2026 Mercedes-AMG S 63 Will Take The Super Limo To New Heights

AMG’s S-Class Is Getting A Subtle Refresh

Last week, our spies snapped the smallest new AMG product in Europe, and now they’ve caught the biggest. The W223 S-Class that forms the basis of the S63 has been around since 2020, so it’s time for a slight refresh, and new spy shots reveal that the front and rear lighting units will gain new looks. Like other new Mercs, a three-pointed star motif will find its way to the front and rear daytime running light graphics, and the Panamerican grille is likely to get tweaked vanes. At the rear, it appears that the taillight clusters may be slimmed down slightly, but it’s difficult to be sure with the camouflage obscuring most of the changes. Regardless, a set of four exhaust tips and the gold-painted brake calipers (denoting carbon-ceramics) confirm that this is the hottest S-Class out there.

No Need For More Power, Say Sources

The current S63 E Performance that tops the S-Class range produces 791 horsepower and 1,055 lb-ft of torque from a 4.0-liter twin-turbocharged V8 paired with a 150 kW permanently synchronous electric motor on the rear axle. This allows the speediest Sonderklasse to hit 60 mph from rest in a claimed 3.3 seconds, and our spies say these figures will be carried over to the facelifted model.

We doubt any S63 buyers complained that their car was too slow, but it’s also not unimaginable that AMG would extract a little more to bring the car over the 800-bhp mark. More likely, however, is that the tiny 10.4 kWh battery (delivering just 16 miles of range) will be revised to make this a more competitive plug-in hybrid. Another significant change is the addition of a tiny camera to each fender where the ‘V8 Biturbo’ badge would normally reside, likely part of an expanded advanced driver assist suite.

A New Hyperscreen Is Coming

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Our spies claim that the S63 will get a revised Hyperscreen dash display (the current car still uses a separate driver display and a vertically oriented center touchscreen), and they say buyers can look forward to the return of physical buttons on the steering wheel, which should be much more enjoyable to use (and more resistant to smudge marks) than the touch capacitive panels on the current model. The changes should mean a slightly different dash design, and we can probably expect a couple of new colors and leather options. The new S63 is likely to arrive for the 2026 model year, so a full reveal should happen before the end of 2025.