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I should get something across before I continue, I am not the owner of this vehicle (though I deeply wish I was.) I am a chauffeur working in Los Angeles, and the company I work for recently purchased a Maybach 62, which I have had the pleasure to drive several times.
Absolutely nothing has gone wrong with this car yet, and I do not expect any problems within the next five years. Furthermore, I expect this vehicle to still drive as fantastically as it does today twenty years from now.
I thought at first that the Maybach sedans are merely larger S-Classes with more luxury. The thought was quickly dissolved when I had the chance to drive the vehicle from LA to San Bernardino and back. The way this vehicle drives surpasses the S500 in every department, the shifter reads my mind, and the power is extraordinary. You can really push the Maybach on the freeway, but it keeps itself under control. For a vehicle with a mass as extreme, I am dumbfounded by how nimble and precise the handling is.
Before picking up the gentleman I was driving, my colleagues and I had the chance to sit in the back. The sheer luxury is incomparable to any production vehicle on the market today, it makes our S500s seem like Economy cars. The passengers are pampered with a ballroom floor, two large screen entertainment systems, perfectly positioned and unobtrusive headrests among many other opulent features. There is no argument, This is the most luxurious vehicle we have ever had the chance of using.
One problem, if one can call it that, is that the Maybach 62 is very long. Since this is my job, I am used to limousine type vehicles, but it is much different from driving an S-class. I had to be very careful around parking lots, since for about two years now I have only driven S-classes with the exception of a few stretched vehicles. A private owner may find the task of maneuvering the car around heavy traffic, or smaller streets difficult at first.
The price of the car means exclusivity, and wherever I drove this car I was stared at. Young people, older people and generally everyone within a 25 foot radius of the car immediately stops whatever they happen to be doing to take a look. This is something you don't get when driving an S-Class around LA, but I heard from other drivers that on occasion some passengers they drove felt that the constant attention from passers-by was more obtrusive than enjoyable, especially after stressful meetings and such.
Either way, driving this vehicle is a pleasure that cannot be matched by any other automobile on the market today. I found the ride quality to be excellent, the luxury superb, and the magnificent look to be true perfection. I recommend this car to anyone who wants to own what is, in my opinion, the worlds best luxury sedan.
I give him credit for his honesty. He admits he isn't the owner, whereas many would lie and say they are. At least this review has a sense of believability.
I totally agree who would own a car like that people buy those kind of cars to get drivrn around in them not to drive them yourself that would make you look stupid driving to the supermarket in your maybach haha, but I agree this review is very believable.
The review does seem to have some credibility. But what does it tell you that you can't already guess just by looking at a picture of the car.
The reviewer is basically saying: the car is too long, the car is hard to park, everyone stares at you.
Now if you were a busy chauffer, would you really log onto this web site, just to state the obvious?
Sorry, all these Maybach reviews are unlikely to be genuine. But nice try anyway.
Whoever wrote the review is a tosser.
Hi there guys.
I agree, with most of you, people with enough money to buy a Maybach normally don't have time to browse carsurvey. com and brag about their cars.
Therefor I hereby tell you that I don't have the money to buy a Maybach, not even an S-Class to be honest.
BUT... I am in the lucky position to test drive a Maybach 57 soon and next month I will be driving a Rolls-Royce Phantom during a factory visit.
Just to let you guys know what it is to drive these cars I will post reviews of both cars right after I tested them.
I am in total agreement with all facets of the comments that were previously elucidated and have not come to a sizeable conclusion as to whether or not I will purchase said vehicle in the near or foreseeable future, notwithstanding the large sense of gratitude that is encompassed by the use of words that I do not undertand. Huh?
Yeah...what he said.
I am extremely lucky to own this car due to my last album going Platinum, I truly believe you cannot comment on this car until you own one. this car is the most comfortable car I've ever been in and I've been in the the best cars and owned the best cars in the world. however I too admire the reviewers honesty in that he does not own one. keep your chin up lad and keep playing the lottery.
Willy tee.
The best part about the Maybach is you can instantly tell old money from new money.
Anyone driving or being chauffeured in a Maybach is new money with zero class.
Better to be "New Money" and rich with zero class than have no money and lots of class.
Old money is inherited wealth, so why would you admire someone who was born into money by a mere accident of birth more than someone who has worked hard and been smart enough to become rich?
The reviewer is correct in what he says about the car.
It is great and makes you feel like royalty. The thing about “constant attention from passers-by” is not that bad because you can close the electric curtains when you are bored of smiling back at them. Actually the car is externally more understated than many other posh cars and probably gets less or a similar amount of attention than many other executive vehicle. E.G. Bentley’s, Rolls Royce, Even stretched limos or a Hummer (Stretched or not). Parking is not a problem after you get used to the length, especially if you use the very good parking sensors. For me the best feature is the glass roof that changes from black to clear at the touch of a button. On a clear day/night the sky looks great as you look ahead from your reclined, virtually horizontal, seating position.
If you can afford one and want a new car then you will be able to arrange a test drive and review the car yourself. If you are very, very rich you maybe able to borrow one for a few days from Maybach. Many pop stars etc. are given a Maybach for a few days when for example they go on tour.
If you are ‘jealous of the more fortunate’ and have no chance of buying one, you may come to a forum like this and criticize the posters like has happened in a few of these posts!!! Stop criticizing others and try it yourselves. Google lists a chauffeur company with one, cheaper than buying: http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=chauffeured+Maybach+62.
No, "New Money" does not necessarily mean someone "has worked hard and been smart". Ever heard of corruption- especially in high places? Or is that O.K.?!
Of course it's not OK, but New Money is not necessarily corrupt money.
You're just being negative and are probably jealous of the rich.
I`m pleased you`ve understood and agreed with the point I was making. Those who make their fortunes honestly and legitimately, are not the issue here. It`s the "other" bunch I was referring to- the selfish, egotistical types, devoid of any social conscience or morals, who live by the concept of "Greed is Good"- like company directors who award themselves millions of dollars a year in salaries, or like managers of celebrities, who systematically bleed their clients dry. Should we admire them simply because they`re rich too? I think not. THAT was my point. So where does your flippant comment regarding 'negativism' and 'jealously' come into all this- unless you`re one of the "Greed is Good" brigade yourself? And I`m sure you`re not.
New money vs. old money is a mindset, not necessarily self made vs. inherited.
Old money does not have to prove anything, doesn't have to show off. New money is tasteless and thrives on hideous displays of wealth like the Maybach.
Just look at the Brunei royalty. Here you have inherited wealth that is total new money. After all, how many rich people with class would name their huge yacht "T*ts"?
The Maybach, like Hummers and any car with spinners, makes it easy to point out the low class types.