RE: Maybach 62 | The Brave Pill
Discussion
The Crack Fox said:
The Brave Pill? What is brave is spending £30k on this, when it will be worth £3k in another 5-10 years.
It has aged really, really badly, the tech is dated, the brand means nothing, and the bills will be mental. Actually, I wouldn't touch it at £3k, and I usually like exotic snotters.
It'd be hilarious for 3 bags. When it breaks catastrophically park it in the garden and use it as a play house for the kidsIt has aged really, really badly, the tech is dated, the brand means nothing, and the bills will be mental. Actually, I wouldn't touch it at £3k, and I usually like exotic snotters.
I think this is the cheapest way of making people think you are filthy rich!
People say the brand means nothing but I disagree, a Maybach is a Maybach!
The only use I can think of for this car is either a very rich man who wants to be driven around in comfort who doesn’t care about technology and doesn’t want to buy a 300k roller or a scam artist, a person who scams young footballers with bogus investments etc.
Both are very unlikely
People say the brand means nothing but I disagree, a Maybach is a Maybach!
The only use I can think of for this car is either a very rich man who wants to be driven around in comfort who doesn’t care about technology and doesn’t want to buy a 300k roller or a scam artist, a person who scams young footballers with bogus investments etc.
Both are very unlikely
If I was one of those 'Youtubers' with the mentality and annoying tone of voice that loved to buy crashed Gallardo's and rebuild them on the cheap, I would buy this instead, and make a series of videos about turning it in to track limo. Those engines will take far more power, then lower it and completely upgrade the suspension for a more 'dedicated' purpose, and then just generally do even more ridiculously inappropriate mods to it, all for the sake of more YT views, likes and shares. Hell, I'd watch them! 
XB70 said:
I'm in the minority here and would love it.
I drove a 750il around when only my wife and me, and have drunk deeply from the cup of bargedom!
That and a e38 L7.....and fifteen credit cards!
Ideal for autobahn hooning
I admire your style but this things a full metre longer than your 750il. It's not a barge it's a genuine canal narrow boat.I drove a 750il around when only my wife and me, and have drunk deeply from the cup of bargedom!
That and a e38 L7.....and fifteen credit cards!
Ideal for autobahn hooning
Bizarrely this utter liability is considerably more expensive. Can't believe anyone will ever buy this one - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PG2CoivP9C4
$69,000 for a replacement roof for the translucent version.
Hmm.
$69,000 for a replacement roof for the translucent version.
Hmm.
Edited by bloomen on Sunday 22 September 13:54
Chestrockwell said:
I think this is the cheapest way of making people think you are filthy rich!
People say the brand means nothing but I disagree, a Maybach is a Maybach!
The only use I can think of for this car is either a very rich man who wants to be driven around in comfort who doesn’t care about technology and doesn’t want to buy a 300k roller or a scam artist, a person who scams young footballers with bogus investments etc.
Both are very unlikely
No it would not.The maybach has presence but it does not the type of presence that a rolls or a bentley would have.People say the brand means nothing but I disagree, a Maybach is a Maybach!
The only use I can think of for this car is either a very rich man who wants to be driven around in comfort who doesn’t care about technology and doesn’t want to buy a 300k roller or a scam artist, a person who scams young footballers with bogus investments etc.
Both are very unlikely
Plate spinner said:
Struggling to see the target market.
Not sure many private punters would want to drive it.
And if it’s being put to work (as was the design brief) for lower tier hotels / restaurants/ airport transfers, it’ll have horrendous running costs vs the standard S320cdi that is expected at that level.
Bit of a baffling one really.
Not only running costs but I reckon punters would prefer riding in a much newer £40k S Class with the much more modern tech inside. This probably has built in DVD player on tiny screens, analogue tv, no WiFi etc.. Not sure many private punters would want to drive it.
And if it’s being put to work (as was the design brief) for lower tier hotels / restaurants/ airport transfers, it’ll have horrendous running costs vs the standard S320cdi that is expected at that level.
Bit of a baffling one really.
Edited by Hub on Sunday 22 September 17:55
You'd have to be brave to buy it, brave to have it serviced it and brave to be seen in it. Brave to park it, brave to refuel it, brave to reverse it, brave to insure it, brave to look at it.
Its technology is also now old hat and just because it was £330K back in the early 2000s doesn't mean anything today (would you buy a used £16K, top of the range, plasma TV from many years ago for £1.6K?).... Guess it will end up as a wedding car, but you'd need to a brave to use it for that too for all the reasons above.
Maybe a museum piece for the future when future 'drivers' are all in cloned electric, self driving boxes - they can look at astonishment at a car which ran on fossil fuel with love it or hate it styling and high luxury in much the same way as we might look at a 1930s Duesenberg today...
In its favour I have to say it fits the "Brave Pill" brief absolutely perfectly.
Its technology is also now old hat and just because it was £330K back in the early 2000s doesn't mean anything today (would you buy a used £16K, top of the range, plasma TV from many years ago for £1.6K?).... Guess it will end up as a wedding car, but you'd need to a brave to use it for that too for all the reasons above.
Maybe a museum piece for the future when future 'drivers' are all in cloned electric, self driving boxes - they can look at astonishment at a car which ran on fossil fuel with love it or hate it styling and high luxury in much the same way as we might look at a 1930s Duesenberg today...
In its favour I have to say it fits the "Brave Pill" brief absolutely perfectly.
edwheels said:
In its favour I have to say it fits the "Brave Pill" brief absolutely perfectly.
I think it's crossed brave and gone into the A Bit Special category. I would really love to sample the back on a lengthy trip. There would be hardly anything else like it. It would be the rest of time that I'd be weeping uncontrollably.
Most definitely the type of vehicle I'd only want to use if it were someone else's problem.
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