RE: Maybach 57: Spotted

[WCZ]

great value for money and in black these are very subtle cars which look classy and phantom aside are unrivaled for comfort inside

[Lowtimer]

Well, purely on the basis of a quick PH ads search if you do a search maybe they do
https://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds?Category=u...

[cookie1600]

I'm out...

[northwest monkey]

WCZ said:

great value for money and in black these are very subtle cars which look classy and phantom aside are unrivaled for comfort inside

Being subtle doesn't help it at £50k though. If anything, it's too subtle. If you're absolutely minted, dropping £300k plus on a subtle car is a good thing. If you're absolutely minted though, you don't have a 10-year old one.

If you're in the market for as much flash as you can get for £50k, you'd be going for a Bentley, an X5, Q7 etc. - something to "impress the neighbours". You can't impress the neighbours in a Maybach as 99% of people won't have a clue what it is & you don't want to have to explain all the time "based on a Mercedes" etc.

Also, could you even finance one of these?

I hope for the dealers sake they have it on SOR!

[Trophy-GTA]

At £50k this makes a lot of sense as a wedding hire car. Not many around and would make that £50k back in no time.

[Reeves_and_Mortimer]

And how many adverts do you see that say 'Still has original silver goblets'!!!

[Ares]

Ironically I bumped into a guy at the bike shop this morning that was running a 62. He used it as both family car (two teenagers) but also with a driver to run him around for business.

He paid (I think) £60k for it year ago and was dead happy with it. Had a sit in it, and have to say, the rear is a lovely place to be, crazy comfy.


The only other one I've ever been in was a client of mine that had a chrome wrapped one, again a '62 - took a couple of trips in that, far higher spec, and that was the perfect cabin to munch through 100s of miles - which he did regularly. He's now got a Range Rover, similarly kitted out inside, same chrome wrap.

[J4CKO]

Trophy-GTA said:

At £50k this makes a lot of sense as a wedding hire car. Not many around and would make that £50k back in no time.

Define "No Time"

[Ares]

J4CKO said:

Trophy-GTA said:

At £50k this makes a lot of sense as a wedding hire car. Not many around and would make that £50k back in no time.

Define "No Time"

A long time.

We had a 1959 Silver Cloud as our wedding car. It cost us £300. The Maybach wouldn't get half that.

You may be able to do 2, perhaps 3 weddings per Saturday, and perhaps a couple more during the week. So say 5 wedding a week, £750. That would be pushing a year and a half...of you had that business all year round AND no running costs.

Assume 50% running costs, and a 50% drop off in business away from summer, that would be more like 4-5 years.

[Nickbrapp]

I saw one of these in London on Saturday, it looked less chintzy than a new s class but it just blended in really

[WCZ]

anonymous said:

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yes


also this is an insane amount of car for the money:

https://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/...

[Ares]

WCZ said:

also this is an insane amount of car for the money:

https://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/...

Thats a lot of car for the money.

[TooMany2cvs]

WCZ said:

also this is an insane amount of car for the money:

https://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/...

<nods>
Can somebody explain to me why an ex-wedding hire Maybach is worth 2.5x that? No, thought not.

[J4CKO]

TooMany2cvs said:

WCZ said:

also this is an insane amount of car for the money:

https://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/...

<nods>
Can somebody explain to me why an ex-wedding hire Maybach is worth 2.5x that? No, thought not.

Doubt that will sell for 20 grand either, based on my experience of trying to sell my 2008 CLS at a quarter of that !

[WCZ]

TooMany2cvs said:

<nods>
Can somebody explain to me why an ex-wedding hire Maybach is worth 2.5x that? No, thought not.

seats in the rear, rear info/entertainment system etc are in different leagues but the S is very good

[nullogik]

The Maybach is based on the W140 chassis. Anyone thinking of buying one as a potential barge should be warned prices are not the same as for a W140. An owner in the US was quoted $22.5k for a new brake booster and $15k for a rebuilt one. $12k for an alternator. I think even by Rolls/Bentley standards that is extremely expensive.

I can't understand why used Maybach residuals are still so high considering the car was a flop, has a poor image and parts prices are sky high. Demand on the used car market must be miniscule given that most people looking for a used prestige car will gravitate towards a used Rolls or Bentley. Yet they seem to command decent values. Though asking and getting are two different things and these cars tend to be on the market for years.

[Schermerhorn]

Isn't the chassis based on the W140?

[Ares]

anonymous said:

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It was designed 20yrs ago though!

[TooMany2cvs]

Googling the reg of that black 62 finds more pics of it on a plate-fondler site, platewave.com

And one of the other "similar" pics linked is to a 57 wearing a plate that used to be on the advertised white car...
http://platewave.com/maybach/photos/40853/maybach-...


So that's the shade that's under the wrap. BIG improvement...

Pity the front bumper's a totally different shade, though.

[J4CKO]

TooMany2cvs said:

Googling the reg of that black 62 finds more pics of it on a plate-fondler site, platewave.com

And one of the other "similar" pics linked is to a 57 wearing a plate that used to be on the advertised white car...
http://platewave.com/maybach/photos/40853/maybach-...


So that's the shade that's under the wrap. BIG improvement...

Pity the front bumper's a totally different shade, though.

Its like someone inflated and uglified an MG ZT.