This black Mercedes-Benz G-Wagon Brabus 800 with a red interior is the most powerful vehicle in our Orange County fleet. Nobody books it to blend into a driveway, and the exhaust fills the cabin before you feel a thing. Book it for a video shoot, a birthday, or any occasion where it should be the most expensive thing in the frame.
788 horsepower in a vehicle built on a ladder frame is a genuinely absurd proposition, and the Brabus 800 is the most powerful thing in our Mercedes fleet by a wide margin. The gain over a stock G63 comes from larger turbochargers, a reworked intake and exhaust, and a full engine management rewrite, and you feel it as a harder mid range rather than a higher top end. Sixty arrives in 4.0 seconds. Point it up Ortega Highway and the extra torque out of the slow corners is the whole story. What is odd is how usable it stays, since permanent 4WD means the traction never runs out in traffic.
Black bodywork with a red interior on the highest specification Brabus build gives you the most dramatic reveal in our fleet. From outside, a wide, dark, carbon covered box on oversized wheels that reads as pure intimidation in a night frame near the Newport harbour. Open a door and the red leather changes the whole register. Build the shoot as a sequence rather than a set of stills. The Brabus badging, the exposed carbon and the exhaust treatment all deserve close frames, since those are the details that separate this from every other black G-Wagon in Orange County.
Most powerful vehicle in our entire fleet at 788 horsepower, and the top of the two Brabus builds we run. Our Brabus 700 makes ninety eight less horsepower and keeps an all black cabin. This one adds the red interior, which turns the doors open shot into a completely different frame from the exterior. Against our six standard G63s it is a different class of vehicle, rebuilt rather than optioned, and it is the pick when the booking itself needs to be the most expensive thing you have ever rented.
This is the Brabus 800 build on the G63, the Widestar body programme rather than a parts list: a carbon bonnet with a raised powerdome, wide carbon fender flares, forged Brabus wheels, and a valve-controlled exhaust with a quiet mode built in alongside the loud one. Power comes from the rebuilt 4.0 liter twin turbo V8 at 788 horsepower and 737 lb-ft, sent through permanent 4WD. This exact car is black over a red interior, the Brabus Masterpiece treatment applied to a fully red cabin. It seats five across four doors, with the same tall boot every G-Wagon in the fleet carries.