From the May/June issue of Vehicle and Driver.
For the greater part of us, scoring a decent arrangement implies catching a two-for-one coupon on Cinnamon Toast Mash at the supermarket or getting an irregular check for $2.84 from a legal claim you failed to remember you joined. In any case, for others, a decent arrangement seems to be the Mercedes-Maybach S680 4Matic — a quarter-million-dollar V-12 limo that offers silver champagne woodwinds and a secondary lounge refrigerator. Move back from the guillotine briefly, and we’ll make sense of it.
In the realm of ultraluxury cars, likewise, with standard vehicles, SUVs are the stylish thing and order premium costs. The last V-8 Bentley Bentayga S we tried cost $302,910, and a V-12 Rolls-Royce Cullinan can undoubtedly cross the half-million-dollar mark. Against those measuring sticks, the Maybach we drove seems to be a take. Consider what $245,650 gets you: a 621-hp twin-turbocharged 6.0-liter V-12, back seats to disgrace the ones you could see as on a personal luxury plane (complete with folding tables), and power back entryways you have some control over with hand signals. Partake in your glass of Louis Roederer, Jedi, as you utilize the Power to close your entryway.
HIGHS: Really wanton secondary lounges, startling games vehicle reflexes, truly a decent worth.
In the meantime, the high-dollar SUVs — even Mercedes-Maybach’s own GLS — will more often than not mix in with the wide range of various body-on-outline behemoths on American streets. Be that as it may, a vehicle the size of a monster SUV? Presently we’re talking road presence, and the S680’s 133.7-inch wheelbase is inside a half-inch of a Chevy Rural’s. The impact is one of extreme danger — like you need to meet whoever moves out of the back, yet in addition, perhaps you don’t. And, surprisingly, however, the S680 is a transformed kind of S-class, no one errors it for an off-the-rack Benz. Would it be a good idea for you to really want to show spectators how to articulate it, here’s a helpful memory helper instrument: It’s not your-bach, it’s my-bach.
While the S680’s $6000 Leader Back Seat In addition to the bundle brings two of the most extravagant seats in a cutting-edge vehicle, your driver will have an extraordinary time front and center as well. That V-12, with its 664 pound-feet of force, just disregards the S680’s 5301 pounds and tears this land yacht to 60 mph in 3.7 seconds. The S680 blows past the quarter-mile in 11.9 seconds at 120 mph, calculates that puts it generally house to house with a C7 Corvette Stingray. Benz’s four-entryway leviathan presents more body roll than a dashing sloop yet at the same time posts a noteworthy 0.92 g of stick on the skidpad. A vehicle this huge doesn’t seem like it ought to move like this, yet that is important for the allure — a couple dozen layers underneath the sophisticated limousine, there’s a games car anticipating a rash goad of the choke. Back hub directing empowers exuberant reactions, with as much as 10.0 levels of countersteer with the 19-inch wheels (Mercedes consigns the 21-inch and staggered 20-inch to 4.5 degrees).
LOWS: Delicate brake pedal, 14-mpg EPA consolidated rating, amending the people’s error of “Maybach.”
Along these lines, back to cost. The S680’s $232,750 base sticker places it in uncommon air. However it appears to be a can foresee a vehicle offering such a lot of extravagance, execution, and V-12 star quality. Maybach exists in a peculiar space, a top-notch variety of a generally elite marque, yet without a remarkable identification grandiosity of a worshiped independent like Bentley or Rolls (the two organizations Mercedes-Maybach clearly distinguishes as contenders). All in all, this almost $250K vehicle feels like it could legitimately cost $100K more. If you can compose that check, the S680 is a vehicle writ huge.
