Jay Z, Kanye, meet your new Otis.
Mercedes-Benz unveiled the first vehicle from the Mercedes-Maybach lineup, dubbed the S600. The ultra-exclusive, ultra-premium sedan receives power from a twin-turbo 6-liter V12, punching 523 horsepower and 612 lb-ft of torque to the back as it speeds the S600 from nil to 62 mph in five seconds, topping out at 155 mph.
Performance aside, the sedan offers CEOs and dictators alike more rear headroom and 6.3 inches of legroom due to its lengthened wheelbase. The power barons of the world can also enjoy an onboard bar with a pair of silver champagne flutes, reclining seats with calf supports, fold-out tables with leather inserts et al.
The first U.S.-bound Mercedes-Maybachs are expected in showrooms by April 2015 at the earliest.
A car fit for a Kardashian
The question Mr. and Mrs. West is, if you draped Kim across a Maybach, could you “BREAK THE INTERNET”?
I don’t know about the internet, but the Maybach would never be the same
That might break my eyesight.
*dials number*
B***h you not a hobbit, right?
The chrome B-pillar and window surround gives away that this is *not* intended as an executive’s or dignitary’s ride. There’s some real confidence, though, in trying to translate a look you’d find on a well-used 2007 300C to a $200K car.
MB knows their market
They USED TO know their market. In one of his routines, the comic Allan Sherman opined, “…a camel is a horse that was designed by a committee”. MB already built one of the top three best luxury sedans in the S-Class series. This Maybach version is their camel. First there is their wrong-headed confession that a buyer can’t do better than the S-Class, by bring out this model. Then, there is one of the rare criticisms of the first Datsun 240Z about the cheap-looking quilted vinyl interior lining, and that was only a $3600 car. What next for MB interiors, laced doily inserts? This model is a classic instance of not knowing when to stop when you’ve already reached the top. I can imagine the new ad campaign-“When You’ve Reached the Corner Office and Dementia Has Set In-The New S600 Maybach”.
I’m sorry, I forgot the “/sarcasm”
Just… why?
What livery company (because lets be honest, you are not selling these to people who drive themselves) looks at this, a Flying Spur, and a Ghost and says “Yeah, I’ll take the one that looks like an S-Klasse.”
MB keeps trying to get out of the very comfortable corner they’ve painted themselves into, what with having the nicest, best executive sedan out there ALREADY.
Because MB looks at Rolls Royce and Bentley and wants a piece of that. They compete at just about every level except the very bottom and the very top. Where else can they go to expand their market share?
I bet plenty of people will drive themselves in these cars.
Just stagger the model introduction years. The target market will buy the Roller when that is revised and on the Robb Report front page, the Bent’ next year, then the Benzor…… Then perhaps that Panamera Thingy…. Then back to Rolls….. That’s the economy stimulation Yellen is robbing the rest of the country for you to engage in, after all…
“But everybody’s like Cristal, Maybach
Diamonds on your timepiece
We don’t care,
We’re not caught up in your love affair.”
Guess MB realized the name had some serious street cred to save.
/sarcasm
Don’t forget they were also “driving Cadillacs in our dreams” so, there’s that
And thus sprang forth the ELR
Not sure that was the Cadillac they had in mind when writing the song
Ay, there’s the rub…
Everybody hasn’t “been like Maybach” since about 2005. I think an older person wrote that song.
With the debut of the Maybach S600 I wonder if quilted seat and console coverings will become the next thing in car interior design. I think having a large center console in the back seat of an ultra luxury car is stupid. It takes up vast amounts of space and just makes the seating look cramped.
The center console in the rear are in cars that will never see the need for squeezing in a third passenger. If I were a rich bigwig, I would hate to only have a flip down armrest with nothing more than cupholders in my 200k car.
Like the ’04-08 (maybe only’06) Maximas! http://s417.photobucket.com/user/j23a45m9/media/080822_112531.jpg.html
I just wish I had that orange leather. Sigh.
That orange leather has NOT aged well, as it was also available on the 06-07 M’s if you got the bronze exterior.
https://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2014/01/2014-naias-the-next-interior-design-fads-quilted-leather-textured-woodgrain/
I personally think that quilted leather looks silly. A design fad that will look horrible and probably ridiculed years from now. I have visions of fake wood paneling for some reason.
I agree. It’s too easy/cheap to simulate or even duplicate. I predict that you’ll start to see “universal fit” car seat covers with the quilted leather look. The Chrysler 300 has this “feature” as an option. The Kia Provo concept had it. When Kia is going to offer a feature that MB offers. The exclusivity is gone. There will probably be a huge quality difference but I’m not sure that will matter. As such I predict this trend will go the way of Altezza tail lights.
https://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2013/02/altezza-lights-a-retrospective/ (which were also easy/cheap to mimic)
If you didn’t write that that is a Mercedes, I would have totally thought it was the new Hyundai. Ah design malaise.
Just to fair to everyone that got on me for the ATS engine mess…
This engine output is rediculous for this car.
The Z06 vette is a Supercharged 6.2L V8 with 650 HP and 650 torque.
This is Twin turbo 6.0 V12 with 523HP and 612 torque, what the heck is the point in the extra 4 cyclinders? Isn’t detonation easier to control on smaller displacements? Shouldn’t that HP number be at least 200 more?
B/C maybach?
It’s actually rated at 5 sec 0-60. Impressive for a car that probably weighs as much as a tank and corners like one.
All yours for the low $200k’s.
I wonder what the gearing is.
How do we know it corners (poorly)?
And better yet, why is that relevant on a 200k luxury car, that’s like saying a fiesta is a poor vehicle because it can’t tow 10k.
Just saying.
This engine has been out since 2003. Those were big numbers back then. While it is probably time for an updated engine, I think Daimler is avoiding developing a new V12. There’s talk that this might be the last one. It’s not just about the numbers though, but the way it delivers them. When you punch the throttle, acceleration feels way slower than it actually is. The few times I’ve had the opportunity, my first reaction was “this doesn’t feel that fast” and I look down at the speedometer in the triple digits.
It’s too bad they decided to differentiate the line with that vertical chrome one splitting the grill. Adding a Hyundai design element seems a very bad choice to me for a car like this.
Who knew that a ’59 Caddy painted pink could look more classy than this Baron von Schnitzenberg baroque barge?
Yes indeed, when given the unbridled opportunity to exhibit visible wretched excess, the Germans will not surrender first place to mere Americans.
Dieter Zetsche’s walrus handlebar mustache must be positively vibrating with glee! First ze 2004 Chrysler 300, und now! Maybach!
Mercedes stretched version of the S series,wants its passengers to feel they never left the business jet, with its reclining back seats.They must have dropped the old Maybach hood ornament,according to this picture.The last Maybach was flop with handful of sales.
I rather have a 1958 Cadillac Series 70 Eldorado Brougham than this POS.
Well, duh!
This one IS coming with length.
Meanwhile, some aftermarket wheel manufacturer is scrambling to design new, revolting wheels (taking Jose Canseco’s 1911 as inspiration) for this thing. Mercedes might be flush now, but they are doing a lot of things that I firmly believe will catch up to them. One the one hand, moving downmarket in terms of price and quality with the C-Class, while turning their flagships into pimptastic jokes that their traditional base wouldn’t be caught dead in. Of course, I could be wrong, there might be enough Kardashians (the one thing they do well is breed), rappers, professional athletes, and Russian mafia wives to constitute a market for this.
It’s so incredibly gauche, but with that legroom the Chinese will love it.
But at this price range I’m going Rolls or Bentley so I don’t look like some tacky immigrant. That b-pillar is gross.