If you missed your V8-powered Mercedes-AMGs, you’re not alone. According to a report from Autocar, the Mercedes-Benz performance brand will move away from its 2.0-liter plug-in hybrid powertrains.

Word on the street has the internal-combustion engine (ICE) with one foot in the grave and the other on a banana peel. Hmmm. I’m blasting along some largely deserted and spectacularly sinuous southern ...