Autos

Normally the Canadians don’t get cool or special edition car models that are specifically made for their car market but for some reason Mercedes-Benz decided to unveil a special edition of the C63 AMG at the Montreal Auto Show.  Called the C63 AMG Affalterbach Edition (named after the German city where AMG’s factory is located), it will only be sold in Canada and will be produced in a limited number of 30 cars.

The Mercedes C63 AMG is a pretty sweet ride to begin with; the Affalterbach Edition adds a few more trim pieces to make the car even sweeter.  The car is painted in unique MAGNO Allanite Grey and comes with 19 inch rims that showcase the big red calipers.  Other aesthetic improvements include carbon fiber mirror covers and a subtle rear-spoiler lip, the carbon fiber gives the car a sportier look IMO.

Whatever you do, do not call this car a family sedan.  The Brabus Rocket 800 is, well, a rocket ship with four wheels and four doors and is the world’s fastest street-legal sedan with a top speed of 230 miles per hour!  That’s over 370 km/h four our metric readers.

German car tuning company Brabus is known for creating some outrageously fast Mercedes-Benz luxury cars that are visually quite different from their stock counterparts.  The Brabus Rocket 800 is based on the Mercedes-Benz CLS sports sedan, the car that introduced us to the “four-door coupe” category.

The Brabus Rocket 800 is powered by an army of demons, well actually, a crazy V12 engine that gets a little help from a set of turbocharges and it has been machined to increase displacement from 5.3 liters to 6.3 liters.  The Biturbo V12 engine produces a demonic 800 horsepower at 5,500 rpm and 1,047 pound-feet (1,420 Nm) of torque which has been electronically limited to 811 lb-ft.  The added power helps the CLS reach 62 mph in a lightning quick 3.7 seconds and 186 mph in 23.8 seconds.