“For nearly 25 years” sounds so much more impressive than “since 1992”.
For the time they made pretty good engines at AMG. Today they are outrageous. They lie about the numbers. The E63 AMG is claimed to be 577 hp. In a television dyno test where the car test crew did not believe the hp vs. the 0-60 time. The dyno and estimates of AWD drivetrain loss estimated in the high 800 hp range.