Turbo charged Mercedes Brabus SL - Top Gear series 9 - BBC

It's especially tricky if you start with something like this Mercedes sl65 517 horsepower v12 twin

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. I mean, how can a tuning company make this better than it already is? And if they could, what kind of monster would you end up with? Well, you would. end with this, the most powerful convertible ever made. Welcome everyone to the £160k BRABUS Bi

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roadster. The secret tool. This speed, of course, is the engine. What BRABUS does is take the standard Mercedes v12 and then throw away almost everything, only the cylinder block remains and even that was modified. Everything else is new, new and bigger.

The original car has five and a half liters. This is a 6.3 and the result of that is a spectacular 730 brake horsepower, which is more than any Bentley, it's more than any Ferrari. Any Lamborghini, of course, it's not really that difficult to get 730 horsepower out of an engine, but it's hard to put all that power into it and it's impossible when the engine produces an almost ridiculous 1,000 torques, a thousand talks is what you'd use. to restart a dead planet is so much that when they put the engine in the car it didn't move at all the traction control just stayed there, this is impossible and when they turned off the traction control the rear wheels spun until the tires exploded like a As a result, they have now limited it to just 811 conversations, which is about what you would use to power a medium-sized aircraft carrier.

At this point you're probably waiting for me to tell you that they also limited the top speed and I'm afraid they have to hit 219 miles per hour, the top speed is incredible but the way it gets there stuns a hundred helicopter gunships. I guess I should explain at this point that Mercedes limits this car to 155 miles per hour because that's the limit of what various components can handle, so if you're going to get it to go 290 miles per hour, those components have to be changed, that Discreet body kit, so it's not for show, it's there to keep me on the ground, which is useful when we're going 320 feet per second and what kind of underfloor engineering does the BRABUS have to keep it under control? at this kind of speed?

In short, everything is very big. The brakes are the size of trash can lids and have 12 pistons each. The tires could. encompasses Neptune and his speed, the entire cast is positioned lower than normal on the road by 50 millimeters, so it didn't really work, even though they were exhausted during the ride, it's still too much every time you get close to the truck, even in a straight line. you just take control of the tracks off, even if you turn off the traction control of this bigger Mercedes, of course, what the brakes stop, whether it's desperately trying to control the mountain of torque, just wasting time, honestly, you can too cause a fire on an oil platform.

I have to develop a new technique that involves slamming on the brakes and then going very slowly, eating up the power and still squirming the traction control. It's a very hard work. This and worse, after a worryingly short period of time, the brakes were completely on. still shot at least this meant I could pull over and stop the madness in terms of driving then this car is a nightmare it just can't cope with the volcano below guys your truck is also proof that absolute power really does corrupt . absolutely, so it's nonsense, well, we'll find out now by putting it on our track and then of course handing it over to our docile racing driver.

Some say that if you lick the breast, it tastes exactly the same as piccalilli and that right now. At last week's Brit Awards he was arrested for cheating on Russell Brand, all we know is that he called the Stig. His tires struggle to contain all the torque that accumulates in the first corner and there is already a powerful fight between the traction control and the Stig. Look at that amazing. When driving you could hear each other's heartbeats as if they shared only one between them. Stig's collection of talking looks airs again. There is a balance in Chicago to not urinating so quickly.

I have to say, it's a crazy car, this thing with computers, but might I have a hard time doing it? try to keep it in order, she had to make the elements. I love it during tracking. He really finished here, he made up for some lost time, but he must have even lifted the Stig. It's not that stupid, it just doesn't look like that. Fast, you just can't turn on the power when you want in the penultimate corner, just keeping it on track through Gambon, you can barely contain the explosion and on the other side of the line a completely predictable 26.2 and the problem is very simple, okay, Mercedes? spend a million pounds a day on research and development, a million a day to have the best brains in the world and all the money in the world to make the standard car the best it can be, but I don't think that This is the end of tuning companies because those who look at the Jaguar here, okay, they spent P35 designing this.

Do not get wrong. I love it, it's beautiful, but I think you can get more power out of the V8 under this hood. This is the prime candidate for someone to come and cheer up a little. You are right, you are right and, furthermore, we are British, we are the inventors of everything. It's time to prepare and free ourselves. from the abyss can be darkened by the lights of perverted German science