Feed Your Inner Child With The 888bhp Brabus Rocket 900
Admit it: the 10-year-old in you is doing a little happy-dance right now. This is the gloriously excessive Brabus Rocket 900, and yes, it does have one of the most childishly awesome names ever given to a car.
It’s called that because it has 900 metric horsepower, or 888bhp in English, and goes like the proverbial Soyuz. Brabus, which has a long and hilarious history of tuning Mercedes cars to their extremes and beyond, has taken the 6.0-litre V12-powered Mercedes-AMG S65 Cabriolet and decided that, actually, it wasn’t fast enough. Someone in Bottrop might have had one beer too many this time…
The tuning process starts with more capacity. The V12 has been bored and stroked to 6.3 litres, with a special Brabus billet steel crankshaft and con-rod set. The exhaust manifolds are new, the new turbochargers are larger and there’s a free-breathing exhaust system making all the noise.
Peak power, if you can extract it without being killed, is yours at just 5500rpm. Peak torque, a truly terrifying 1106lb ft, comes in at 4200rpm… or at least it would if the gearbox could take it. Since it can’t, torque has been limited to 885lb ft. Damn.
Brabus has also added a limited-slip differential, which you’ll probably need rather more often than in most other cars, and whether the fabric roof is up or down the driver has options to control exhaust flaps that switch the sound “from Dr Jekyll to Mr Hyde.” We don’t doubt that.
Performance is epic. The 0-62mph sprint won’t break any records at 3.9 seconds – the car is quite heavy, after all – but it will monster onwards past 217mph, says Brabus. That’s as fast as the F1 cars were achieving at Monza even with a tow from a car in front. In a convertible.
New aerodynamic add-ons reduce lift, including front and rear spoilers that help to balance the car across both axles at high speed, reducing front axle lift – something fast Mercedes have long been guilty of. Special 21-inch Brabus forged wheels are capable of withstanding the high top speeds. All of these extras are also available on the aftermarket for any S63 or S65 owners looking to sharpen their cars’ look.
We also like the revised speedometer, which now reads all the way up to 250mph. That’s another box enthusiastically ticked by your inner child. Best not to ask about fuel economy or emissions, because they’re neither interesting nor helpful when you’d rather be busying yourself with altering your life plans to allow yourself to buy a used one in 30 years or so…
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inner 40 year old
Even your inner 40-year-old has an inner 10-year-old.
*Inner tyre wall.
Inner child? More like inner pensioner.
That might be one of the most useless versions of a car I’ve ever seen, along with the X6M.
Why in the world would you get this? Even a S65 AMG Coupe would have been better for that. This is a grand tourer, with the AMG versions making it a sporty grand tourer. It has no need for that much power, honestly. This is a cabriolet, not a supercar.
A E63 AMG Coupe or C63 AMG Coupe would all have been better for that, but the most relax, “sluggiest” AMG tourer car in the catalog? Just no.
“That might be one of the most useless versions of a car”
Thats the whole point.
This is not for car enthusiasts, but for sheer “I have so much money that I can pay hundreds of thousands for stuff which everyone considers to be pointless”
Plus its good for Brabus’s marketing
There are, in my eyes, three ways this exists. People with speed glands who just wanna go fast. Two, Germany and super highways. Three, brabus has done this before and made lots of money off of it, so why not do it again!
Brabus Rocket 900 kit is already available for the S65 Coupe and Sedan. The 63 cars don’t have the V12 the kit relies on. Also, not everything has to make sense.
inner child ? I’M A CHILD XD
12 years old and love it lol
I don’t think a kid will be able to afford it.
I hope it sounds like a zonda…
There would be many reasons my inner child won’t like that
Tbh I don’t like the big “B” on the grill..
Just get rid of the whole convertible thing and it would be perfect.
Jesus that’s fast