05/26/2026
Brabus was founded in 1977. For nearly 50 years, every car it made was a Mercedes-Benz underneath. Then, in May 2026, they broke that rule entirely — and named the result after the man who started it all. 🔶
The BRABUS BODO is a tribute to Bodo Buschmann, the company’s founder, who passed away in 2021.
It is built on the Aston Martin Vanquish platform rather than a Mercedes-Benz — for the first time in Brabus history. Everything above the aluminium monocoque is Brabus’s own: a full pre-preg carbon fibre body with a long hood, low roofline, and wide rear section that Car and Driver compares to “a modern take on the C126 Mercedes 560 SEC coupe of the late 1980s.” An electrically deployable active rear spoiler doubles as an air brake at speed. Wheels: 21-inch Monoblock Z-GT “Shadow Edition” forged alloys wrapped in Continental SportContact 7 Force tyres developed specifically for this car. Total length: over 5 metres.
Under that long hood sits the Aston Martin 5.2-litre twin-turbo V12 — the same engine family used across the Vantage, DB12, and DBS — tuned by Brabus to produce 1,000 PS (986 hp SAE) at 6,400 rpm and 1,200 Nm (885 lb-ft) of torque, up from the standard Vanquish’s 835 hp.
Performance:
0–100 km/h in 3.0 seconds
0–200 km/h in 8.5 seconds
0–300 km/h in 23.9 seconds
Top speed 360 km/h (224 mph)
Weight: ~1,910 kg — large for a GT but consistent with its 5-metre-plus dimensions and carbon-ceramic brake hardware.
Price: over €1 million. Production: 77 units — a direct reference to Brabus’s founding year of 1977.
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