Bodo

The founder's Gran Turismo

The Brabus Bodo is the first supercar built under the company's own name: a 2+2 carbon coupé with a hand-built 5.2-litre V12 biturbo, 1,000 hp and an eight-speed automatic. Each of the 77 cars costs €1 million before tax.

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Power
1,000 hp (at 6,400 rpm)
Torque
1,200 Nm (2,900–5,000 rpm)
0 to 100
3.0 s (manufacturer figure)
Top speed
360 km/h (electronically limited)
Gearbox
8-speed (automatic, RWD)
Built
77 (announced series)

Overview

From a sentence the founder kept repeating to a 77-car series

Bodo Buschmann built Brabus from a Bottrop law student's side venture into the world's largest independent automobile refiner — and a registered vehicle manufacturer in Germany. One project stayed unfinished when he died in April 2018: the large Gran Turismo he had described for years. Under his son Constantin, the company developed it around a hand-built 5.2-litre V12 biturbo — 1,000 hp, 1,200 Nm, 360 km/h — clothed in a full carbon 2+2 body.

The finished car premiered as the Brabus Bodo on 16 May 2026 at FuoriConcorso on Lake Como, priced at €1 million export before VAT and limited to 77 cars — one for each year since 1977 — built to order in Bottrop at ten to fifteen a year. That summer the press car ran the Riviera above Monaco for its first official drives.

List price
€1.0M export, ex VAT
Market indication
€1.06M — list plus 6%
Series
77 cars
Production
10–15 a year, Bottrop
Unveiled
Lake Como, May 2026
Named after
Bodo Buschmann
Body
2+2 carbon GT

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Technical specifications

Powertrain

Engine
5,204 cc V12 biturbohand-built, with two specially developed turbochargers
Output
735 kW / 1,000 hp at 6,400 rpm1,200 Nm from 2,900 to 5,000 rpm
Gearbox
8-speed torque-converter automaticcarbon paddle shifters, rear-wheel drive
Differential
Electronic, up to 100% locking

Body and chassis

Construction
Carbon-fibre bodyworkpress reporting traces the platform to the Aston Martin Vanquish; Brabus does not name a donor
Dimensions
5.06 m long, 2.02 m wide, 1.30 m tall
Dry weight
1,774 kg
Tyres
Continental SportContact 7275/35 ZR 21 visible at the front axle of the launch car

Performance

0–100 km/h
3.0 smanufacturer figure
0–300 km/h
23.9 s
Top speed
360 km/h / 224 mphelectronically limited

The records

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0–300 km/h

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Heritage · Brabus Bodo

“A Gran Turismo. Attitude-forward, high-class, unapologetic — powerful and undeniably BRABUS.”

Bodo Buschmann's brief, as remembered in Bottrop
Brabus Bodo engine bay with carbon-covered 5.2-litre V12 biturbo and gold Masterpiece plaque
Brabus Bodo in satin black in side profile, long bonnet and fastback roofline
Brabus Bodo rear three-quarter view in the studio, carbon diffuser and quad tailpipes

The engineering

Twelve cylinders, two turbochargers, one thousand

The Bodo's 5.2-litre V12 is hand-built around two specially developed turbochargers: 735 kW at 6,400 rpm, with the full 1,200 newton-metres held from 2,900 to 5,000 rpm. An eight-speed torque-converter automatic with carbon paddles sends everything to the rear axle through an electronic differential that locks to 100 per cent.

The body is carbon fibre over a 5.06-metre footprint just 1.30 metres tall, and the dry weight is 1,774 kg. The results: 100 km/h in 3.0 seconds, 300 km/h in 23.9, and a limiter at 360.

The hands

The people behind the car

The people whose work shaped the Brabus Bodo.

Bodo Buschmann

Founder

Founded Brabus in Bottrop in 1977 while studying law, and built it into the world's largest independent automobile refiner. He described this car for years but never built it; he died in April 2018, and it now carries his name.

Constantin Buschmann

CEO

Bodo Buschmann's son, leading the company since 2018. He calls the Bodo the fulfilment of 'a vision that was very close to my father's heart for many years.'

Mili Umicevic

Creative Director

Joined Brabus in 2023 and took the creative direction in December 2025 — the house's design language, the Masterpiece cars' visual brief, and the fashion and lifestyle lines beside them. Trained in fashion in Hannover; she also runs the luxury property boutique Mili's Mansions. Constantin Buschmann's partner.

Brabus Bodo from behind at dusk above Monaco, taillight band lit against the evening sky
Brabus Bodo front wheel and carbon fender in low evening sun on the Riviera
Bodo Buschmann's signature embossed in the leather door panel of the Brabus Bodo

2026

Como, then Monaco

The Bodo premiered on 16 May 2026 at FuoriConcorso on Lake Como, alongside the Concorso d'Eleganza Villa d'Este — a deliberate stage: the golden-age Gran Turismos the founder loved, and the modern one built in his name.

By midsummer the launch car was photographed above Monaco at dusk, taillights spelling the company name across the tail. Inside, Bodo Buschmann's signature is embossed into the door leather — every one of the 77 cars carries it.

On the record

Milestones, on a line

The moments that set the Bodo's standing. Use the arrows, and hover a point to read what happened.

2018The unfinished brief
2026World premiere at Lake Como
2026First drives on the Riviera

April 2018

The unfinished brief

Bodo Buschmann dies at 62; his son Constantin takes over. One concept stays on the table — the founder's large Gran Turismo.

16 May 2026

World premiere at Lake Como

The Bodo debuts at FuoriConcorso during the Villa d'Este weekend: 1,000 hp, 77 cars, €1 million export before VAT.

Summer 2026

First drives on the Riviera

The launch car runs the roads above Monaco for the first official photography and press drives.