What Car?

[Mich the Tester]

With a discrete Brabus logo, I hope

I'm not as rich as Dimprawn yet!

[ThomasSoerensen]

I'm not as rich as Dimprawn yet!

And if you want to become so, you better not spend your monies on overpowered cars.
They are fun though.

[Mich the Tester]

And if you want to become so, you better not spend your monies on overpowered cars.
They are fun though.

How would an E-Class Brabus handle in the snow?

Would I have to have grown up in Finland, driving Dad's car around on ice from 5 years old, to be able to get to the shops today?

[ThomasSoerensen]

How would an E-Class Brabus handle in the snow?

Would I have to have grown up in Finland, driving Dad's car around on ice from 5 years old, to be able to get to the shops today?

I don't know.

Only if Brabus had reprogrammed the traction control system and enabled it to be complete switched off.

As long as you are not a crude fool, you can drive a powerfull RWD slowly in on snow.

[ThomasSoerensen]

you can see here Brabus - Tuning fr Mercedes-Benz that you only get 462 bhp - should not be unmanageble.

[ThomasSoerensen]

of course if you opt for this one Brabus - BRABUS Supercars you might have to restrain yourself a bit in snowy conditions

[darmstadt]

As long as you are not a crude fool, you can drive a powerfull RWD slowly in on snow.

I've been doing that with mine recently (and used to with the AMG.) Today it snowed like tulip in the afternoon so I thought I'd bugger off early so I wouldn't have to spend another few hours doing Citroen 2CV speeds on the motorway. The town roads were just pack ice with snow on top and the car would go all over the place but not once did the wheels spin, turn off the traction control. The motorway in places was a bit (lot) snowy but still managed speeds of 150+ so it only took a couple of hours. The only problems were when just round the corner from home where the snow is very deep so the car was bottoming out and the spoiler acting as a snow plough. One thing I don't do is put it in 'S' mode like last week as that was rather scary and don't kick down 2 gears as the back end just decides to not exist anymore...

[ThomasSoerensen]

can you switch the traction controll off completely?

[Bagpuss]

A guy at work bought an Alfa, I told him not to after hearing so many bad stories about them over the years, many being new engines needed. Within 2 weeks the brakes started making annoying noises, then it started pulling to the left. At the moment he's getting random warning lights.

The tale of the poster who couldn't get his money back kind of makes sense. I've had 2 Jap cars and the customer service has been exceptional (no arguments, no assuming you are taking the proverbial). Why is that? Because they don't spend all their time dealing with complaints about poor reliability, so when the customer isn't satisfied it's so rare they really want to do something about it. If you know the product is sh1te then the only ways not to go bankrupt is either improve it or pretend it isn't a problem and treat the customer like a nuisance.