"the Merc will no doubt scramble to put down all that muscle from a standstill" The sentence is a part of a article about vehicles. The words are so native that I can't understand them exactly. The following article is part of article and the sentence between the double quotation marks is my question. I love it when a vehicle does something unexpected. ...and the result is this two-and-a-half minute video. In the red corner, we have the Audi RS6 Avant , which comes loaded with a 4.0-liter V-8 boosted by ..... In the black corner is the Mercedes-AMG E63 S Estate, which also gets a twin-turbo V-8..... Only the rear axle provides the traction. Clearly, the Audi has the advantage off the line, as "the Merc will no doubt scramble to put down all that muscle from a standstill". Once in motion, however, the Audi will start to lose ground to the more powerful AMG missile. Which Teutonic terror will come out on top? Hit play to find out.