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If you can look past the frankly vulgar exterior - the rest is quite nice.
| Quote: To help the E V12 cope with its newfound power, a heavily modified aerodynamic package has been fitted, ranging from new front and rear aprons and fenders to special cowlings in the rear BRABUS calls "Speed Spads," with the ultimate goal of course to streamline airflow while providing additional cooling to the various components. |
| Quoting GrahamHill (Reply 1): then it looks damn ugly!! |
| Quoting Cpd (Thread starter): If you can look past the frankly vulgar exterior - the rest is quite nice. |
| Quoting KC135TopBoom (Reply 2): Maybe that is why it can go by you at 230 MPH??? |
| Quoting GrahamHill (Reply 1): Is this really necessary? I understand the necessity on a Jag XJR9 or 12 at Le Mans, but for a road car, what's the point? Do you really reach 230 mph daily? |
| Quoting GrahamHill (Reply 3): I have no doubt about it. But I'd rather have a max speed of 200 mph and have these "speed spads" off the car. |
| Quoting Marquis (Reply 6): There is a version without those aerodynamic fittings over the rear wheels, which is called the Brabus E V12 with "only" 740 bhp and 217mph topspeed. |
| Quoting BMI727 (Reply 9): The limiting factor here is probably traction. |
| Quoting Rabenschlag (Reply 5): OMG, what a vulgar, tacky pimpmobile (successful pimp though).... |
| Quoting Cptkrell (Reply 8): I dunno; at first blush, it's kind of a pig. A whole 3.7 seconds to 62 mph? For that money? Done better than that over two decades ago with stove-bolt Detroit Iron. |
| Quoting Superfly (Reply 11): You can get a Chrysler 300C SRT8 for a lot less with stats that come pretty close to this thing. That is also a family car. |
| Quoting Fbgdavidson (Reply 12): These high end performance vehicles have always been a case of diminishing returns. You spend several times the price to shave a second or so off the 0-60 or buy yourself another 100lb/ft of torque. |
| Quoting Cpd (Thread starter): Whoever said you can't have practical and fun to drive cars? |
| Quoting BMI727 (Reply 9): The limiting factor here is probably traction. |
| Quoting Fbgdavidson (Reply 12): 425bhp, 0-60 in 4.9 seconds, 420lb/ft of torque. |
| Quoting Flighty (Reply 18): Here in America, this stuff is so pointless. I have a 200hp car that's way, way too fast for me, and I drive faster than most people. So who needs a 400hp car? What can it do? In America, nothing. It just wastes gas. It's like an airline buying a jet with too much power. Operationally, it never gets used. |
| Quoting Superfly (Reply 11): Done better than that over two decades ago with stove-bolt Detroit Iron. I was thinking the same. The 1969 Dodge Polara comes to mind and that was a family car too. |
| Quoting Flighty (Reply 18): So who needs a 400hp car? What can it do? |
| Quoting WildcatYXU (Reply 21): Flighty, who needs a 200 hp car? I used to drive an 85 hp Suzuki Baleno in the old country at speeds that would make me a public enemy here in Ontario... |
| Quoting T prop (Reply 23): Should have gave it 3000 horsepower and a top speed of 400 mph, wouldn't make a difference, it's no use. No one will drive one of these at a race track and no one will drive 200 mph on the street. |
| Quoting Flighty (Reply 18): Here in America, this stuff is so pointless. I have a 200hp car that's way, way too fast for me, and I drive faster than most people. So who needs a 400hp car? What can it do? In America, nothing. It just wastes gas. It's like an airline buying a jet with too much power. Operationally, it never gets used. |
| Quoting Flighty (Reply 18): So who needs a 400hp car? What can it do? In America, nothing. It just wastes gas. |
| Quoting Prebennorholm (Reply 16): You should buy it now! Before it's too late. It is only approved to the old "EURO IV emission standard". When will it be mandotory for new cars to fulfill the EURO V standard, is it 1st Jan 2011 or 2012 ? |
| Quoting Flighty (Reply 18): Here in America, this stuff is so pointless. I have a 200hp car that's way, way too fast for me, and I drive faster than most people. So who needs a 400hp car? What can it do? In America, nothing. It just wastes gas. |
| Quoting T prop (Reply 23): Should have gave it 3000 horsepower and a top speed of 400 mph... |
| Quoting Fridgmus (Reply 20): Dodge Polara's with 440 Six Packs and others, can't remember which ones, help me out here Superfly! There was one Ford model with a 429 CID that was also pretty popular. |
| Quoting Fridgmus (Reply 20): Anyway, guys would get these cars at auctions or from private individuals and take out the motor and the tranny, junk the rest and then rebuild or soup them up and put them in Mustangs, Chargers or hot rods for the Quarter Mile etc. Cheap hi performance! |
