RE: Maybach 62 | The Brave Pill
Discussion
E63M said:
Don't get the hate for these, if I wanted to spend 30k to buy a luxury car, one of these would be high on my list.
Not the best thing to look at I agree, but little (or nothing) will come close for luxury, gadgets, brand prestige and original list price
I think my issue with it is that at some point relatively soon, or lurking already, there WILL be a bill that proves fatal to it yet it's still in the tens of thousands and hardly anyone else would have the balls to buy it off you. Not the best thing to look at I agree, but little (or nothing) will come close for luxury, gadgets, brand prestige and original list price
You could coax a 7 series or S class into a bit more life with a bit of creativity and their purchase price offsets that outcome to an extent. You won't have a hope with this.
I guess you could do very, very nicely breaking it. There won't be anyone else on the planet who will be.
eldar said:
Welshbeef said:
Then Jeremy Clarkson buys it in 15 years time and oh its the next Gosser I’ll show off mine get the market moving on it make a killing
Doubt it. The only outstanding thing about it is the depreciation and running costs.It’ll be down there with the rusty and unloved 70s Rollers.
k we’ve invented by then picks one up, then it will be worth money.Mr Dendrite said:
Welshbeef is right another 15 years and the current personality tv/internet/whatever the fk we’ve invented by then picks one up, then it will be worth money.
In 15 years you'll probably have 100 people in Thunberg masks pull you out of it and slit you to death, that's if it's legal for it to be anywhere near a road.k we’ve invented by then picks one up, then it will be worth money.It could work as a caravan of some sort.
bloomen said:
Mr Dendrite said:
Welshbeef is right another 15 years and the current personality tv/internet/whatever the fk we’ve invented by then picks one up, then it will be worth money.
In 15 years you'll probably have 100 people in Thunberg masks pull you out of it and slit you to death. k we’ve invented by then picks one up, then it will be worth money.
Mr Dendrite said:
Yeah you’re probably right, but I still drove a Grosser as a spotty teenager working at a petrol station
I am very curious to see what posterity makes of these. A Grosser has massive presence, attitude and baggage that eventually ripened. These lack the connotations.
bloomen said:
Mr Dendrite said:
Yeah you’re probably right, but I still drove a Grosser as a spotty teenager working at a petrol station
I am very curious to see what posterity makes of these. A Grosser has massive presence, attitude and baggage that eventually ripened. These lack the connotations.
Edited by Mr Dendrite on Monday 23 September 21:17
Richard-vaszy said:
It's cars like this that are the reason I'm not allowed to shop for cars without supervision ??
Oh yes! You and me both. Since I saw that article about the Toyota Century convertible, I've been looking through the classic car ads looking to see what's available. 5 litre V12? Saloon shape that looks as if it was designed in the 60's? net curtains on the rear windows? crimson velour upholstory? single figure MPG? parts availability virtually impossible unless imported from Japan - where do I sign?
Hairymonster said:
Richard-vaszy said:
It's cars like this that are the reason I'm not allowed to shop for cars without supervision ??
Oh yes! You and me both. Since I saw that article about the Toyota Century convertible, I've been looking through the classic car ads looking to see what's available. 5 litre V12? Saloon shape that looks as if it was designed in the 60's? net curtains on the rear windows? crimson velour upholstory? single figure MPG? parts availability virtually impossible unless imported from Japan - where do I sign?
Undoubtedly full of top quality engineering and massively soothing to ride in, but even at £40k, would you really want it? Or want to be seen in it? It's one of those cars that make you wonder what the decision-takers had been smoking when they approved it for production as a valid business proposition. The fish-faced Ford Scorpio is another example, the dreary sad-faced Bangle 7 Series another. How can they not see it? If the journalists couldn't find a good angle on the Maybach, how did its makers not see that it just looks like an ungainly mongrel of an S Class trying to grow curvy hips like an old Bentley? Hard to feel sorry for them. And hard to feel sorry for those who sunk their cash into buying one as it's just not special enough and they should have seen that before signing.
One of the best comments was to wrap it white and make it work at weekends to make it pay for its considerable thirst. Or alternatively, as many of them already do, it could just relax as a chauffered courtesy car for a posh hotel in the Far East. Any of us would appreciate a one-off ride in that scenario. To complete the image, it just needs a boomerang aerial on the boot. Was that a factory option?
One of the best comments was to wrap it white and make it work at weekends to make it pay for its considerable thirst. Or alternatively, as many of them already do, it could just relax as a chauffered courtesy car for a posh hotel in the Far East. Any of us would appreciate a one-off ride in that scenario. To complete the image, it just needs a boomerang aerial on the boot. Was that a factory option?
alorotom said:
Have to admit, I keep coming back to this article and keep looking at 62s. I’m stupidly tempted.
Do you have a driver? The back is where it's at. No way would I lay out for it and let my passengers get all the benefit. They'd all be forced in the front and I'd raise my partition and deliver the occasional electric shock. As it happens, a current Maybach was outside the office at lunch time.
They are just an S600 with some frills to me. sat in one a few motorshows ago and it just felt like a S class (and that trend at the moment to pick a million different surface treatments and thrown them in).
The 57 I think was a mistake....it rammed home that a w221 in s600 spec was near enough the same at a fraction of the price.
The USP of the Maybach was the rear seating area. I never did get to sit in a 62 but did sit in the back of a Phantom (parked). Hugely underwhelming but to each their own. I prefer the interior of a w140 s600 to the mess of a current s600 for example.
No one has mentioned the Laundeluet (hilarious) but I did take a photo at MB World of a stretched 62. Yes, the Seawise Giant of the automotive world. The rear facing seats were the same recliner as the forward facing ones. I will try and find the photo. the front shock was gone so it was 'kneeling'.
I'd still get one, madness as it is, but the spare parts must cost a fortune.
They are just an S600 with some frills to me. sat in one a few motorshows ago and it just felt like a S class (and that trend at the moment to pick a million different surface treatments and thrown them in).
The 57 I think was a mistake....it rammed home that a w221 in s600 spec was near enough the same at a fraction of the price.
The USP of the Maybach was the rear seating area. I never did get to sit in a 62 but did sit in the back of a Phantom (parked). Hugely underwhelming but to each their own. I prefer the interior of a w140 s600 to the mess of a current s600 for example.
No one has mentioned the Laundeluet (hilarious) but I did take a photo at MB World of a stretched 62. Yes, the Seawise Giant of the automotive world. The rear facing seats were the same recliner as the forward facing ones. I will try and find the photo. the front shock was gone so it was 'kneeling'.
I'd still get one, madness as it is, but the spare parts must cost a fortune.
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