Every few months, a tuner or automaker comes up with a new ultra-powerful police car for a lucky law enforcement agency to drive at high speed while enforcing the laws of the land. We’ve seen a Lamborghini police car, but a Gallardo is hardly a practical law enforcement vehicle.
That’s why Germany’s Brabus and teamed up with the “Tune It Safe” program to build a police versrion of the “Brabus Rocket” souped up Mercedes CLS. The V12 four-door has been described as the fastest “sedan” in the world, capable of reaching 62 mph in four seconds thanks to an amazing 730 horsepower.
Generally, police cars like these — capable of 225.19 mph — don’t make a lot of sense, but Germany’s unlimited speed highways mean the cops might actually be able to enforce laws without simultaneously breaking other ones. The car is on display at the Essen Motor Show this month. Gallery after the jump…
11/16, 6:18 PM
posted by:
bacalao
wow…. i dunno what to say i had a bad experience with police last friday night at 1am so i cant say im very glad they have a car that gorgeous
11/16, 6:22 PM
posted by:
Andre Neves
How will they catch that Hyabusa that just flew past ‘em?
With the Fuel mileage that thing gets, doesn’t look like they will be pulling many people over on long pursuits.
11/16, 7:21 PM
posted by:
gumby
Damn, that is rediculous
but gorgeous
11/16, 7:40 PM
posted by:
Egbert Souse
They should replace those lights with the LED ones the cops have in the States to improve aerodynamics, or the ones that go inside the windshield. But with a 225 mph top speed I dont think they’ll bother
11/16, 7:41 PM
posted by:
Egbert Souse
BTW nice cop car
11/16, 7:47 PM
posted by:
Andre Neves
Egbert,
Im no expert but im almost 100% sure that that lightbar will rip off anywhere around or above 200mph. Atleast the roof will start pulling where it is bolted down from.
Wanna know how to loose one of these if you see yourself getting pursued by one? Just exit and start taking turns, something this probably won’t do well. All that weight will definately show in the twisties.
11/16, 7:59 PM
posted by:
Don
730 hp and only 4 seconds?
11/16, 8:06 PM
posted by:
Hidden_Hunter
yeah 4 seconds I mean wtf, there is so many other cars that can do that…
11/16, 8:33 PM
posted by:
Jimbo - G Mill$
and i thought European countries were better at investing tax dollars. even if they were to police the streets with ferraris… the tax dollars would be better spent then in America tho. =/
11/16, 8:34 PM
posted by:
nowei
As far as taking turns is concerned, I know the regular CLS55 AMG made it around the Top Gear test track quicker than a Viper SRT-10, although not as quickly as an M5.
/no
11/16, 8:46 PM
posted by:
gitcypher
Moral of the story:
If you steal a car, do it big. Steal a Veyron.
11/16, 9:44 PM
posted by:
Tomzy
That’s some scary ****…
11/16, 10:07 PM
posted by:
LamborghiniZ
This is sweet. Not as sweet as the Lamborghini Gallardo cop car they made though
11/16, 10:15 PM
posted by:
Namir
more practical than that gallardo. at least you can arrest someone and not have him sitting shotgun.
as far as the light bar….. they should have at least been LED’s. At 200+ im guessing aerodynamics becomes an issue. Lights in the windshield would have been the best choice.
11/16, 10:32 PM
posted by:
Egbert Souse
“That’s why Germany’s Brabus and teamed up with the “Tune It Safe” program to build a police versrion of the “Brabus Rocket”"
LLN must have fired their spell checker
11/16, 11:24 PM
posted by:
Jaguar Sovereign
That is great but the civilian version is 510,000 US are they going to spend that much on the cop car as well? kind of ridiculous.
11/17, 12:40 AM
posted by:
56oval
Love the lightbar off the ‘79 Crown Vic…. Come on!
11/17, 2:43 AM
posted by:
gumby
complaining about the weight? i mean,l it’s a cop car, it needs to be able to take some hits, that is also why it can “only” do 0-60 in 4 sec, give it some credit, that is still fast, most cars in the world can’t do that
. Plus, i think it would be pretty good around corners, it isn’t just tuned to its engine
11/17, 7:56 AM
posted by:
megator
I’m pretty sure that no taxpayer money has gone towards this car. This is something that brabus had made as a flight of fancy in order to promote thmselves. They might donate it to the police later. The gallardo cop car was a present from lambo to the italian police. Ferrari and lambo used to do this so that the police wouldnt be to harsh on ppl they caught speeding in their cars.
11/17, 8:28 AM
posted by:
V1ltR
Sexy but it’s still a cop car…
11/17, 9:28 AM
posted by:
Wickedated
The Lambo cop car is better
11/17, 10:34 AM
posted by:
Fatstrat
Neves, you mean, “how will they catch that Hayabusa” that was trying to keep up with the ZX14?
11/17, 10:43 AM
posted by:
Andre Neves
^which is trying to get the attention of the Bugatti Veryon that’s way up ahead.
11/17, 11:40 AM
posted by:
gumby
Lambo may look better, but it doesn’t do the job any better, try stickin some people in the bacck of that, kinda difficult
11/17, 5:33 PM
posted by:
A4
looks like brabus needs to call up whelen for a slicker lightbar
11/17, 10:23 PM
posted by:
bneshev
hey, in Bulgaria there are a few Porsche Carerra police cars…!!! Sweet!
11/17, 10:32 PM
posted by:
megator
holland used to have a couple 911s in order to catch high speed cars. but they became too expensive so they dont have them anymore.
11/18, 1:00 AM
posted by:
WonbyOne
That light bar has the aerodynamics of a barn door.
11/18, 5:17 PM
posted by:
nowei
is it possible to have anymore people making the exact same comments about the lightbar?
especially since this car is so fast that it will outpace the light emmanating from the bar, making it completely unnecessary.
/no
11/20, 5:16 AM
posted by:
1c3d0g
Awesome. Go Police Go!
11/20, 6:05 PM
posted by:
Fatstrat
Doubt Brabus had one iota to do with the bar. Probably specified by a second party manufacturer. Different jursidictions have different requirements about the visibility needs for service vehicles. The aeros probably are bad, but that is also probably secondary to the need to be noticed.
11/26, 1:59 PM
posted by:
dual1ty
I’m wondering how long it is going to take for me to see one of those on the autobahn. A beautiful police car.