My 500bhp, £400k Brabus is atrocious – but I’ll never sell it

The ride is horrendous and the steering doesn’t really do anything,” says Tom

This £400k behemoth might be thirsty and uncomfortable but owner Tom loves it

“I could drive it to the moon and back and run over everything on the way,” says Tom Exton about his Brabus Mercedes G500 4×4², also known as the G500 Squared. I don’t doubt it.
In addition to the ‘regular’ Squared’s gains over the standard G500 (more than twice the ground clearance, thanks to the fitment of portal axles, a wider body, deeper wading capability, larger 22in wheels and steeper approach and departure angles), its Brabus-tweaked bi-turbo 4.0-litre petrol V8 produces 493bhp, up from 416bhp.
Not that Tom claims to care much about any of this. Instead, for him, that it can conquer almost any terrain is sufficient reason to own it: “You can drive up and down flights of stairs, through lakes and all sorts of useful stuff – although I’ve yet to experience any of that driving around Wimbledon Common.”
He bought his G-Wag