How do you top a car as impressive as the Mercedes-Benz S-Class? With the Mercedes-Maybach S600, everything is just a little bit more over the top, a little more special and a bit more ludicrous.
Everything in an S-Class is already covered in leather, but in the Maybach everything is quilt-stitched – even the center console lid. The door panels are covered in a healthy dose of buttons on the rear doors to control the window shades, seat position, let alone something as mundane as opening and closing a window.
It’s a four-position setup inside, with tons of shades and pillows on the rear headrests. There’s a box in the middle that a security guard said I couldn’t open. It doesn’t have quite the decadence of a Rolls-Royce or Bentley, but then maybe that’s because it’s a lot like the regular Benz’s beautiful rear seat.
Visually, little separates the Mercedes-Maybach from the Mercedes-Benz, apart from the Maybach logos on the pillars and a strange chrome/black window frame treatment that I’m not a fan of. It’s a lot like an S600, only a little bit nicer.
I’m sure Mercedes will sell plenty of the Maybachs in this sandy beige color, but it seems to add a certain level of Hyundai Equus to this car. The black cars seem to exude the elegance Mercedes implies with this car.
But most of all, it’s still a big Mercedes sedan, and the changes make it the car to have for those who can’t stand all the common folk owning Benzes these days.
By Zac Estrada
Photos Zac Estrada / Carscoops
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