While the 2023 Mercedes-AMG S 63 E Performance stretched the performance envelope of the “World’s best car”, a new offering raises its luxury ceiling. For those who think the regular S-Class Maybach is not opulent enough, here is the Mercedes-Maybach S-Class Haute Voiture.
The revived Maybach brand is not new to SUVs. Their Mercedes-Maybach G650 Landaulet was a swan-song to the previous generation of the G-Wagen but was an offering for an extremely small niche. But this time around, the new Mercedes-Maybach GLS 600 SUV is ready to properly lock horns with the top guns in the game, the Bentley Bentayga and the Rolls Royce Cullinan. Unfortunately, in a week which also saw the launch of the Aston Martin DBX and the Tesla Cybertruck, the gussied-up GLS-Class feels utterly forgettable already.
Answering yet another question that nobody asked, the Mercedes-Maybach division — responsible for ordinary building more opulent versions of slightly less-opulent Mercedes models — now has a third model after the S-Class sedan and coupe. The next candidate for the Maybach treatment is the iconic G-Wagen. Mercedes-Maybach has shown off a luxurious Landaulet model christened the G650.
The Monterey Car Week played host to the Mercedes-Maybach Vision 6 concept, a coupe that is just a bit shorter than the Rolls-Royce Phantom II and longer than its cousin, the Mercedes-Maybach S600, both full-size four-door saloons.
Following the release of a new naming nomenclature system by Mercedes-Benz a few weeks back, we got to know that the Maybach series was not yet dead and gone after all. In any case, the German manufacturer has followed up with the world debut of the Maybach S-Class at the prestigious LA Auto Show this week.
Celebrating their 125th anniversary, Maybach exhibits the Edition 125 variant of their 57 and 62 regular and S models at the 2011 Frankfurt International Motor Show.
Xenatec, the German car customiser and armouring outfit that recently set up an facility in the UAE, has unveiled a custom-built coupe version of the Maybach 57S.