W210 E-Class Brabus 7.3-Liter Tire Shredder
With a Giant 7.3-liter V12 Putting out Nearly 600 Horsepower and 575 lb-ft of Torque, the Competition Never Stood a Chance
The second-generation E-Class was once a ludicrously-fast sedan. Not a stock E-Class, though. Those were a little staid and slow at the time. But when German tuning house Brabus got involved, they took a V12 straight out of the day’s S-Class, and shoehorned it into the engine compartment of a W210.
This Brabus V12 E added to a long line of German muscle sedans with way more power than necessary. In its day, this was the most powerful street-legal Mercedes of all time. And those 12 cylinders pushed the car to an electronically-limited 205 miles per hour. All that power is on impressive display in the video above.
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With that much power on tap, it isn’t difficult to put your foot down, sidestep the clutch, and roast the rear meats for as long as you like. Or at least until they pop. That’s right, this big-power ’90s beast has three pedals. Because an automatic would simply be too civilized for such a machine. Why wouldn’t you want to row your own gears when there is 580 horsepower on tap under your right foot?
We’re just not sure how much we’d enjoy driving this thing on anything other than the straightest, flattest, smoothest sections of the Autobahn. With a monster like this super sedan, things can get out of hand pretty quickly. It apparently doesn’t take too long for this big sedan to get up to 205 miles per hour, either. As amazing as this car is, just imagine the twin-turbocharged version of this engine, which Brabus installed in the W211 generation E-Class.
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