A partnership between Aston Martin and Mercedes looks likely, with Aston Martin to be taxed with designing and building the next generation Maybach. Actually, whether to keep Maybach on the Daimler life support system is a question that has taxed the brains of many a Mercedes exec, almost since the Maybach brand got its revival […]
Project Kahn’s Wills & Kate Maybach 57
Project Kahn has created a Maybach 57 Special Edition to commemorate the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton, complete with the ‘4 HRH’ number plate. The last time we invited the world to a Royal Wedding involving an heir to the throne, Prince Charles married Lady Diana Spencer. But that was in 1981, when […]
Maybach to end production this year?
Daimler CEO Dieter Zetsche has revealed that the future of Maybach will be decided this year. A closure of Maybach seems the most likely outcome. It’s inevitable that speculation continues about the fate of Maybach – the Mercedes effort to take a piece of arch-rival BMW’s Rolls Royce market – when sales are so abysmal. And continue it does, […]
Maybach Coupe for sale: First Maybach Cruiserio Coupe up for grabs
The first Maybach 57S Coupe – now dubbed the Maybach Cruserio Coupe – has been put up for sale. Which leaves just 99 more Maybach Coupes to shift. We’ve run a couple of stories about a coupe version of the Maybach 57S this year, starting with the rather surprising news that a Maybach Coupe was […]
Maybach 57S Coupe arrives
The production version of the Maybach 57S Coupe – penned by Exelero designer Fredrik Burchhardt and made by Xenatec – has been revealed Regular readers will know that we gave due warning back in March that Maybach was going to be allowed to wither on the vine rather than get new models, apart from a run-out Maybach […]
Maybach Exelero for sale – ish
A Swiss company is offering to build you a replica Maybach Exelero – based on a Dodge Viper – for a very reasonable €550,000. We’re not huge fans of the Maybach here at Cars UK, as you’ll know if you’ve been here before. It’s just so ill-conceived it beggars belief that a company as savvy and successful as […]
Maybach Coupe – we warned you it was coming!
As we reported in March, there is to be a Limited Edition run of 100 Maybach Coupes. Could this be the swansong for Maybach? Mercedes have really tried hard to get the world to love its Playstation on wheels dressed up in its finest woods and leathers and given the moniker of a long dead […]
Maybach to die – swansong Maybach Coupe planned
It’s being reported that Mercedes are going to take the axe to the Maybach – but not before a swansong run of 100 Maybach Coupes. It’s taken a long time for Mercedes to admit defeat, but it looks as if they’re about ready to accept that they got it completely wrong with the Maybach. To […]
Maybach Zeppelin comes over the horizon
Maybach has not exactly been an unmitigated success for Mercedes. Conceived as a competitor for Rolls Royce, it does seem to have carved itself a niche, but probably not the one that Mercedes wanted. Perceived by most as a tarted-up S Class, and bought by the wealthy of the Playstation generation, rather than the Captains […]