Maybach Car back in production
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Kalecrunch
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due to poor sales, the ultra-luxury limousine marque is making a return.
The new ultra-luxury cars will be ultra-long-wheelbase versions of the company’s new flagship S Class model and will take the comfort up to 11. The cars will have larger, rectangular rear doors for effortless ingress and egress, and the rear compartment will contain every creature comfort needed to work or recline in comfort while someone else takes care of the driving.
When Mercedes first revived the Maybach luxury brand, in 2002, it did so with two cars — the long wheelbase Maybach 57 and even longer wheelbase 62, which were meant to be Mercedes’s even more luxurious answers to a resurgent Rolls-Royce.
Based on an older S Class platform, they were devised to offer rear seat passengers an experience equivalent to flying business class — fully reclining leather seats, panoramic glass roof, a wine chiller and slide-out solid wood picnic tables. Also adding to the exclusivity was the price. An entry-level Maybach57 S cost $381,000 and a Maybach 62 $394,000, while limited edition versions commanded price tags of up to $1 million.
Despite finding a cult following within the rap community — Rick Ross loves them so much his record label was named in their honor and Jay Z and Kanye West took power tools to one in an act of extreme customization in the video to the track “Otis” — the marque bombed so badly that Mercedes’s parent company, Daimler, was forced to pull the plug in 2011.
But they didn’t fail because they were too expensive, they failed because they were built on an already out-of-date platform which couldn’t offer any of the advanced driver or passenger features that were on all of Mercedes’s new cars at every price point form city car to executive sedan.
This time around it looks as if it has learned its lesson. The current S Class is the most technologically advanced car currently available and one of the best big cars to drive. Therefore, anything that makes it even more comfortable will make it even more desirable.
Then there is the question of price. According to Autoweek, this time around the cars are expected to cost $250,000-$300,000 before customization or bespoke treatments — in other words roughly the same as a Rolls Royce or Bentley.
The new Maybach is expected to launch some time in 2014 and could make a surprise debut at the upcoming Geneva motor show this March.
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Kalecrunch wrote: »
due to poor sales, the ultra-luxury limousine marque is making a return.
Poor sales usually causes discontinuation.
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Bet Tyga feeling stupid about buying one for 2 mil
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? looks like a fancy Buick. I'll pass.
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Rolls Royce Ghost>>
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meh....
The Super Chief tho>>>>>>
of course if it wasnt just a concept.....and i could afford it lol....thats the tightest ? i've ever seen tho -
meh....
The Super Chief tho>>>>>>
of course if it wasnt just a concept.....and i could afford it lol....thats the tightest ? i've ever seen tho
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hell nah lmao....thats what you keep that old f-1 for
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bruh...i aint puttin nuthin in that bed but some ice chests and luggage
it aint for work....we've established that -
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i've driven plenty trucks and the wife has one.....none as nice as that ? so yeah they were treated like trucks
oh and uh....i live in Shreveport....sumn gotta blow up on the interstate for it to ever be traffic that bad...but i hear you -
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Black_Samson wrote: »i've driven plenty trucks and the wife has one.....none as nice as that ? so yeah they were treated like trucks
oh and uh....i live in Shreveport....sumn gotta blow up on the interstate for it to ever be traffic that bad...but i hear you
? ive driven thru there in the last 3 months ? yalls traffic.
A truvk is a truck and will always get treated as one.
Especially if you let the wife drive it.
lmao....our traffic is full of ? and stuntmen....but its not heavy -
Hard wood floors... be like Naw dust them rocks off the bottom of your feet v10 nice ass truck though
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I'm not an SUV fan
But how many Escalades factory 22's etc do u see doing actual work.
Again I'm not a fan they still ride like trucks and u can't stretch out in em.
I grew up pops had a Vandura, I know they not cool anymore but that was luxury comfortable traveling. Lol -
Black_Samson wrote: »Nah ? all that.
You ever owned a truck even an SUV?
Dawg you always wind up using them ? for they intended purpose.
Sitting in traffic, mad as ? cause it aint going no where, then you look to your right and see an old school ram charger tear ass right across a median and exit, and my ? thats when it hits you.....
"OH ? ? I GOT 4x4!!"
Its an inevitability.
Lmaoooooooooooooooooo Yo im dyin laughing cause this is so true...I see that ? all the time specially in Texas.Let it be a traffic jam a truck will pave its own way from the highway to the service road with no ? given.I never understood why people put rims on a truck,If i bought a truck id do truck ? in a truck.Im riding through and over everything. -