nooooo why would you change this brand with supior products and gigantrous v12’s

Heh all the people who wanted one were in the upper echelon of wealth and now have one. They need to fly some to the Arab Emirates theres tons of people who would buy them.

maybe they should have made it look unique instead of just a super mercedes

REDESIGN THE CARS!!!

New S-class looks almost the same! Who in a right mind would spend so much money for a car that looks like a lesser sibling?

The last thing Maybach needs to be is rebadges!! DCX destroys everything it touches!

meh… doesn’t do anything for me

Maybach needs to be shut down, ’cause they got nothin’. Who, in that price class, wouldn’t rather have a Phantom?

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werent satisfied with the first picture LLN

I saw a show on Roger Federer, he rolls in a Maybach.

Thats the way the best tennis player in the world rolls I guess.

maybach needs an axe, thats what it needs

Build the Exelero already. I know Jay-Z will buy at least one. He mentions it in every other song. And if he buys it, you know it’ll sell.

A4 I couldn’t agree more. When will DCX get their priorities straight? Selling big-ass expensive cars to nouveau-riche assbags will not bring in the money that large-volume production can (economies of scale, anyone?)…if DCX even pretended to care about fixing Chrysler instead of selling it off.

Maybach’s aren’t selling because they got screwed when the latest generation S-class came out and looked almost the same. Now when the evidence points to potential buyers not wanting the cars to be linked to lesser Mercedes the company thinks that rebadging Mercs is the way forward. Does anyone else see the flaw here?
Not that it matters anyway, the whole Maybach thing is so small in the Mercedes portfolio as to be almost irrelevant and even if it loses on every car it won’t hurt Merc any more than Bugatti hurts VW.

Saw this at the recent LA auto show, stood by it for ten minutes and every single person said ohhhh the bat mobile, but hell they all said that about the ugly acura concept also….

It is a beautiful concept, I saw it in Sydney

Maybach sucks a little too much with that sedan. They should kill that and make the Exelero only. And after that, just stop.

Redesign the sedans forget about the coupe for now. And screw a rebadged GL.

The problem with the current Maybach sedans is that it looks too similar to lower priced Mercedes S class of the last generation. With the launch of the redesigned new S Class, Maybach sales will be pinched even more. All that extra luxury features will not save the brand.

“its the product”

That executive got fired yesterday for speaking truth.

The Maybach are amazing cars but the reason there not selling is not that many people have personal drivers now a days. The 62 is a car to be driven in, The Rolls-Royce Phantom is a car to drive yourself in.

@Mr.AMG: no rolls will ever be a care to drive, that’s Bentley. They need to take a look at Aston, because they aren’t selling more cars than ever due to their super lux features. They’re selling cars because the cars they build now are bloody gorgeous. Good design can make up for a whole hell of a lot.

I have no clue on this one as I’ll probably never be able to afford one! When it gets to this price range it better be different because everyone will already have V12s, leather, blah blah blah. It has to stand out or have a good following like Cadillac.

Yes, aggressive designs are the only way forward. That did it for Cadillac, BMW and a bunch of other manufacturers. Now if only Ford would have the balls to do it…

jdepould i guess the phantom could be driven and have a driver but ur right, Bentleys are a drivers car.

Everyone is pretty much saying the same things, and I agree wholeheartedly.. but is DCX listening? Rebadges and shared platforms with lesser MB models are a complete NO-NO for buyers in this echelon, and the fact that the 57S and 62S styling still looks like the S-class of two generations ago doesn’t help one bit. The naming convention is also screwy.. doesn’t a Mercedes S65 AMG sound like a nicer, more expensive car than a Maybach 62S, just in name only?

DCX needs to observe what Bentley, R-R and A-M are doing and create a new line of distinctively styled and appointed Maybach sedans AND coupes, and drop the alphanumeric names that sound inferior to those of M-B.. how about Exelero, Echelon, Criterion, etc.?? Otherwise, there isn’t much point in keeping the brand around.

Oh, I almost forgot… NO SUVS AT ALL EVER!!

I personally dont believe there is a market out there substantial enough for a Maybach. They may sell a couple hundred cars but who’ll buy the Exelero for the price of a Veyron? If you got the cash and the opportunity to blow it on a ride, believe me, it’ll be the Veyron.

Bentley and Rolls beats Maybach.

S-Class is not the reason the MAYBACH is not doing well in the marketplace. MAYBACH was introduced several years before the new S-Class, and had been doing awfully since the MAYBACH introduction.

MAYBACH problems start a little with it’s History or Lack of to those it was marketed too. And the biggest problem was it’s price, actually both ROLLS & MAYBACH had slow starts in the marketplace. The only success has been BENTLY.

VW for all of it’s stumbles got BENTLY right. Right Design & especially Right Price.

Who cares! The vast majority can’t buy one (even a used one) so if Maybach goes belly up I say good!