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Kleemann A/S is an after-market tuning company for Mercedes-Benz
Mercedes-Benz

Mercedes-Benz is a German manufacturer of automobiles, buses, coach es, and trucks. It is currently a division of the parent company, Daimler AG , after previously being owned by Daimler-Benz....
 sports cars, sedans, and SUVs
Sport utility vehicle

A sport utility vehicle is a generic marketing description for a vehicle similar to a station wagon but built on a light-truck chassis. Usually equipped with four-wheel drive for on or off-road ability, some SUVs include the towing capacity of a pickup truck with the passenger-carrying space of a minivan....
 headquartered in Farum
Farum municipality

Farum municipality was a municipality in the northeast of the island of Zealand in eastern Denmark. On January 1, 2007 it merged with V?rl?se municipality to form the new Fures? municipality as a consequence of Denmark's Municipalities of Denmark#Municipal Reform 2007....
, Denmark
Denmark

Denmark is a Scandinavian country in northern Europe and the senior member of the Kingdom of Denmark. It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries....
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Kleemann's slogan is "Comfort Power," referring to its low-boost, high-output engines that create substantially more power than standard Mercedes models. Kleemann vehicles also include structural and mechanical integrity improvements often lacking in tuned sports cars. Its corporate logo is an abstract arrow which some corporate representatives refer to as the Kleemann carrot.

Any vehicle on the Mercedes lineup can be tuned in a number of ways from SLK roadsters
Mercedes-Benz SLK-Class

The SLK is a compact roadster manufactured by Mercedes-Benz in two generations, R170 and R171, since 1997.As one of the first modern retractable hardtop convertibles, the SLK followed the 1995 Mitsubishi 3000GT and preceded other retractable hardtops such as the Peugeot 206cc, Lexus SC, Mercedes-Benz SL-Class and the Chrysler Se...
 to G-Class Wagons
Mercedes-Benz G-Class

For G-class stars, see Stellar classification.The Mercedes-Benz G-Class or G-Wagen, short for Gel?ndewagen , is a four-wheel drive vehicle / sport utility vehicle produced by German automaker Mercedes-Benz....
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Kleemann A/S is an after-market tuning company for Mercedes-Benz
Mercedes-Benz

Mercedes-Benz is a German manufacturer of automobiles, buses, coach es, and trucks. It is currently a division of the parent company, Daimler AG , after previously being owned by Daimler-Benz....
 sports cars, sedans, and SUVs
Sport utility vehicle

A sport utility vehicle is a generic marketing description for a vehicle similar to a station wagon but built on a light-truck chassis. Usually equipped with four-wheel drive for on or off-road ability, some SUVs include the towing capacity of a pickup truck with the passenger-carrying space of a minivan....
 headquartered in Farum
Farum municipality

Farum municipality was a municipality in the northeast of the island of Zealand in eastern Denmark. On January 1, 2007 it merged with V?rl?se municipality to form the new Fures? municipality as a consequence of Denmark's Municipalities of Denmark#Municipal Reform 2007....
, Denmark
Denmark

Denmark is a Scandinavian country in northern Europe and the senior member of the Kingdom of Denmark. It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries....
.

Kleemann's slogan is "Comfort Power," referring to its low-boost, high-output engines that create substantially more power than standard Mercedes models. Kleemann vehicles also include structural and mechanical integrity improvements often lacking in tuned sports cars. Its corporate logo is an abstract arrow which some corporate representatives refer to as the Kleemann carrot.

Any vehicle on the Mercedes lineup can be tuned in a number of ways from SLK roadsters
Mercedes-Benz SLK-Class

The SLK is a compact roadster manufactured by Mercedes-Benz in two generations, R170 and R171, since 1997.As one of the first modern retractable hardtop convertibles, the SLK followed the 1995 Mitsubishi 3000GT and preceded other retractable hardtops such as the Peugeot 206cc, Lexus SC, Mercedes-Benz SL-Class and the Chrysler Se...
 to G-Class Wagons
Mercedes-Benz G-Class

For G-class stars, see Stellar classification.The Mercedes-Benz G-Class or G-Wagen, short for Gel?ndewagen , is a four-wheel drive vehicle / sport utility vehicle produced by German automaker Mercedes-Benz....
. Customers can specify custom seats, floormats, and interior fabrics as well as carbon fiber
Carbon fiber

Carbon fiber or is a material consisting of extremely thin fibers about 0.005?0.010 mm in diameter and composed mostly of carbon atoms. The carbon atoms are bonded together in microscopic crystals that are more or less aligned parallel to the long axis of the fiber....
 body kits, carbon front and rear splitters, and carbon interior panelling. Customers can order simple ECU
Engine Control Unit

An engine control unit is an electronic control unit which controls various aspects of an internal combustion engine's operation. The simplest ECUs control only the quantity of fuel injected into each cylinder each engine cycle....
 upgrades that change transmission
Transmission (mechanics)

Using the principle of mechanical advantage, transmissions provide a speed-torque conversion from a higher speed motor to a slower but more forceful output or vice-versa....
 shift times and valve timing
Valve timing

In a piston engine, the valve timing is the precise timing of the opening and closing of the valves.In four-stroke cycle engines and some two-stroke cycle engines, the valve timing is controlled by the camshaft....
, or they can more aggressively have the engine bored and supercharged
Supercharger

A supercharger is an air Gas compressor used for forced induction of an internal combustion engine. The greater mass flow-rate provides more oxygen to support combustion than would be available in a naturally-aspirated engine, which allows more fuel to be provided and more work to be done per cycle, increasing the power output of the engine...
, install camshaft
Camshaft

The camshaft is an apparatus often used in piston engines to operate poppet valves. It consists of a cylindrical rod running the length of the cylinder bank with a number of oblong lobes or cams protruding from it, one for each valve....
s and high-flow headers
Manifold (automotive engineering)

In automotive engineering, an intake manifold or inlet manifold is the part of an engine that supplies the fuel/air mixture to the cylinder s....
. Kleemann also manufactures its own racing wheels, racing LSD
Limited slip differential

A limited slip differential is a modified or derived type of differential gear arrangement that allows for some difference in rotational velocity of the output shafts, but does not allow the difference in speed to increase beyond a preset amount....
s, racing suspension
Suspension (vehicle)

Suspension is the term given to the system of spring , shock absorbers and Linkage that connects a vehicle to its wheels. Suspension systems serve a dual purpose ? contributing to the car's car handling and brake for good active safety and driving pleasure, and keeping vehicle occupants comfortable and reasonably well isolated from road no...
 components, and multi-piston brakes
Disc brake

The disc brake or disk brake is a device for slowing or stopping the rotation of a wheel. A brake disc , usually made of cast iron or ceramic composites , is connected to the wheel and/or the axle....
. Kleemann can even install Lamborghini
Lamborghini

Automobili Lamborghini S.p.A., commonly referred to as Lamborghini, is an Italy manufacturer of sports cars, based in the small Italian village of Sant'Agata Bolognese, near Bologna....
-style vertical doors on their modified vehicles.

Records

In 2002 Danish race driver Jason Watt drove 338 km/h (210 mph) in a 607 hp
Horsepower

Horsepower is the name of several non-International System of Units units of power . It was originally defined to allow the output of steam engines to be measured and compared with the power output of draft horses....
 (446 kW) Kleemann E 55K (W210
Mercedes-Benz W210

The Mercedes-Benz W210 is a mid-size car luxury car?executive car which was produced by the Germany automaker Mercedes-Benz from 1995 through 2002 ....
 model) making it the world's fastest four-door car. Less than a year later a Kleemann tuned ML 55K clocked a remarkable 282 km/h (175 mph) on the Narḍ Ring
Narḍ Ring

The Nard? Ring, is a high speed test track located near the town of Nard?, in the southern Italian region of Apulia, in the province of Lecce....
 in southern Italy
Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
 making it the world's fastest SUV
Sport utility vehicle

A sport utility vehicle is a generic marketing description for a vehicle similar to a station wagon but built on a light-truck chassis. Usually equipped with four-wheel drive for on or off-road ability, some SUVs include the towing capacity of a pickup truck with the passenger-carrying space of a minivan....
. However, both records have since been broken by Brabus
BRABUS

Brabus, founded 1977 in Bottrop , Germany by Klaus Brackmann and Bodo Buschmann, is a high-performance aftermarket Car tuning company which specializes in Mercedes-Benz, Smart and Maybach vehicles....
 in Bottrop
Bottrop

is a city in west central Germany, on the Rhine-Herne Canal, in North Rhine-Westphalia. Located in the Ruhr area, Bottrop adjoins Essen, Germany, Oberhausen, Gladbeck and Dorsten....
, Germany
Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
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Innovations

Kleemann is credited with being the first company to combine a supercharger
Twin-screw type supercharger

The twin-screw type supercharger or twin-screw blower is a positive displacement type device that operates by pulling air through a pair of meshing high-tolerance screws similar to a set of worm gears....
, intake manifold
Manifold (automotive engineering)

In automotive engineering, an intake manifold or inlet manifold is the part of an engine that supplies the fuel/air mixture to the cylinder s....
, and an intercooler
Intercooler

An intercooler, or charge air cooler, is an air-to-air or air-to-liquid heat exchanger used on Turbocharger and Supercharger internal combustion engines to improve their volumetric efficiency by increasing intake air charge density through Isochoric process cooling....
 into one single unit atop the engine block known as the Kleemann Kompressor. This is markedly different from the "Kompressors" or superchargers found on Mercedes-AMG
Mercedes-AMG

Mercedes-AMG GmbH, commonly known as AMG , is the high performance division of the Mercedes-Benz car company. Mercedes-Benz acquired majority interest in AMG in 1999....
 vehicles, although AMG has since begun manufacturing only twin-turbo
Twin-turbo

Twin-turbo refers to a turbocharger internal combustion engine on which two turbochargers compress the intake charge. There are two commonly used twin turbo configurations; parallel twin-turbo, and sequential twin-turbo....
 engines. Kleemann also utilizes twin-screw superchargers
Twin-screw type supercharger

The twin-screw type supercharger or twin-screw blower is a positive displacement type device that operates by pulling air through a pair of meshing high-tolerance screws similar to a set of worm gears....
 instead of roots type supercharger
Roots type supercharger

The Roots type supercharger or Roots blower is a Pump which operates by pulling air through a pair of meshing lobes not unlike a set of stretched Gear....
s of conventionally belt-driven boost systems.

Competing Mercedes-Benz performance specialists


  • Brabus
    BRABUS

    Brabus, founded 1977 in Bottrop , Germany by Klaus Brackmann and Bodo Buschmann, is a high-performance aftermarket Car tuning company which specializes in Mercedes-Benz, Smart and Maybach vehicles....
  • Carlsson
    Carlsson (car company)

    Carlsson is a Germany car Engine tuning manufacturer specialising in Mercedes-Benz cars. The Carlsson tuning house was founded by brothers Rolf and Andreas Hartge in 1989....
  • Renntech
    RENNtech

    Renntech is a Florida company established in 1989 by Hartmut Feyhl. It is best known for performance modifications of Mercedes-AMG automobiles....
  • Mercedes-AMG
    Mercedes-AMG

    Mercedes-AMG GmbH, commonly known as AMG , is the high performance division of the Mercedes-Benz car company. Mercedes-Benz acquired majority interest in AMG in 1999....


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