Archive for the 'Brabus' Category

Brabus 800 E V12 Cabriolet out-blacks AMG’s Black Series

Monday, July 11th, 2011

Black Series? Who needs one when you’ve got Brabus? Try this on for size: 0-62 in 3.7 seconds and a top speed of 231 mph. In a four-seat E-Class convertible. So, how did the German tuning house manage to convert a boulevard cruiser into a certified bruiser? Well, for starters, they took the V12 from the Mercedes-Benz S600, [...]

At 219 mph, the Brabus iBusiness 2.0 is the world’s fastest Apple-obsessed office

Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011

Brabus does bonkers. So when it decided to cook up the latest iteration of its rolling ode to executive connectivity, it went all out – both under the hood and inside the leather-clad cabin – so lets work from the inside out. The conversion of the rather staid Mercedes-Benz S-Class into the Brabus “iBusiness 2.0″ begins [...]

Brabus claims the world’s fastest, most powerful sedan with new SV12 R Biturbo 800

Wednesday, October 27th, 2010

Mercedes-Benz is no stranger to wickedly powerful and insanely fast luxury sedans. After all, its AMG models are among the fastest and most powerful on the market. Leave it to specialty Benz tuner Brabus, then, to take it the extra mile… and then some. The freshly unveiled Brabus SV12 R Biturbo 800 claims the mantle as [...]

Report: Washington to require that ‘quiet’ cars get alert sounds

Thursday, May 20th, 2010

Hands down, one of the few pleasures of driving a hybrid is cruising around in all-electric mode. There’s just something that’s undeniably cool about silently whisking along, but if a new auto safety bill makes its way into law, we can kiss even that one pleasure goodbye. A coalition of automotive manufacturers and advocacy groups for [...]

Infiniti FX50 S Dressed Up in Styling Package by Brabus' CRD Division

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009

Here’s a proposal from this year’s Frankfurt Show that somehow managed to escape our radar. Supposedly a concept study, the Infiniti FX50 S Limited Edition was created by Car Research and Development or CRD for short, a subsidiary of the Brabus Group that works directly with automakers and their national importers. Among other cars, CRD [...]