The guys over at Brabus have a strange fetish with a) Mercedes-Bens and b) changing things.
Mercedes has an in-house tuning company, AMG, which takes care activities like turning an everyday C-class into a monster C63 AMG. Mercedes obviously couldn't be bothered.
How do these two (Brabus and AMG) correlate you might ask?
Brabus obviously thinks that AMG is quite silly and isn't trying hard enough to get ordinary Merc's to do extraordinary things.
Here's an example (in 2011):
Mercedes Takes a rather large slab of steel, hits it with a hammer a few times and pops out an S500, boasting a 5.5 Liter V8 with 382bhp.
When they're done with it it's AMG's turn. They drill a larger hole in the engine giving it a capacity of 6.2 Liters and manage to get 525 bhp to the crankshaft.
Brabus then laughs at AMG. They take the car, bling it up and make the engine angry so that it produces over 600bhp.
"Is that output sufficient, sir?" your butler might ask you if you're considering purchasing one. (If you don't have a butler don't be surprised if you can't afford one. Think Rolls-Royce prices)
Brabus also takes Mercedes' 6 Liter V12, gives it Between 700 and 800bhp and puts it in a C, E, CLS, CL, GLK, ML, GL or even a G-Class SUV. If you were one of the few to buy an SL65 Black series, they'll make that faster too.
Pointless?
Yes, but so cool.
A visual feast follows.
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| Brabus "Bullit" C-class |
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| Brabus 800 "Widestar" |
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| Brabus SL65 AMG Black Series |
