2017 Mercedes-AMG C43 Cabriolet review — Auto Car
A convertible body suits Mercedes-AMG’s C43 badge particularly well. It looks like a C63 hot rod, but offers a slightly more relaxed demeanour, and a price point that lines up.
Mercedes-AMG is a big deal in Australia. Its market penetration is higher here than pretty much anywhere else in the world, this side of Monaco. If you live in an inner-urban suburb of any major capital city, you’ve already seen the evidence with your own eyes.
You may also have noticed that the Affalterbach-based tuning house has been broadening its line-up of late, expanding beyond the ultra-loud (or obnoxious, depending on your stance) 63- and 45-series flagships.
This tactic to lure in a less affluent, or less ostentatious, luxury buyer with a performance bent has culminated in the C43, E43, GLC43… You get the drift.
Here we have the Mercedes-AMG C43 in soft-top convertible guise, a sort of hotted up, wind-in-the-hair glamazon that complements the animalistic C63 derivative.
At a market list price (before on-roads ) of $120,611, the C43 is a staggering $61,000 cheaper than its angrier sibling, and competes head-on with the BMW 440i folding hardtop ($117,610) and Audi S5 soft-top ($119,111). It’s also a pretty reasonable $20,000 pricier than the less powerful Mercedes-Benz C300 convertible (180kW/370Nm), sans AMG fettling.
Of course, the C43 AMG coupe that’s equally beautiful and 103kg lighter ‘only’ costs $106K, though BMW’s gap between hard- and soft-tops is even wider. Cheeky blighters, both.
Of course, you don’t get something for nothing. The C63’s 375kW/700Nm 4.0-litre force-fed V8 is gone, now replaced by a twin-turbocharged 3.0-litre V6 with a ‘mere’ 270kW of power at 5500rpm and 520Nm of torque from 2000rpm, resulting in the 0–100km/h time blowing out by seven-tenths to a hardly sluggish 4.8sec. How ever will one live with such an indignity?
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