Brabus P900 Rocket Edition: 900-HP G63 Pickup Truck
Brabus has never needed an excuse to make the G-Wagen more ridiculous, and the P900 Rocket Edition proves it. The German tuner has taken the Mercedes-AMG G63, lopped off the rear roof, and grafted on a pickup bed, creating a 900-hp coachbuilt ute that nobody asked for and plenty of G-Wagen diehards will want anyway.
Brabus is building just 10 of them, each starting at roughly $800,000 before tax. The donor G63 already carries cult status in the US thanks to its AMG V8 and boxy military pedigree, so turning it into a 900-hp pickup is the kind of audacity that only makes sense coming from Brabus.
What Brabus Actually Did To The G63’s Body
The P900 keeps the G63’s dual-row cabin but replaces the rear roof with a bed built from a steel floor, a metal tailgate, and carbon-fiber side panels. Soft-teak decking and two lockable, waterproof cargo boxes finish off the load area, alongside red Brabus lettering that leaves no doubt about who got a hold of the sawzall.
Building the bed meant surgery on the ladder-frame chassis. Brabus stretched the wheelbase by 19.7 inches with a custom extension module and moved the rear suspension back to match, making the truck 211.8 inches long, about two feet longer than a stock G63. The rear doors now swing open to 90 degrees for easier access, and second-row passengers get their own gauge cluster showing speed, rpm, outside temperature, G-forces, and the time.
A 4.5-Liter V8 That Makes The Numbers Work
Brabus bored the G63’s twin-turbo 4.0-liter V8 out to 4.5 liters, adding forged pistons, a new billet crankshaft, and larger turbochargers. The result is 888 to 900 hp depending on how you count it, along with 922 lb-ft of peak torque, electronically capped at 774 lb-ft to keep the drivetrain in one piece.
Brabus claims a 3.7-second 0-62 mph run, seven-tenths quicker than the standard G63, and a 149-mph top speed, with power sent through a nine-speed automatic and permanent all-wheel drive. That still trails the Ram 1500 Rumble Bee SRT’s claimed 3.4-second sprint, so the P900 won’t be calling itself the world’s fastest pickup, which was never really the point anyway.
Why This Fits Squarely Into The Brabus Catalog
Brabus has built G-Wagen pickups before, starting with the portal-axle 800 Adventure XLP in 2020, followed by the 900 XLP and the triple-axle XLP 800 6×6 Adventure. Each one leaned into off-road excess with huge ground clearance. The P900 goes the other direction entirely, riding 1.8 inches lower on coilovers with 24-inch Monoblock II EVO wheels wrapped in pavement-focused Hankook rubber.
The Rocket nameplate dates to 2005 and has always marked the top of Brabus’s performance ladder, recently extended to the G-Class with the 900 Rocket Edition SUV and an open-top Rocket Cabrio. A carbon-bodied, road-focused pickup was the logical next absurdity, and with just 10 units planned at roughly $800,000 apiece, Brabus knows exactly who’s buying it.
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