Brabus Shadow 900 review | Sun-Top and Cross-Cabin versions go head-to-head | Motor Boat & Yachting
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ก.พ. 2025
- What’s better than testing one 900hp Brabus Shadow 900? Testing two, of course! Jack and Hugo take the Cross-Cabin and Sun-Top for a spin in Poole to see which is best...
Brabus Shadow 900 specification
LOA: 38ft 5in (11.7m)
Beam: 11ft 0in (3.35m)
Draught: 2ft 9in (0.85m)
Displacement: 4.93 tonnes
Fuel capacity: 730 litres
Water capacity: 100 litres
Test engines: Twin Mercury Racing 450hp outboard
Top speed: 59 knots
Cruising speed: 20 knots
Fuel consumption: 84lph
Cruising range: 138nm
RCD category: B for 10 people
Design: Axopar/Brabus Marine
Starting price: £462,937 (inc. VAT
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Price as tested: £583,417 (inc. VAT)
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cross cabin for sure. weather is never perfect. if it's too hot, gets hot, gets cold, gets rainy or just changes, you'll love that you have that cabin.
What’s the point? Might as well go for a drive in your car with the windows down 🤦♂️
It's a no Brainer.. Fullly loaded With /H/Ac. Might want to spend the weekend on it..
@@casevans7431have you ever spent time on the water, 100 degree weather gets old very quick. Ac is a lifesaver
"i want to enjoy the British summer"......while wearing a T-shirt and 2 fleeces!!!!
Yeah but that's the British summer anyway...
I hope he didn't forget the suncream
Yeah.... as an Aussie I can confidently state "You don't live in the UK for the weather".....
@@Aspen51 Unless you like cold and humid-ass weather...
legit stopped the video once the clown said that and proceeded to the comment section
I'm with Jack on this, Cross Cabin all the way!
2 outstanding boats! 1 outstanding comment regarding Hugo's hair!
I'd go with enclosed, but with the opens paint! Well done!
Cross cabin all day long. I’d be quite happy with it as my summer retreat.
I love that the steering wheel rotates while the center is fixed, would like to see that on well everything.
Good arguments for both versions, but it would be the cross cabin for me. If you're spending that much money, I'd want year round boating
Wrapped up like it's winter and enjoying one of 10 nice summer days a year in the UK. Bahamas yes, UK no.
You know it’s a serious machine when there are half a dozen “warning” stickers next to the helm 🤣
I live in Miami and i'd still take the cross cabin to head over to the Bahamas and all the other nearby islands, never know when you will get some bad weather, great vlog guys and plz keep up the good work, come oooooooooon Lotto!! 👍👏🏽🇺🇸🙏🏽
Great review chaps. I'd go for the xc. Fantastic boats they both are.
Hugo, Jack has had your pants down! [again]
Great review, love the format.
The XC Shadow is the one. What a boat and so unique. Great review of boat amazing machines. 😎✌🏻
Chuckling away at this as they talk about ‘having fun in the British summer’ while looking like they are about to climb Everest. My god I’m happy I left that country.
I hope to leave here soon myself
I love the color scheme on the sun top, but the closed one is the one to go for.
Nice job Hugo and Jack. A great boat for a superyacht tender (yes.. cabin version please, nice try at the sell Hugo but I think you got the short straw!)...or perhaps a day reef/paragliding/thrill ride etc charter boat, but not suited for much else I think.. Having said that it is great that there is so much on offer these days that you can match your needs/budget to many available options.
Absolutely agree with Hugo. Open version anyday …. 😎
Living in the UK I would prefer the brabus 900 Cross cabin to the sun top as I believe that the covered version of this vessel would be used more in our unpredictable weather!
I live on the west coast of Norway, so the Cross-cabin for sure :-)
The Cross cabin is the way to go! What a fabulous boat.
It's a great design.Luvs the Blck & Red colour.
Love the cross cabin setup. Thanks for sharing
Decision is obvious - I need both ! Stunning craft.
Nice to see the sensible one wearing a life jacket, meaning Jack’s must be the better boat!
When I get to the Needles it is usually left hand down and Omonville, 60 nautical miles and 12 hours, for a nice dinner and an overnight. With one of those I could do lunch and be back in Blighty in time for the six o'clock news. I hate to think of the fuel burn though? Good fun and good video.
Just saw one here in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Absolutely stunning!
Cool dueling concept in this video, thank you!
The cabin for sure, I live in the Annapolis Maryland area, the cabin is a must.
Living on the Swedish west coast, so obviously the cabin version is the sensible choice. So give me the sun top version now! 😄
Cross Cabin of course....365 cruising....rain or shine....and more family/cruising oriented.
Yeah both for me 👍😁.
Brilliant vid guys, really enjoyable to watch ❤️🇬🇧🙂
fuck it, I cant decide. I am buying them both
I've been looking at these boats for 3 years now and I still say I need one of each lol suntop for the lake house where it's almost always sunny and nice out and cross cabin for the big lake at home where its always cold and windy!
5:22 - "How invogorating it is to have the wind to going through what's left of his hair" ... haha *burn* 😂😂😂
I live in Fl, just ordered a Sun Top
*XC round the year and a Nimbus T 11 for the 3-4 hot summer month here in Spain!*
Great video! Jack - you’re getting really good at these videos! Half a mill is silly money for these boats - but if you have the money! For UK the X cabin version is much much better….imho…..I wonder if you can hang a couple of 300hp Cox diesel outboards on the back - that would be interesting!
Thanks for the kind words. As it happens, I recently tested a standard Axopar 37 with a pair of COX CXO300s and the video will be going live at the end of this month.
@@jackhaines123 - that sounds fantastic!
Do they have summer in England?
I'll take a 37XC non-Brabus version with twin 350 Verados instead and save ££££££. If you want 60+ knots then use your savings on a little Ring 21 or similar with a 250 on the back and properly brown your pants.
All about location. In the med, the ST for sure. In Northern Europe, the XC.
Correct answer.
This is super beautiful,stylish,elegant,durable & superfast😍🤗❤
Being in the middle of the Great Lakes in Michigan, I would love to have the cross cabin!
I am gunning for that cross cabin. It WILL be mine
Cross-cabin is the no brainer. Either is a win.
Can’t decide so i will have to have both.
Cross-Cabin is the one!!!! Love it!
Well for me the CROSS CABIN WIN!!!! been on the ocean when weather want to act out
Cross cabin for sure. Only hard decision is getting a wet bar and grille or not
I'd choose the cross cabin no doubt. It's more detailed than the sun top is.
have to go with the cross cabin for sure.
Cross cabin 100%..........lovely all wheather boot. In Axopar trim resonable affortable....but I do like the black hull
I'd own the Cross-Cabin for all year round boating and hire a Sun Top for occasional BBQ's with family and friends.
Awesome review. I'll take them both!😁
Suntop for me :D
For me living in Norway there is no question it has to be the cross cabin. However for that money with 2 cabins then cooking possibilities should be standard,
Cross cabin for me 100%
Personally for 500k I wouldn’t have either
Fair point. Paying for the Brabus tho.
you could get the standard AxoPar for much less
@@obrien8228 appreciate that but wouldn’t an Axopar either
@@alangebbie8848 Axopar is a great boat for those whose needs it fits. It doesnt fit your needs, not the fault of the boat itself. I wouldnt get one for family commuting, fishing or party boat, sure. But for all weather fast safe commuting (almost year around useability for the XC), thats still plenty of fun its almost unbeatable. Its more of a passionists boat than some sunday cruiser who drives his boat 4 times a summer, weather permitting.
I'd go for a Fairline F33 for that money if I wanted that kind of fast weekender.
These do go faster, F33s are nicer.
The X cabin is the one for the U.K.
I think it’s up to personal preference. Most owners will only go out when it’s good weather, so either would work
@@napalmhotdog4365 They did ask for a choice!!! If I had a boat of the type I would be out whatever the weather especially if the boat was in the U.K. no sitting on the fence you have to choose.
Is it normal to wear pants t-shirt sweater and jacket during the English summer? The cross cabin all the way
Yu kno wat! I'm taking both😅😎
smaet way to do a review vid. very entertaining.
Cross cabin all the way! ❤
Wait the steering wheel isn’t in front of the drivers seat????
This was wonderful Thanks
I hope to se a video of the new 45ft xc ,
First i buy the Cross Cabin on month later the Sun Top 🥰
Very nice. 👍🏼
I prefer the cross cabin with the separate head. Rear bar set up with the 3 facing seats.
Definitely the cross cabin, whether it's the Brabus or the Axopar.
For me it’s the cross cabin absolutely no question
Great boats ! But unable to find the price
Wondering if am not going to buy both versions depending on weather :))
4:15 Sixty knots and the man in the back looks bored witless…
It’s a monumentally expensive way to go fast with a rather gauche red interior. Supplanted with a suitably brash Overfinch Range Rover waiting on the dockside. The canny purchaser will go for the non Brabus version and spec the closed off heads.
Just an observation - why isn’t Hugo wearing a life jacket on this occasion?
>why isn’t Hugo wearing a life jacket on this occasion?
Because he isn't a vegan Marxist.
@@darthkek1953 fantastic comment!
When you’re in the water quietly drowning and I’ve mosied up along side you in the correct drift down recovery position… then I’ll ask what you want as your last meal, veggie burger (Linda MCartney) or raw (that’s beef carpaccio to you sir) beef in your burger. Make sure you give the right answer as I’m told drowning takes far too long to be any fun
@@PhilbyFavourites the thing about knowing you're in a dangerous situation is you are more wary. So in a year (outwith Covid) a couple of dozen people go overboard every year on bog-standard "safe" cruise ships. Should everyone on a cruise ship wear a life jacket all the time? It's cold in the water, why not a wetsuit too? And a helmet, you can knock your napper going overboard.
Or you can eat a t-bone and wear flip-flops like a manly man.
@@darthkek1953 AKA Crocodile Dundee….
@@PhilbyFavourites _that's_ not a sports boat... THAT'S a sports boat!
I wonder what these both would be like with twin the new Mercury V-12 600HP Verados? If you want speed, you can't get much better than that
Definitely cross cabin. No doubts, but I'd specify a couple of extras in the build. I'd lift the headroom in the aft cabin and for me, a well designed galley is a must have. I believe there's a 45 footer coming this year. Perhaps that would be worth waiting for. But, I do like the 37 foot boat very much
I think if you asked brabus to lift the headroom in the aft cabin they would laugh loudly at you
@@casevans7431 : laughing loudly is an outstanding way to lose not only business, but goodwill too.
I've been in business for many years, I'm very aware of the value of every bit of goodwill. I've also owned many boats, most with some of my own specs built-in. No-one has ever laughed.
As "the same hull", is there anything stopping you putting twin 450s on a 37, and avoiding paying inflated prices for 'exclusivity', carbon fibre, and brabus branding? Do they modify the hull/mountings etc for the extra 100hp rating between this and the standard axopar?
I think I read that they reinforce the transom for the Brabus hulls, although that is the only functional difference I'm aware of.
Cross cabin everyday for the UK
suntop 37! sadly 95% of sales here are cabin, so finding a lightly used 37 suntop is hard.
I'm just about to list a 2017 37 Suntop w/350s and aft cabin based on the Hamble. Drop me an email and I will forward you the details. tom.bentley@axoparlondongroup.com
What's the deal with the stern lounger - looks like its a feeder for the meat grinders.
For $600,000 USD its up there, boat the boat is nice in stealth:) There will be no other Brabus anywhere in the same country at that price either !
WOW...i LOVE THEM.
I'd buy something else entirely, but cabin version for sure, we live in the north
Cross cabin 👍
Cross cabin for sure mate
What’s the difference between Ex fat and in fat?
I would love to scare some smugglers with this bad boy, its got that tactical look, love this boat, a matching amg 6x6 truck from brabus would top this off like wine & good cheese😎
Cabin for sure
Wow...such an awesome boat...especially the sun top...but 4+ liters per mile at 30kts😢😢😢
Supercharger is thirsty.
@@triedproven9908 You think Yamaha 425 would be better?
The toilet arrangements of the 37 really bother me. Even more so when spending £500 +.
£500 + is a lot of money.
How would you like them to be? Just out of curiosity because these boats dont have all that much room
@@relaxation2380 Just asking for a seperate toilet on a near 40 foot boat . Their rivals seem to do it just fine.
You are selling the hell out of Brabus Shadows.
Cross Cabin - If I had the money I would be on it in all weathers
Cross cabin for sure
Not only does this show which boat is better it also shows who is the vastly better presenter.
Needs a sports mode on the motors exhaust.
i like BRABUS SHADOW 900 BLCK OPS Cross-Cabin best 👌
Cross cabin what a boat 👍
How about an Axopar 37 with 2 Verado 450? Way cheaper and faster
Better still Axo 37 with 1, 2 or even 3 Suzuki 350
BRABUS: I can go 67mph
FOUTAIN: Hold my jockstrap
Bonkers video and cross cabin for a win...
It's the cross cabim for me. I think it's more multipurpose.
Nice toy, but not for me. Too dark of an interior and limited space compared to a lot of others, ie, Antares 11. Great looking boat, love the black, but not too practical. Good video!