BRABUS Has A Go at Mercedes BlueEFFICIENCY Models

Oh yeah, now we're talkin'! BRABUS (all caps) cranks out a bunch of, well, run of the mill German tuner efforts (if you can call Mercs that put out a ghazillion horsepower "run of the mill"). There's not anything wrong with that, but making a powerful car more powerful is kind of like catching fish in a barrel. Making an efficient car faster, now THAT strikes me as more interesting.

And here we have BRABUS having a go at Mercedes BlueEFFICIENCY Models. Those would be the three-pointed star's latest, cleanest and most efficient engines. Sadly, this is not a tuning of the diesel BlueEFFICIENCY plants, and just as sadly it's "only" an ECU upgrade, but at least it's a start.

BRABUS specifically had an ECU re-do of for the Mercedes-Benz 200, 250 and 350 CGI BlueEFFICIENCY models with direct-injection gasoline engines. Outfitted with the BRABUS ECO PowerXtra CGI kit, the direct-injection four-valve four-cylinder engines in the Mercedes C200 and E200 CGI BlueEFFICIENCY models get an additional 26HP increase and a 30 Nm (22 lb-ft) of torque boost.

On the C250 and E250 CGI BlueEFFICIENCY Mercs, the BRABUS ECU tuning upgrade helps increase output from 204HP up to 230HP and peak torque escalates from 310Nm to 350Nm (228 to 258 lb-ft). Not bad.

The 3.5-liter V6 mill in the C350, CLS 350 and E350 CGI BlueEFFICIENCY models, the most powerful direct-injection gasoline engine in Mercedes-Benz's current range, that one gets a bump of an additional 18HP.

Like I said, this is a start. What I would like to see BRABUS, and other tuners for that matter, really dig into is getting big performance numbers out of diesel engined cars. And go full zoot too. If they are already tuning up a gasoline version of a given ride, I say dump the same suspension and body kits on the diesel-engined version as well.

And work on the engine too. More power, more efficiency and the more toys we get to play with.

Source: Car Scoop