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Who is Brabus? This is a German tuning studio specializing in improving the characteristics and productivity of standard vehicles for Mercedes-Benz, Maybach, and Smart Car.  Brabus-tuned vehicles offer several advantages over normal ones, including, obviously, alloy rims. Brabus rims are marked using Roman numbers. For example: Brabus Monoblock 4 (IV)Brabus Monoblock 2 (II)etc. To accommodate individual preferences and car requirements, ...

Meet the Brabus iBusiness, integrating the best of Apple and Mercedes to create a mobile office that makes you want to rethink your living situation. This Mercedes Benz S-Class isn’t only stocked with a twin-turbocharged 6.3-liter V12 engine that can produce 750 horsepower and 995 pound-feet of torque, but comes packed with two iPads, two seat-mounted multimedia screens, a 64GB ...

Over are the days of Apple CEO Steve Jobs being assisted by mysterious men in black suits and the occasional helping hand from Jonathan Ive. El Jobso is now taking his own car to work, which leads me to believe that is recovery from liver transplant surgery is moving along just fine. At least now he has an excuse to ...

If you’ve got some extra cash burning a hole in your pocket and you’re a fan of fast, luxurious cars, may I recommend checking out the new Mercedes Benz AMG Driving Academy that’s been set up in Lime Rock, Connecticut and Palm Beach, Florida. For a little under two grand, you can spend a day driving AMG-tuned (sorry, no BRABUS) ...

When most people see a Mercedes and think of performance tuning, the letters “AMG” come to mind. Understandable, but what most people tend to overlook is a little company based in Germany called BRABUS. You want your car tuned to the max? You go and visit BRABUS. Take, for instance, the 2009 Mercedes E-Class Coupe. BRABUS will turn the standard ...

For those of you not familiar with Maybach, it’s an extreme luxury car produced by Daimler/Mercedes that’s designed for the wealthiest of people. The latest model, the Landaulet, was announced last year and will now be available for order since the car is hand-built. At $1.4 million, you’ll discover that it’s one of the most expensive cars on the planet. ...

Smart, that lovely micro car company that everyone adores, is currently working on an all-electric version of the Smart ForTwo called the Smart Ed in London. While that’s all fine and dandy, just wait till you get a load of some of these numbers that Smart has put out during testing. An 8-hour charge gets up to 72 miles of ...

You never know what you’ll find when playing around with the 360-degree street view feature on Google Maps. For example, here is something spotted that we’re sure isn’t an experience that is to be remembered as a happy one. For some reason, someone (a woman no doubt) decided to slam her Mercedes into a pole, exactly where the panorama camera ...