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The Brabus 850 6.0 Biturbo 4Matic Means Business

Remember the Brabus 850 Shooting Brake 6.0 Biturbo 4Matic from yesterday? It's the fastest accelerating street-legal estate vehicle on the face of the Earth.
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The same powertrain put on the E 63 AMG, which shares its platform with the CLS 63 AMG Shooting Brake, results in... drum rolls... the fastest accelerating street-legal sedan on the planet.

The 5.5-liter M157 twin-turbocharged V8 in the “standard” Mercedes-Benz E 63 AMG has been almost completely reworked by Brabus engineers. The displacement has been increased from 5561 cc to 5912 cc, there's a new intake with gold wrapping, a new exhaust with electronically-controlled valves, larger compressors for the two turbochargers and a new ECU to keep all the aforementioned modifications running smoothly.

The result is a breathtaking 850 hp and a stratospheric 1450 Nm (1069 lb ft) of torque. Since that amount of torque would probably obliterate the seven-speed multi-clutch transmission and/or the 4Matic drive train, the engineers from Bottrop have limited it electronically to “just” 1150 Nm (848 lb ft).

Just like the 850 Shooting Brake, the Brabus 850 sedan can accelerate from 0 to 100 km/h (62 mph) in a neck-breaking 3.1 seconds, while its top speed is electronically limited to 350 km/h (217 mph).
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About the author: Alex Oagana
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Alex handled his first real steering wheel at the age of five (on a field) and started practicing "Scandinavian Flicks" at 14 (on non-public gravel roads). Following his time at the University of Journalism, he landed his first real job at the local franchise of Top Gear magazine a few years before Mircea (Panait). Not long after, Alex entered the New Media realm with the autoevolution.com project.
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