You Could Own A Bespoke Maybach Coupe Specced By Muammar Gaddafi

Back in 2010 a company called Xenatec started building a coupe version of the Maybach. The coachbuilders took the back doors off the luxury car and created the Xenatec Maybach 57S Coupe.

The results are pretty stunning, but despite plans to build 200 of them, only eight (or possibly six, depending on who you ask) were ever made. This one, chassis number 004, was purchased by, but never delivered to, then Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, whose regime was toppled in 2011.

As a result of those unforeseen changes, this model has just 2,300 km (1,430 miles) on the odometer, which the seller, the Netherlands’ Auto Leitner, claims makes it the lowest mileage example out there.

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The condition, naturally, is also pretty good. Finished in beige and white inside and out, it is presented in A1 condition, which is hardly surprising, and it features a 6.0-liter V12 producing 612 hp. According to reviews of the car at the time, that was enough to propel this 2.7-tonne car very briskly without any trouble at all.

Gaddafi seems to have ticked every option box. The back seats have a fridge and a phone, there’s a CD and a DVD disc changer and a heated steering wheel. Not really sure how cold it gets in Libya, but it doesn’t hurt to have it anyways.

Xenatec was asking 675,000 Euros in 2011, a healthy amount more than the Maybach 57S sedan. But there will be a pretty solid profit for whoever owns this one now because Auto Leitner posts this car’s price as 961,950 Euros ($1.16 million USD at today’s exchange rates).