Tuners at IAA

A conversion of the BMW M3. It's mainly a road-homolagated Gr. A racer. The engine is 257 kW (350 HP) and it reaches 0-100 kmh and it's max. speed is 288 km/h. The additional panels are made of carbon-Kevlar.

Brabus:

They became the biggest independent German tuner head-to-head with Irmscher. Both of them rented space among the bigger manufacturers while others exhibited in a smaller space in the accessory area. The top of Brabus-converted Mercedes E-range is powered by a V12!

The E V12
Its V12 engine pumps out 582 HP (428 kW) from 7255 cc and has a torque of 772 Nm (570 lb ft) at 4000 rpm.
All this power and torque are fed through a beefed up five-speed automatic gearbox and the factory ASR system enables the impressive acceleration figures to be repeated consistently just by leaving the transmission in drive and pushing the throttle all the way to the plush carpet.
Brabus developed a sport chassis for the E V12. Rounding off this package is a braking system worthy of a Gr. C racing car. Large crss-drielled ventilated discs with four-pot calipers are used allround which give the E V12 the stopping power to match its accelerative ability.
Technical data: V-12 cylinder engine based on the Mercedes 600 unit. 7255 cc, bore x stroke: 91 x 93 mm, max. power 582 bhp (428 kW) at 6000 rpm, 772 Nm (570 lb ft) at 4000 rpm. Compression ratio 10:1.
Acceleration: 0-100 km/h: 4.5 s, max speed: 286-307 km/h, depending on rear axle transmission

Brabus 3.6 engine

The Brabus E 3.6 looks like the bigger beast, but with smaller engine.
Both Brabus and Carlsson featured a C-class with V8.

Dauer Racing

Dauer Racing 962R

Dauer Racing 962R - the cockpit

Extracts from the press release:
Super-sportrscar in pinstripe suit
Two years ago the Dauer 962 Le Mans was launched at the Frankfurt Motor Show. Dauer Racing's repuatation has since spread rapidly among sportscar-fans all over the world: Dauer Racing is reviving the myth of the five-time World Champion and six-time Le Mans-winner, the Porsche 962, as a street-legal sportscar.
The Dauer 962 LM won the 1994 edition of the 24 Hours Race at Sarthe.
The road-legal 962 Le Mans is exclusively built from genuine parts manufactured by Porsche and Dauer Racing. Its production is strictly limited to a batch of 50 with a price of 1.547.000 DM apiece.

Engine: Liquid-cooled six-cylinder boxer-engine, longitudinally installed amidships, 2 x dohc, four valves per cylinder, twin turbo chargers (KKK), charge-coolers, electronic-engine-management system (Bosch Motronic M 5.2), drysump-lubrication, catalytic converters. Displacement: 2994 cc, bore x stroke: 95 x 70.4 mm, performance: 537 kW (730 bhp) at 7600/min, torque: 700 Nm at 5000/min. Compression ratio: 9.0:1
Transmission: Fully syncromeshed five-speed gearbox, sintermetal-clutch, hydraulically operated, gearshift via butterfly, limited-slip differential, rear-wheel drive.
Sizes and weights: Two-seater sportscar with carbon-fibre/kevlar bodywork, aluminium-chassis.: Overall length/ widht/ height: 4600/ 1985/ 1050 mm; Kerb-weight: 1080 kg.
Performance: Max. speed: 402 km/h 0-100 km/h: 2.8 sec, 0-200 km/h 7.3 sec. More info: Dauer Racing Gmbh, Stahlstrasse 1, D-90411 N〉nberg, Germany. Hamann Motorsport Originally BMW tuners, but last year they modified their first Ferrari, an F40. And now here's the second one: the F512M Hamann F512M The V12 engine is modified with a stainless-steel high-performance exhaust with four 90 millimeter tail-pipes and a particularly remapped engine electronic control unit. After these changes there are available 35 hp/ 25.7 kW extra. With the 475 hps and the improved traction because of the wider rear wheels, the car catapults intself to 100 km/h in only 4.3 secs and is 321 km/h fast. Go back to the IAA report! Go back to the exotics page! (If you came from there :-) Copyright September, 1995

Max. speed: 402 km/h