About Maybach

[carman]

Mercedes plans top deliver their first Maybachs to their customers in Fall 2002. 1500 cars a year will be built. Interesting was also the comment that 10 to 15% percent of these Maybach buyers have also ordered an SLR, to be built by McLaren in Woking, England, due for release in 2003. These customers wanted both the best in luxury cars and in sportscars....

[VicenteFox]

wut exactly is a maybach? i've seen those pics in the concept forum... thats about it.

[Porsche]

It's Mercedes new Super Lux Limosine. It's the Pullman Coach of the 21 Century.

[Hudson]

The Maybach is Mercedes-Benz' answer to the Rolls-Royce.

Maybach was a luxury car maker before World War II. During the war, there was a bit of consolidation among the German automakers and the company was absorbed into Daimler-Benz. The 2003 Maybach is the first time that the name has been used since World War II.

As far as I know, Maybach will be a distinct brand apart from Mercedes-Benz.

[gang$tarr]

how would it be a distinct brand apart from mercedes-benz if the freakin mercedes symbol is right on the front of the car?!?!?!?!

haven't you seen any of the pictures?

[Porsche]

I wasn't aware that it was apart from Mercedes. I know that the name Maybach was one of Carl Benz's friends or something, it now makes sense that thier were a pre-war car maker here's the article;

Daimler-Benz To Build the Mercedes-Benz Maybach
Super-Luxury Limousine Will Also Be Sold in The Canadian Market


Toronto (July 28,1998) -- Following a decision by Daimler-Benz AG to develop and produce the Mercedes-Benz Maybach, Mercedes-Benz Canada Inc. has announced that it will offer the super-luxury limousine beginning around 2003. Other major markets will be in Europe and Asia, including Japan. Shown recently at major auto shows around the world in concept car form, the Mercedes-Benz Maybach will be produced at the Daimler-Benz plant in Sindelfingen, near Stuttgart.

Juergen E. Schrempp, Chairman of the Daimler-Benz AG Board of Management, said: “By deciding in favour of building the Mercedes-Benz Maybach, we are once again underlining our claim of representing the absolute “crème-de-la-crème” in all segments. The Mercedes-Benz Maybach will be a masterpiece of automotive technology, setting ultimate standards in luxury features and engineering.”

The Mercedes-Benz Maybach continues the long-standing Daimler-Benz tradition of manufacturing special Mercedes-Benz vehicles for very small market segments. The new car is named after designer Wilhelm Maybach (1846-1929), a long-time colleague of Gottlieb Daimler and one of Germany's most famous automobile designers, who was inducted into the Automotive Hall of Fame last year for his achievements.

Professor Juergen Hubbert, DBAG board member in charge of passenger cars, said, “Like the Maybach cars of the 1930s, and the Mercedes-Benz 600 Pullman of the early 1980s, the Mercedes-Benz Maybach will be individually built for each customer in a very small and very exclusive series.”

Professor Hubbert also emphasized that, as with the classic 600 model, the new Maybach will not affect the premium market position of the S-Class line: “The Mercedes-Benz Maybach will complement rather than compete with our existing model ranges, adding an intriguing vehicle, opening an additional market segment and appealing to a special group of high-end customers.”

[moe182]

That car is going to have one crazy engine...something like a twin turbo V12 with about 550bhp if im not mistaken.....they scraped the whole W-16 idea....

[Hudson]

I don't believe DaimlerChrysler (or Daimler-Benz, for that matter) was ever toying with a W16 engine. I have heard V12 from the beginning, though. And the stories get more and more grand each time it's told. I do believe you're right about the twin-turbo setup.

[gang$tarr]

i think those front lights are kinda ugly..... well they kinda made them look better on the newer one

[Hudson]

Thought you might like to catch a glimpse of the new Maybach...as well as an old one. This is an official DaimlerChrysler picture of the 2003 Maybach. As stated earlier, Maybach will become its own brand positioned above Mercedes-Benz.

[gang$tarr]

they changed the lights again? the front kinda looks like a beefed up toyota avalon now

[moe182]

I think it sorta looks like the Infiniti line.......well basically just the grill.

[Hudson]

I like it...much better than the original concept.

But I think it looks a bit Korean. Take a look at the upper line Daewoos and Hyundais...the ones not sold here.

[Porsche]

Ahhh! it does look like a beefed up Avalon, betcha the old one is still worth 10 Times the amount as the new one.

[gang$tarr]

i think that the older one looked uglier but it looked more out of reach and expensive... the new one doesn't look as exclusive

why do they call it a limo? aren't all the people that are buyin it going to be driving it?