The AMG Hammer offered 5.6-liter (355 hp) and 6.0-liter (375 hp) V-8 versions The conversion cost $125,000, plus the $39,000 MSRP of a Mercedes-Benz 300E The Hammer could hit 60 mph in 5.0 seconds ...

Obviously, the Hammer is not exactly your mass-produced Merc. It's a selectively equipped 300E impeccably turned out by AMG, the German tuning firm specializing in those other stars from Stuttgart.

The Blue Black Metallic 300E sedan left the Mercedes factory on October 6, 1986 and was shipped directly to AMG’s headquarters in Affalterbach, where it started to go under the knife.

The then-independent tuner took 300E and 300CE models, removed the factory straight-six, and replaced it with its own version of the Mercedes-Benz 5.6-liter V6 that powered the W126 560 SEC model.

Last year, an AMG Hammer coupe (basically the same car just built off of a Mercedes 300CE) sold for $761,800. While that was a coupe, and had fewer miles, this car’s $625,000 auction estimate ...

The AMG Hammer 300E set the wheels in motion, so to speak, for future generations of one-off performance Mercedes cars, and what followed was the 500E. Mercedes saw the AMG Hammer’s bonkers ...

The Mercedes-Benz 300E is one of the greatest cars of the last twenty years. Well-built, modern, ... The car had a hard edge to it, and it was sheer joy to hammer one down an empty mountain road.

The Hammer was also a bit of a Frankenstein car – buyers would have to purchase a $39,000 300E and have it retrofitted by AMG to Hammer specifications, and there were varying degrees of ...

AMG has packed a heap of high-tech hardware into the car, and the abundance of gadgetry combined with such brute power has us reminiscing about the one and only 1986 Mercedes 300E "Hammer" -- at ...

Gooding is auctioning off a 300CE 6.0 Hammer coupe and 300E 6.0 Hammer sedan at Amelia Island next month. By Daniel Golson February 10, 2025 10:50 am EST. Mike Maez/Gooding & Company.