The Maybach Pullman is not the most PHey of cars at Geneva but it's impossible to ignore. Mainly that's due to the size - it's 6.5m long and 100mm taller than an S-Class - but also the incredible, magnificent luxury. Four people reside in the rear, sitting face-to-face with an electric partition window, calf supports on their reclining seats and an extra cushion on each headrest. Annoyingly (yet understandably) the queue to just take five minutes in the back of a Maybach was a bit too long. There was an
AMG GT3
That's more up our kind of street
R8 LMS
a short distance away, the impact of the GT3 is not dulled one little bit. It's quite small as GT3 cars go (remember this will race against GT-Rs and Bentley Continentals) but the aggression is off the scale. The dive planes look like they could be used as guillotines, the spoiler is enough to make a GT3 RS look meek and it has side-exit exhausts. Anything with side-exit exhausts is cool.
And a trip to Mercedes at Geneva would not have been complete without a look at the G500 4x4 squared. What a wonderfully daft creation! Again it was a car many were flocking over, the 450mm ground clearance, 22-inch wheels and side-exit exhausts (more cool points) making it really imposing. Even more than a 'normal' G-Class. Plus it was diverting attention from the GLE, which has to be a good thing.
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