Mercedes-Benz and their in-house tuning arm AMG wowed the world when they revealed a few weeks ago the 2017 Mercedes-AMG E63 S, a monster sedan with more than 600 horsepower. Now it’s time to put this beast through its paces in its first independent road and track tests to see if it is all muscle or a mix of muscles and brains.

So here’s the review roundup for the 2017 Mercedes-AMG E63 S providing, we hope, the answers to all your questions about the new model:

Just to recap, the 2017 Mercedes-AMG E63 S packs a 612 horsepower 4.0-litre twin-turbo V8 engine mated to a nine-speed Multi Clutch transmission and AMG all-wheel-drive, making possible an acceleration of 3.4 seconds from 0 to 100 km/h. There is also a pointless non-S version of this car with 570 horsepower and 0-100 km/h time of 3.5 seconds. We don’t know why they even bothered making this one, but there you go.