Future models - Mercedes-Maybach - Vision 6Mega coupe teased by Mercedes-MaybachMercedes stretches its vision of a modern 1930s-style Maybach super-luxury coupe11 Aug 2016 NOW, that’s a Maybach. After crafting a couple of finely honed but terminally conservative limousines under its rejuvenated Maybach super-luxury line, Mercedes-Maybach has built this jaw-dropping chop-top coupe concept that appears to cover about two postcodes. Appropriately, the S-Class-based two-door grand tourer – a nod to Maybach’s tear-drop-shaped Stromlinie streamliner coupe of the 1930s – is expected to be revealed in the flesh on August 19 in California at this year’s Pebble Beach Concours d’ Elegance with its ready-made audience of car-mad billionaires and millionaires. Half of Hollywood can be expected to beat a path to Mercedes’ door to demand the German company bring this rolling status symbol – a sort-of latter-day Mercedes SSK – to production. All it is missing is a set of big chrome exhaust pipes hanging out of the side of that long, long bonnet. Mercedes revealed this teaser image on its social media overnight with a single line of text: “Hot and cool – almost six metres of ultimate luxury.” Potentially, that makes the two-door coupe even longer than the four-door Mercedes-Maybach S-Class limo that stretches to 5453mm. Like that sedan, the coupe has a Mercedes three-pointed star on the front and a Maybach badge on the rear pillar – the only evidence that it comes under the Maybach banner. So far, the powers that be in Stuttgart are tight-lipped on the potential for a production version, although we hear the pressure to give it the green light is already on within the company. And once the well-heeled chaps at Pebble Beach start flashing their bank accounts, it could be a fait accompli. When Mercedes relaunched the Maybach brand in 2014, it intimated that a coupe, convertible and three-row Pullman might be on the cards. It would not be the first coupe to wear the Maybach moniker. Founded in 1909 as a subsidiary of the famous German Zeppelin blimp company, Maybach built coupes cabrios along with its high-end luxury sedans when it was at its zenith in the 1930s. The most famous was the 1939 streamlined sports coupe that, like modern Maybachs, was based on a conventional but fast luxury car, the SW 38. In 2004, Maybach crafted the one-off Exelero sports coupe based on the Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren for German tyre company Fulda. While the Exelero never made it into production, it allegedly was sold to rapper Birdman for $US8 million ($A10.3m). Read moreAll future modelsAlfa Romeo Abarth Alpine Alpina Audi Aston Martin BMW Bentley Chery Brabham Chrysler Chevrolet Cupra Citroen DS Dodge Fiat Ferrari Foton Ford Great Wall FPV Haval GWM Honda Holden Hummer HSV Infiniti Hyundai Jaguar Isuzu Kia Jeep Land Rover Lamborghini Lexus LDV Mahindra Lotus Mazda Maserati Mercedes-AMG McLaren MG Mercedes-Benz Mitsubishi Mini Opel Nissan Peugeot Pagani Proton Porsche Renault Ram Rover Rolls-Royce Skoda Saab SsangYong Smart Suzuki Subaru Toyota Tesla Volvo Volkswagen Motor industry news |
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