Pagani used a M275? AFAIK they all used some new-old-stock M120 engines. Got that one mixed up?
M120s were the original ‘91-98 V12s, were available from 6.0 to 7.3L displacement. They were replaced (in the S-Class/CL) by the 5.8L M137 in 1999, which was a more compact engine with cylinder deactivation. The M137 was available as a 6.3 in the S, CL and G63 AMG (tho only factory V12 G-Wagen!) for a very short time.
In 2002, Mercedes started replacing the M137 with the M275, which was a smaller-displacement version of the M137 (5.5L in the S600, 6.0L in the S65)