Punching above its weight
By fitting an enlarged and modified six-cylinder sourced from the 300 E into the 190 E, stripping it down to the bare essentials for maximum performance, and adding racing seats, a roll cage and a set of semi slicks, Brabus did not just throw down the gauntlet to Porsche with the resulting 190 E 3.6S “Leichtbau”, but instead raised a middle finger at them…
The German term “Leichtbau” roughly translates as lightweight, or more precisely light construction. Apart from half the interior missing and reduced sound deadening, there is little about this Brabus that could genuinely be called light. In fact, it is more of a heavyweight in disguise, engineered to take on anything that crosses its path and very much capable of punching well above its weight.
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