Originally Posted by Roberto

......ultimately the Maybach can be judged using the same scales as any other luxury car - it excels because it has more amenities and features than any other luxury car - whereas the Phantom offers a completely unique experience. However, the Phantom does carry with it possibly undesirable long-held connotations of social-rank, snobbishness, privilege, and excess. I find it somewhat amusing that for decades Rolls-Royce was proud to be a genuine blue-blooded symbol of the old-moneyed establishment (even if in reality Rolls-Royce became more synonymous with self-made millionaires) today though, many of those old-world attitudes are viewed negatively as being too discriminating and prejudiced - so what kind of people buy Rolls-Royces in 2006? - the real blue-blooded establishment (and European aristocracy) are much more likely to drive themselves (Audi A6's, A8's, BMW 7ers, Range-Rovers, and Mercedes S, G, or E class's for example) - Maybach's and Phantom's are much more likely to be bought by celebrities and self-made entrepreneurs.