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01-31-2009, 01:51 PM
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  | The Original Mercedes-Maybach Concept This is how Mercedes viewed the Maybach in 1997, at the time it was the most advanced and revolutionary car.                 Maybach Prototype in 1998:  Maybach Prototype in 2000:  |
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| Re: The Original Mercedes-Maybach Concept Headlights remind me of...  
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| Re: The Original Mercedes-Maybach Concept Can exactly remind, when this was first time in AMS!!
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| Re: The Original Mercedes-Maybach Concept The original car was hideous & weird with a horrible front-end... thanks God, it never went into production!  The present car looks better by miles! The current sedan is one of the best cars ever built! 
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| Re: The Original Mercedes-Maybach Concept granted the headlights look a bit ill-conceived, but overall, i like it more than the actual car, which looks like a glorified W220 S-class. If I recalled, the production car was built on the W140 chassis, is that correct? |
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| Re: The Original Mercedes-Maybach Concept I think the 3 first pictures are PS. I don't remember a coupe version or a carbrio  Some design elements of the prototype were very nice. Much more exclusive than the 130% upscaling of the old S-Class. Would have made the car more exclusive if they got into production. |
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| Re: The Original Mercedes-Maybach Concept Awesome flashback. The interior design of the concept was horrible and very corporate reminding me of interior lobbies for massive buildings in tax havens like Panama. |
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| Re: The Original Mercedes-Maybach Concept There were no cabrio or coupe versions of the concept. I actually liked the concept interior, but the exterior was beyond awful, way worse than what we have on the road now. Yes the W240 Maybach is based on the W140, but with a lot of W220 hardware, including the W220's airmatic. M
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| The concept and production car are both amazing...I just can't wait under the car a new model or something..
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