Brabus

Brabus is a German high-performance tuning and manufacturing company founded in 1977 in Bottrop, in the Ruhr region of Germany. The name is drawn from the opening letters of the two founders' surnames: Brackmann and Buschmann. The automotive business, built on bespoke Mercedes-Benz, Maybach, and Smart modifications, underpins everything Brabus brings to the water. Brabus Marine is the result of a collaboration launched in 2019 with Finnish builder Axopar Boats, and the pairing is direct: Axopar supplies the hull engineering; Brabus layers on the performance calibration, in-house carbon fibre parts manufactured at the Bottrop headquarters, fine leather interiors, and the signature dark-on-dark exterior graphics.

The Shadow range spans four size bands from 25 to 45 feet. The Shadow 300 covers the compact tender role at roughly 7.6m. The Shadow 500 and Shadow 900 - at approximately 9m and 11.7m respectively - sit at the centre of the superyacht chase-boat market; the 900 runs twin 450R Mercury Verado V8 FourStrokes producing 900 hp combined, with a quoted top speed of 55 knots and typical cruising around 40 knots. The current flagship, the Shadow 1200, stretches to 45 feet and draws 1,200 hp from triple Mercury Racing V10 outboards, reaching the same 55-knot ceiling in a larger, cabin-equipped platform. All models are hand-built with in-house carbon detailing. We'd put the Shadow 900 and 1000 series alongside the strongest outboard-powered options in the chase segment; the 1200 addresses owners who want a standalone cruising capability alongside the speed.