Maybach Cruiserio Coupe - up For Sale
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 coming – especially as it wasn’t going to be the spectacular Exelero Coupe – and culminating in the confirmation that German company Xenatec were building 100 Maybach Coupes.
What I don’t think we knew at the time was that the whole Maybach Coupe plan was being funded by Saudi-based Auto Kingdom, which probably explains quite a lot. The Maybach has not been an explosive success since it launched – it’s been completely eclipsed by the far superior Rolls Royce Phantom – but its best market has probably been the Middle East, so Auto kingdom are probably pretty scure in the knowledge they can shift one or two of the Maybach Coupes on their home turf.
That said, the very first Maybach Coupe – which it appears is now called the Maybach Cruiserio Coupe – has turned up for sale on James List at a little above what we were led to believe would be the list price of €675,000. This ‘First of 100’ Maybach Cruserio Coupe is listed for sale at €715,000, €40k more than we thought was list price.
Auto Kingdom – who have invested €70 million in the Cruserio project – say that they already have enough orders to account for the first year’s production (the plan is a three year production cycle on the Cruserio Coupe) and are planning three further projects.
Can’t wait.
Source: James List
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