Tuesday 13th December 2011

Merc S600 Pullman reborn

Iconic luxury Merc to make a return as flagship model in 2013

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Potentates, dictators and rock stars of the world rejoice - your favourite motor, the Mercedes Pullman, is set to make a comeback in 2013.

Image courtesy of Auto Bild

A 21st-century take on the legendary S 600 Pullman is on the cards following the death of the Maybach brand, according to German car mag Auto Bild.

Based on the next-generation S-class (W222 in Merc-speak), the new flagship model will be a whopping 6.5 metres long, enough to allow an extra row of rear-facing seats in the passenger compartment.

As is befitting of such a car, it will also get a V12 motor (even though the original could only muster V8 power), though details are scarce beyond that.

Still, it all sounds pretty appealing to us. But it remains to be seen whether the 21st-century equivalents of Coco Chanel, Hugh Hefner, Elizabeth Taylor, John Lennon, George Harrison, Aristotle Onassis, Jack Nicholson, Simon Spies, Ronnie Wood, Bob Jane, Frank Packer, Elvis Presley, Rowan Atkinson, Jeremy Clarkson, Ceausescu, Tito, Castro, Pol Pot, Enver Hoxha, Leonid Brezhnev, Kim Il-sung, Kim Jong-Il and Idi Amin (and breathe) will approve of the new Pullman...

Top image: papurojugarpool

 

[Itsallicanafford]

....mmmh, can see these clogging up the streets of Shanghai rather than Slough....

[Zod]

My eyes! That makes a Maybach look good!

[Garlick]

Just calling Ocean Finance for a 2387 month loan.

[Johnboy Mac]

It will be great to see a new Pullman but can't help thinking there's nothing like the original.

[Johnboy Mac]

Zod said:

My eyes! That makes a Maybach look good!

'Image' courtesy of Auto Bild

[Matt UK]

Pah! The rendered image of the new one isn't black and doesn't even have flags!!

Could someone p'shop?

[jimxms]

Garlick said:

Just calling Ocean Finance for a 2387 month loan.

If you can wait to 2018 I'm sure it will be in the barges thread at £5k

[Rawwr]

Garlick said:

Just calling Ocean Finance for a 2387 month loan.

I realise you have an unnaturally disturbing attraction to the three-pointed star but this? It's not 'you'. Maybe when it's about 20-years old it'll be more 'you' but at the moment, I'm afraid not.

[Rawwr]

I think Rowan Atkinson had a Pullman at one point. Just thought I'd mention it.

[McSam]

Rawwr @ Garlick said:

I realise you have an unnaturally disturbing attraction to the three-pointed star but this? It's not 'you'. Maybe when it's about 20-years old it'll be more 'you' but at the moment, I'm afraid not.

As for the car itself, I like the idea - we'll see about the execution, though..

Oh, and Rawwr, Rowan Atkinson is already listed in the article

[hornetrider]

Hideous. Looks like a stretched 300c

[Rawwr]

McSam said:

Oh, and Rawwr, Rowan Atkinson is already listed in the article

I can't read.

[Davey S2]

Rawwr said:

I think Rowan Atkinson had a Pullman at one point. Just thought I'd mention it.

So does Jay Kay. Cocco Channel's old car.

[RedWater]

It isn't the real thing I know, but still wanted to say fk that's ugly! Too much 300C and Bentley wheels!??

[marcosgt]

An airport stretch limo S600 is NOT a Mercedes 600 reborn...

If Merc want a REAL halo car they should go back to the cost no object, built to last forever ethos of the original 600.

M.

[nightflight]

Prefer the original.

[Numeric]

You can almost hear the person locked in the boot hammering to be freed already. When we say wait and see what the 'execution' is like - prospective purchasers might be on a differing wave length.....

[ZesPak]

Well, a very, very logical move considering they dropped the Maybach brand.

[DavidHM]

Like how Clarkson is named in the dictators, rather than celebrities section...

[B10]

Numeric said:

You can almost hear the person locked in the boot hammering to be freed already. When we say wait and see what the 'execution' is like - prospective purchasers might be on a differing wave length.....

Are you from New York already?