Super SUVs have never been more expensive — or more capable — than they are right now. Yet hiding in plain sight on used-car listings is a machine that delivers genuine AMG drama for the price of a well-worn economy car: the Mercedes-Benz ML63 AMG. Pick up a 2009 example with around 140,000 miles, and you could be looking at roughly $13,000 — less than the cheapest new car on sale in the US, the Hyundai Venue. That’s also half what you’d pay for a Toyota RAV4. For that money you get 510 hp, a naturally aspirated V8 hand-assembled by a single Master Engine Builder in Affalterbach, Germany, and a soundtrack that will make your neighbors question their life choices.
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