The Fresh Mercedes-Maybach Is the 6-Meter-Long Car of Your Wishes
Tonight in Carmel, Calif., Mercedes-Benz unveiled the latest of its Maybach line: the Vision Mercedes-Maybach 6.
The gullwing Two+Two concept has a low, sleek rubber hood, a massive touchscreen inwards, and an all-electric powertrain. It’s meant to demonstrate what a Mercedes-Benz car could look like, and do, in ten or fifteen years' time.
The Vision Mercedes-Maybach six concept car.
Named for its 6-meter length, the Mercedes-Maybach six is totally electrical, with a massive battery pack located along the bottom of the car. The engine can achieve seven hundred fifty horsepower; the car will hit sixty mph in less than four seconds. It has an automatic driving function, albeit Mercedes executives said it’s meant to be driven.
“This is a car you want to drive yourself,” Gorden Wagener, the Daimler AG head of design, told attendees at a cocktail-heavy debut event held on the lawn of the famous Pebble Beach Resort. Mercedes VIP buyers and media drank champagne and ate canapés while white private yachts floated in the nearby bay. 
“We see a big movement in analog things, and they are sustainable. … This is something you pass to your children, like a Leica camera or a chronograph observe. Driving has been a pleasure since one hundred thirty years and will stay that way another one hundred thirty years.”
The interior features steering wheel dials and warm, polished wood accents.
The grille on the front is made to look like the pinstripes on a suit; the 24-inch rims, dual rear window, narrow side “mirrors” and spine-like divide along the back make the car utterly distinctive. Mercedes executives said it is meant to evoke emotion and intelligence, hot passion and cool rationality: “The key is to combine them,” Wagener said.
Inwards, albeit media were not permitted to open the doors to the concept model, the car evidently has spacious seating for four. It has dials behind the steering wheel made to look like the dial on a mechanical observe and warm, polished wood accents. Executives say it can charge to a range of sixty two miles in five minutes, if you use the strongest charger.
The rear and grille give the car a distinctive look.
This is the latest product unveiled since Mercedes reignited the Daimler-owned Maybach line. Maybach had discontinued its standalone cars in December two thousand twelve after years of making the type of stately European-style schooners that power players such as Jay-Z and Swizz Beatz drove around Fresh York City. It launched the $1 million Mercedes-Maybach S600 Pullman and the $192,000 Mercedes-Maybach S600 sedan last year.
Mercedes executives wouldn’t comment on if, or when, they might produce the Mercedes-Maybach 6, but they certainly picked the right time to introduce such a statuesque car. The Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance—the world’s premier car demonstrate and auction site, which showcases the most beautiful and expensive cars ever made—starts Sunday.
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