A beautiful machine, man. Literally an engine with wheels :-) I love the old school powerhouses.

Imagine that starting sound every moring... Love it!

Wow! Everything about this screams "old school", from the wood frame, to the leaf spring suspension and, best of all, chain final drive!

Fantastic car! A real acheivement in engineering!

"Da wussten wix dass er so viel Hubraum hat, auch dass er so viel leistung hat " :-D Liebe diese "Entschuldigung" ;)

This, ladies and gentlemen, is a hot rod :-)

Ich liebe solche Fahrzeuge! Eine zwar einfache Karosserie und denn darin einen gigantischen Motor! Ich würde gern auch so ein Projekt starten lol.

Love the sound when it starts! Germans don't need helmets, they've got balls!

and that chain drive sounds awsome!!!

Holy fuck, that thing is badass! I would love to drive that thing!

It's so old it's even chain-driven instead of with a normal driveshaft lay-out! : )

Woo!!! Go BMW, Konig der Motoren.

Nur zur Info es ist keine Rennwagenkarosse sondern ein altes Feuerwehrauto aus dem jahr 1908 soviel ich weiß.

A traditional chain-drive race car with an engine larger than what was ever used in such a vehicle. Yeah, it's a true monster.

"forget full trottle!"

I would love to see a modern-day Brutus

we have sadly lost the engineers of the 30`s 40`s with vision and desire to create more power and compete with the world well done lads keep the old beast breathing

the exposed valvetrain on that car is a work of art. though the car itself is a little subtle for my taste... lol

aaahyy missed that song!! :) nice pics

The Veyron is a spectacular piece of modern engineering. Brutus is a one off by a rich guy who wanted an aircraft engine in his wheels! The faults don't reside in the engine, but in the application. That mighty old lion was designed to turn a propellor by direct drive, not have its gigantic forces put through a clutch & skinny tyred 2 wheel drive! lol

wow! but that's death on wheels! cotter link chain drive! it's one thing to want a classic styled racer, but that's truly a ticking time bomb! what a rush!

Holy shit! This is awesome :)

wunderbar! what beast ....

That is absoloutely heroic! Anyone who naffly refers to there own car as 'the beast' should see this and hang there head in shame!

Someone once said: "there's no replacement for displacement"

Actually, you just defined the american defense contractor way. As automotive design goes, Brutus is a sledgehammer.

beautiful BMW engine

i have bin in this car. for a vieuw years on row we visit the sinsheim museum on inviting from herman layer. the museum director, and i tell you.. brutus is really a beast and in stands in the museum when there is a engineer you could ask a employee of the museum to start the engine. yes they start the engine in the museum!!!! just a little bit more background information, this is a present from the engineers and friends for herman when he got 50 years old!

The frame is from a 1906 NYC fire engine and it has no breaks.

lol, starts like a star wars episode 1 pod racer xD

Wow that's quite a car. Driving it must be like strapping yourself to a rocket!

Jesus that's awesome, it's like a freakin' freight train

Germans always make the best stuff.

am diggin those tires!

Fred Flintstone should pilot this thing. A true example of 500+brontopower. What I wouldn't give to drive it!

lovely crazy car!

Looks like a monster from a scary movie!!!

Somebody needs to put this engine in a modern frame, with radial tires, disc brakes, and suspension. Something like a 3/4 ton truck frame with modified suspension would be great. I want to see this thing use some of its power!

I like how practical it is .. .

Wahnsinn!

Shit that looks dangerous. I like the stuka dive bomber sounding starter.

nice, i got a pair of those goggles. all i need now is the car to match lol

3:44 THIS IS SPARTA!!!!

now thats an engine WOOOOOOOOOOOOO

I'd love to have one to go shopping :D

Reine Kunst danke !

I guess he would give the same answer as people who are asked why they climb Everest; 'Because it's there!'. lol

big engine you got there and big steering wheel too

It's actually quite impressive that the fuel consumption is "just" 1 litre per a kilometre or 2.4 miles per gallon.

what a beast!

Its a cool museum if you can get there to see it.

Ah KoRn...love it

Damn.... It's all motor and hood.

this thing could have 1 horsepower and still out shine most modern day cars, the torque out of it must be tremendous, it's amazing the gearbox and shafts (and pathetic chain :p ) can take it. fine piece of engineering though

The germans were smart, they used the car races to develop sick engines, which they then put in their fighter aircraft, for example the me109.

GODDAMN!, 700+ horses at 1700RPM!!!

Germany's version of Jay Leno's Tank Car!

@purpleGoAhead Good explanation. Here in the UK, we have a steam traction engine called Boadicea. She is rated @ 10 nominal horsepower, an arbitrary comparison to actual draught horses. Working compound, her 2 cylinders generate 4335 ft/lbs of torque. ( 165 bhp @ 200 rpm) Working simple, with full boiler pressure fed to the 12 inch bore low pressure cylinder as well, she makes 11877 ft/lbs!! ( 452 bhp @ 200 rpm!!) Although the boiler can only sustain that for a short time.

holly crap!a coffin with weels!

This car is a ghost from the past. A past when men were men & had balls of steel. You would just love to get a tanker of Avgas and go playing on the nearest Autobahn at 2am.

Crazy car :D

amazing power machine uszlachetniacze - testy i opinie

SKRRREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE KA-WHOOOOM

bboooooorr eh das is ma nin wahrer porsche killer aber nich nur das der killt alles man man man und dieser ech hammer mäßige sound boor da weis man einfach nicht was man sagen soll is atemberaubend war bei einem großen sternmotor dabei der hier auchtzsehen ist gebt ma sterntag ein

Insane car

WTCHME, See if this might impress you. The Veyron has 4 turbochargers to produce its 981 bhp (1001 ps) @ 6000 rpm, & 922 lbs/ft of torque. This monster is naturally aspirated to make 750 bhp @ 1700 rpm, & 2319 lbs/ft of torque. 2.5 times that of the Veyron. The Veyron has to rev 3.5 times faster to add its 231 bhp advantage, but we must expect some technical progress in the 80 years that separate them!

That may be the case with the horsepower but i'm pretty sure that makes a whole lot of torque...

omfg listen to it 3:13 talk about awakening the monster inside im in love

They need to move to some kind of Saltlake with Miles of free space to really fire that monster off his limits!

looks like a fast tractor

okay not bad, nice sound...xD

Handles about as good as my house.

I like the starter sound... the rest of the Brutus seems to be kinda wortless

damm very cool good job

wat een geil ding, ik haar ook geern so een motor in mien clio xD

Somebody SOmeone! nice one on the msic choice wasnt epecting that lol

Robi wrażenie , nie jakieś Das Auto :)

Yes, "only" 750 PS, but because it makes that power at such a low speed, the torque should be somewhere in the neighborhood of 2000-2500 Ft-lbs. That means the BMEP isn't too great for today's standards, but it was great for back then, about 150 BMEP.

this is not a car,it is an artefact from hell

Dig the chain drive !

well said, AMEN!!!

Brutus Rocks, similar to Babs. Liberty Engined monster that killed Parry Thomas, buried in Pendine Sands for many years

very nice

how fast would it go if it could actually handle high speeds?

now, when i start this infernal motorautomobile, it should be as quiet as a mou..OH JESUS CHRIST!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I would learn to cuss in German just to drive this BMW

@wfw5607 yea but look at the tires. not much traction to break lol

this should give m division some inspiration. :))

Yeah!!

Impressive machine.. is this a real museum peice or a new scratch built car?? If it is new, they should use a better drivetrain setup... those chain drives are not so great. Mabye use the drivline from a big truck.. that would handle the torque... very cool machine though... I would like to just be near it to hear it run!!!

Sounds like a Spitfire starting up. Massive aircraft engine, chain-drive, puny brakes, skinny tires. What could possibly go wrong?

pure devil in world of cars

Was this behemoth water cooled?

how fast does it go then as I am thinking I can take that on my 90cc vespa

750HP @ 1700rpm in a car made in 1930's. Crazy stuff.

Sorry, I made one error, at 1700 the Veyron produces 40% of the power of Brutus, not less than 1/3rd. I saw 200 instead of 298. Duh! lol

@ produKtNZ, the commentator says "The tank is nearly full but he needs more than 1 litre per 1km! "...thats so many like the Bugatti Veyron needs at Topspeed, 407 km/h thats a monster of an engine, old good technic und nice sound, thank you BMW

What they failed to mention was the fact that everytime this guy drives the thing, He's wasted on acid

omfg!! the german monster car

@purpleGoAhead Since you quoted in Nm's, the 2 figures are 5873 Nm & 16092 Nm respectively. The simple working figure is 5.12 times the torque of this 47 litre aircraft engine! & from 2 cylinders of 7 1/4 & 12 inch bore!! Many people misunderstand the nature of torque, which is the real strength of an engine. Power is just work rate in a specific time period, & as you say, is more rpm related.