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.
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).
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).