Mercedes Brabus SL Review | Top Gear
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- čas přidán 15. 08. 2010
- Subscribe: bit.ly/SubscribeToTopGear Jeremy tests out and reviews the Mercedes Brabus SL before turning it over to The Stig.
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There's no such thing as too much power, only not enough grip.
I love that. It's a great saying to quote, really.
+by CDMC
The best comment on youtube.. like EVER...
imagine EXCACT same car but with 4Matic
That would be slower than the normal one.
It doesn’t matter, you probably drive a 99 horsepower prius. I bet you’ll scream like a little girl when you encounter 300hp haha
Rare clip of Clarkson admitting power isn't everything.
yaa and the F12 test
Paolo Fernando A rare 1.2 Million video. Yes.
FEGTTTSDH just about to type that
Well this car cant use all that power.
@@rmw904 how does the number of views makes this event any less rare? do you understand how frequency works?
When the current top gear is so trash that you are coming back to 8 year old TG videos.
#truthbomb
@@30redpillsaday71 lol
@@30redpillsaday71 so true
Hollow Knight that’s just sad
I like Chris and Leblanc personally.
What amazes me is how it still manages to look so modern.
not the interior though, i used to have a r230 sl55. the exterior looks nice but the interior didnt age well
@@mikelee7069 it's still a nice place to be
It looks super dated
Good designs are made to be timeless
All SLs look timeless.
Except the latest generation
Brabus ,for when AMG is not powerfull enough for you.
I mean hell....They have a few C classes & SLK's with V12 in them..Crazy stupid fast..lol...
Brabus; for when your AMG is not AMG enough
My Modded CL55 pushes out nearly 900 TQ and it handles it pretty good
@gottabump lmfao
doubleP brabus will never be the drivers car AMG is from what i know about brabus
this is what a german muscle car looks like
German hellcat
It has a v12 not v8. Would call the c63 more a muscle car
Suicidé A V8 doesn’t make a muscle car otherwise all the V6 mustangs etc would be what ?
@@donjon5442 he was talking about German muscle cars.. u goof
"Look out Tommy, zee Germans are coming!"
12 years later, still one of the best reviews and shows of all time
Agreed, made me happy, made me smile.
Because i love a Brabus Mercedes well as the Mercedes Black Series
putting a 6.3 litre v12 in a road car is insane
mrefiti A Comment which is almost 10years old Crazy
With a couple of turbos on it!
Rolls Royce Phantom:I do beg your pardon?
@@jacobbahr9316 that thing is bigger and heavier
@@paulkevin7417 Insane it is
This Gen of SL looks so much better than the new SL
+aram442 Really? The new SL sort of resembles a wider/longer AMG GTS (at least from the front)... its pretty nice?
amg gts is ugly. and those stupid ugly head and tail lights make new mercedes look like theyve got downs
The epitome of merc longnose coupe design. It is amazing how 1almost 15 years down the line with technology and wind tunnel perversion, this design still remains timeless and gorgeous as it first came out.
All the cars except american muscles used to look better and be better
No one cares about your subjective opinions random weirdo on the net.
I just realized that we made a big fuss because the Hellcat had 700hp. If this SL was still covered by warranty when it came out of Brabus then we should all be thinking that in 2010 people were crazier than now.
Hellcat is much cheaper though, and built in much bigger numbers.
Hellcat costs 80k instead of 160k
but the hellcat is american and the sl is german
@@Fantastika 80k vs 252k in todays money
for that you can get these ridiculous 2500hp gtr's who smoke bugattis like golfs
@@zairmalik2775 In a dragrace, yes, but not in a circuit race
The insanity of Brabus... 730bhp, 811 (I assume Nm) of torque, and 219 mph is still impressive today
1000nm.
Impressive? Laferrari, P1 have 217mph topspeed and you say impressive?.. What kind of monstrosity is that? Xd
@@siddharthckiller3047 Its a BRABUS
Siddharth Ckiller yeah go compare some of the most expensive supercars to a 10 year old Mercedes....
Yeah that 10 year old mercedes ain't playing
Limited to 219mph.
I laughed.
Yeah god! BTW, your comment is 9yrs old! great
Yash Wagh w
@@yashwagh83 i bet he’s dead
"1000 torque is what you would use for restarting a dead planet" jeremy has some of the best lines lol lol niiice! hahaha
The moment when Jezza is talking about the engine block being modified, but camera pans over ABS module in its polished shiny glory.. #cannotunsee
Isnt he lucky to get such a job. Always test run some of the best cars on earth.
BOING! If you are alive than respond
Can confirm, I once drove a Brabus tuned SL , and anytime I went near the gas pedal it would just light up the tires. It was great,but not for the Inexperienced for sure.
These editing were ahead of its time. Still holds up well today
My Grandma has a Brabus smart car.
Tyler cool g-ma
Tyler just cause it has a fake barbas badge 😂😂😂😂😂 ur nan spend 300k on it????
@@germalean88g77 Die kosten VIEL weniger....um die 40K
@@germalean88g77 brabus actually does tune smart cars, actually it's their main source of income
@@Fantastika main source of income. Lmao
Lol the days of good ole topgear! Now thank god we have Grand Tour!
Grand tour is very different, it was made to be full entertainment. this has some review value left.
Canada here...spied one near Toronto...soooo sweet...down to the Brabus rims! One love
I wonder how fast it would go if the limiter was removed.
No
The0rangePanda faster than 230mph
TapGamingHD DEFINITELY NOT
TapGamingHD Not even close 250mph, the car doesn't have almost any aerodynamic downforce, it would start floating around at these speeds
Not that much faster I mean yes it has 730 hp but it's still an SL Body and at these speeds every mph is exponentially harder to achieve then the last one
Claksson : Difting with a sl?
Mercedes : No impossible.
Brabus : hold my tools
This car is a work of art.
Still looks better than most cars made today and every loser pulls up and wants to race when they could hang if you gave em a head start.
Hey! i found my Feltzer!
Isn't it based more of the CL?
Looks more like a weeny issi tbh😂
starwars917 the feltzer is a mix betweein the slk55 and the sl65 black series.
Gta 4😂😂
The best looking Mercedes ever, in my opinion. My dream car.
are you sure? have u seen this? ;) sl65 black
topgear.nl/video/s13-e03-c01-mercedes-sl65-amg-black-series/
The standard SL65 Amg in 06 hit a top speed of 209mph (de-limited) It's also the German agreement of limiting their cars to 155mph. Nothing happens at all when you ECU flash the car (more bhp and speed limit removed) You just get more BHP and go faster.
Usually its because of the tyres, most sport tyres are rated for 250km/h. The car can do 300 or even 400 but the tyres would melt you would tune the car to go 350km/h.
"when they put it in the car it would not move the traction control just sat there saying this is impossible, and when the turned it off the rear wheels spun until the tires burst" that is how you know when you have too much horse power, but hey its brabus after all, they really don't believe in having to much of anything.
not trying to be rude, I think he was talking about the torques not horseys
roguedogx That's when you know, you need bigger tires!
Man, those numbers are still insane in 2020, this car was total madness
Its 2019 and I want this car badly....
i'll have the engine. 2 of them. thanks. it made me watch the entire clip. love it.
I had the chance to drive an SL55 AMG with 517PS which was already really quite insane. I guess the BRABUS SL is just for absolutely disturbed maniacs, far, far away from good or evil.
This is my favorite SL body from the last few decades.
This will always be one of my favourite old school Top Gear features, classic Clarkson. Set off my love affair with the R230 SL and C215 CL from this era, all those years ago.
I wish I had THAT hard Work!!!!!!! amazing car love the tyre squeal
These olds shows were dope.
I love the sound at 2:29.
This car is hugely underated, for it's abundance of hooliganism! So sick
My favorite car or all time. Awesome! Though incredible it didn't do any better on the track then the M5. They should had lightened the car with some carbon fiber materials.
This video is 12 years old now
Time flies 😳
And now depreciation has its benefits
Thanks for cutting it just before the last sentence, glad the Grand Tour is there.
I really miss the old Top Gear..
2019 anyone? What a car!
Mercedes claimed the top speed of even just the lowly SL55 AMG was over 200mph from the factory. They said the limited top speed of "just 155mph" was necessary due to no manufacturers making & selling 200mph capable DOT approved tires at that time. Not due to any design / engineering lacking or flaws. 200+mph tires did exist back then of course, but were manufactured for racing, and were not DOT approved for street use. This limitation was also true for every other super car sold in the USA during that period. The car itself was indeed designed for that level of speed from the factory, which is another reason why so many tuners gravitated to the R230 platform.
Every angle of the body work looks so good
i'm a BIG fan of BMW and MERCEDES i love both of the cars
What a spectacular car!!!
Old TG is so entertaining, Jeremy is the best.
You can see from 6:37 that the rollover protection has slid into place on the rear window. The same thing happened when Vicki drove the SL 55 AMG around Angel Sea. Over protected lol. I'm pretty sure the Stig was surprised when he turned in aggressively in the 1st corner on his power lap.
"I LOVE 'IM!" she shouted to the elements. "I, LOVE 'IM"
04:08 ''Reduzierte Bremsleistung - Werkstatt aufsuchen!''
= ''Reduced braking power - consult garage!''
04:08
abs fuse probably pulled out to disable stability control
Old top gear just hits different
@Wirld
thankx for the heads up on the issue
I want to see this sort of reviews on The Grand Tour. Enough with the scripted genitalia jokes.😓
Watch their latest episode on Season 2. The main event of the episode is completely unscripted and see what happens
Joel Arun truee.. It didn't work
Krishna Chaitanya funny thing is the old Top Gear was scripted too......
Jake N. Yeah but clearly not that heavily (I have only seen season 1 of TGT)
Catfish season 2 was much better and true to form
I probably watched this video half a million times. It was my absolute fav car when it came out and still is definitely in the top five. Astonishing and ridiculous at the same time but mainly MEAN
Love this sl design, even the lower end models
Awesome thing. And looks amazing in black!
I used to work at a Benz dealership and one of these came in to get service done on it, I was in love 😍
What year and dealership was that?
vp5 2017-2018 in Northern California
I love this show :)
I would love to have seen Brabus tune up an SL65 AMG Black Series. Incredible looks with Brabus engineering would have been a sight to see.
The quality of the old topgear shows!!!!
Limiting a car to 218 mph is the most German thing I've ever heard.
The fastest I ever go was in the audi a6 from my uncle. Quaddro 3.0 straight 6 zylinder turbo Diesel. At 173 I stopped accelerating. Holy fuck the trucks seem to drive backwards.
@@toniadvanced7726 173 mph or kph lol tires were speed limited so thus manufacturer limits it an adds a couple mph to your readout to b safe
It sounds like a freaking tiger roaring! :D
Saw this car when I played Need For Speed Most Wanted. Bought it as soon as I could and LOVE IT. To this day, I'm not a Mercedes fan but this is still at the top 5 of my favorite cars.
I have learned today that the brabus engines blocks were made in a shed in dortmund. Crazy when you think about it...
I'd Top your Gear
How am I just finding out about this video?
Still have mine. Breaks every time you drive it but it goes like hell
these guys got the best job on the planet
2018,anyone??
meee
Yes
2019
Nope
Imagine the middle of the hood with a glass view of that awesome motor
🖐🇵🇹
A V8 murrrr
Glorious! I mean production of this era.
You gotta love stigs playlist
I clicked on a link to watch in HD lol...
A 1000 torques are used to restart a dead planet.
So what would the 2930 torques of the Jaguar C-X75 concept do?
TrotelHD restart 2.93 dead plamets
Andrew Samy So Jaguar will be the one who will bring earth back alive in a couple thousand years.
Well, "stay being a concept"
Pervy Sage Unfortunately.
Limeddäsch it is a stillborn concept
This is literally my favorite car,😍
Damn, this car still looks stunning, such great design.
LOL "1000 torques is what you use for restarting a dead planet." So what could you do with 1600 torques coming from a Kenworth W900 or something?
I think he means 1000 torque-per-tonne, as this car is a hell of a lot lighter than a W900, or any semi, for that matter. Also, with 1600 torque, you could kick-start a new galaxy.
GoredonTheDestroyer
I think he means 1000 torques = 1000 ft-lb of torque actually. It's just easier and shorter for him to say "torques" because they have to say it over and over in the show. That is the same unit as a Kenworth W900 with 1600 lb-ft of torque. It makes sense that you would need that much torque in a transport when you're pulling 110,000 lbs from a dead stop, even up a small incline sometimes. But in a lightweight car, it is a lot.
Or 3500 from a Scania 750.
A little more then two Kennworth w900 ;-)
+GoredonTheDestroyer What he actually means is this engine produces 973ft-lbs from 2100rpm, pretty savage torque in a road car.
Ale S Scania V8's are the absolut best
CZcams Recommendation:
2010: no
2011: no
2012: no
2013: no
2014: no
2015: no
2016: no
2017: no
2018: no
2019: no
2020: hey how about now lol
that camera work was nothing short of art.
I really miss the original Top Gear. Used to watch this stuff back in 2006.
The Brabus SL can hit nearly 230 mph
This has a higher topspeed than a aventador
If this car had awd it would lick the avantador of the line as well
My dad has a sl63 amg 2008 performance pack it’s so nice
The normal guy my friends dad has an e63 amg 2007 and it was on top gear once
Soft racing slicks and the torque de-limited would be insane.
I had this car (the stock AMG one) in Gran Turismo 4 :) 731HP with tuning
Who ask
Nice one
brabus=fast
Wow 11 years ago. Man how time flies.
I remember when this first hit youtube..
So weird
That Brabus Is A Monster!
That's just a little too powerful
Why didn't they make it 4*4 drive? That would of worked with the 1000 torque.
It would not be a Spotilich-Leicht if it was a four wheel drive.
@TornTech no when u video tape light from a certain angle it does that weird pulsing thing
when he popped the hood I got chills haha
AAAAAI LOVE 'IM!!!!!!!!
When you see the egine is Something like God(Signature)
This is a dreamcar
Yes
torque vader. It's basically and overpowered muscle car. Even though it has extremely better traction, inless your bruce wayne it too much money.
OMG! BUY ME ONE!!!!! :D :))))))
Did you get one bro yet?
@@Giannis681980 No bro. Haven't had a Merc yet. Two BMWs so far and one brand new Skoda Octavia last year. 😅
@@drackula1985 LOL
love that merc
That ABC was workin OT.