The Mercedes V-Class is one of the most extensive models in the star range. For sale only with diesel versions, the Germans at GAD-Motors have transformed the minivan into a true sports car, a challenge achieved by managing to implement the genes and power of AMG in a unique tuning exercise.
The only high-performance minivan to be found in the AMG range was the Mercedes R-Class 63 AMGa model that was sold in 2007 in Europe and the United States with a maximum power of 510 hp, definitively disappearing from the market in September 2017. Since then, Mercedes has not offered a high-performance version in either of them. minivans offered.
Its familiar characteristics did not prevent it, since those of AMG also put the Estate and the SUV at hand, and it does not intimidate them at all. Something that the Germans of GAD-Motors they missed very much when they had to make a trip aboard a Mercedes V-Class rented. The idea began to take shape on a trip, ending up getting a unit of this large minivan for his usual trips. There was only one problem, it was the diesel version of the V 250 d with a maximum output of 190 hp. The challenge? Install the 4.0-liter twin-turbocharged V8 from the brand from Affalterbach.
Take a look at the transformation of the Mercedes V-Class from GAD-Motors
GAD-Motors achieves the impossible in the Mercedes V-Class
The Germans have managed to overcome the challenge and with flying colors, taking the V-Class to an unmatched level in terms of performance, power and exclusivity, because under the front hood it has this powerful gasoline engine, but retouched for the special occasion. The entire exhaust system including catalytic converter and particulate filter were replaced new ones, also including a new oil cooler and even the 9-speed automatic gearbox «9G-Tronic».
Those of GAD-Motors have managed to rip him off a really wild power figure, with no less than 900 hpwhich also forced them to install the 4MATIC all-wheel drive to increase safety and improve braking capacity by adding the carbon-ceramic discs. Truly unprecedented components in a model of these characteristics, and in a specific V-Class. What they have not touched has been the interiorwhich remains unchanged, and is comfortable enough to travel like first class.
The preparer will use this first creation as a method of promotion, although they have also decided to manufacture a small series, ten units per year in order to maintain its exclusive character. What is unknown is when it will go into production, something that is supposed to be on express demand and after paying a large deposit, since its price is also unknown. What is certain is that it cannot be cheap…