I will start by admitting to having bought and enjoyed three AMG products so could have a bias
Not totally fair.
Tobias Moers is not from MB HQ (not a totally bad thing given their success and reputation?) but from AMG in Affalterbach a small town that is gradually being consumed by the vastly expanding factory and employment that the success of AMG has provided? I don't think you could say that AMG has ever been relaxed, SLS, G63, A45s, Black Series. Some Germans definitely have a serious sense of engineering humour. Who else would make a 4.0 BiTurbo 4WD E Estate with 600bhp and then fit a 2WD selected "drift mode" in it. I cannot imagine the dogs face when you put him in the back of that. It makes those old jokes about Volvo's first season in BTCC with the 850T5-R estates and dogs face sticker in the rear window seem mild.
Under the team he built at AMG the company has gone from a couple of halo models to a sub-brand with enormous and pointy teeth. I just love the engines, the 5.5v8 in the E and ML are utter brutes with an exceptional soundtrack. That alone will keep me off battery driven cars for a bit yet, its the enjoyment not the numbers.
The connections into MB/AMG that he does bring will be worth their weight in gold. If you had to raid a parts bin it's a good one. If it keeps them alive then all the better, look where TVR, Bristol and other reputed marques are now. We will see if he can keep the British essence for whatever that can be defined as?
I think it is the best place that it could have landed given this climate.
