We tested the Brabus 800 on a wet and dreary day around the Brabus Facility in Bottrop, hardly the ideal conditions to unleash the full 800bhp but that didn’t stop us from trying. Thankfully, the all-wheel drive system coped surprisingly well with the conditions.
The first thing you notice is that the car behaves very similar to its donor car at normal speeds. The seats grab you comfortably and give you added support in the corners, and you notice slight differences in the interior such as the bespoke paddles to manually operate the speedshift gearbox; they have a much shorter throw that the original pieces. And then you put your foot down and the world goes backwards. TV presenter Jeremy Clarkson once stated that under the hood of a Brabus lies a Volcano and I can only add to that.