Launching this car under the Maybach brand would be a perfect way to give the brand a fresh new start. Off course then they would also have to design the design of the car inside and out in order to make it a unique 400k car.

What you all wanna bet that they make an announcement about this car going to production before the end of the year? I say in about 18-24 months we'll all be sitting here talking about having driven and/or seen one our local MB dealerships. We all know MB will clean it up some to make it production feasible so the door handles will be gone, but the motorized interior bits might stay. My only conern is structural rigidity. Mercedes is the best at building rigid convertibles and I don't want to see that compromised.

M

Here's your answer:

"The hotline to Germany notwithstanding, the only short-term solution proved to be fixed spacers to set the proper ride height, so the Ocean Drive effectively had no suspension travel at all. Riding on rubbery stand-ins rather than a cushion of air limited safe driving to just 25 mph, about the kind of speed you'd expect in a one-off art project instead of a production prototype.

Ironically, this happenstance only better demonstrated the incredible structural rigidity of the Ocean Drive's reinforced S600 chassis. In and out of driveways, over pavement dips and Bott's dots alike, the Ocean Drive didn't jiggle, rattle, moan or groan. Like a production car wearing too-tall wheels with too-short sidewalls, the four-door convertible gently idled through the sunbathed rolling hills near the Pacific Ocean in what we expect will one day be its future natural habitat."

BTW you posted the article.

Yeah I made that statement before I saw the Edmunds article. I think production of this car is done deal. I can't see how they wouldn't build it. It has the potential to turn the high-end market on its ear.

M

OK, I guess I can't get you over your blind love towards MB. I'm just saying it looks almost like a sketch with the unfinished front and thus can't be compared to a production vehicle like the Drophead Coupé.

You guys might think this is an odd thing to say. But I think the ODC has quite a 1930s Art Déco look about it -- much like some of the buildings around Ocean Drive. It reminds me of the 1950s style too.

Toy Car from the 1930s.


It is a very Post-Modern design ....I like it but at the same time I find it to be slightly out-of-step with current design trends ... it looks more like it might have been from the late 1980s

I am [very] vaguely reminded of this bizarre Rolls-Royce

I truly wish MB figures out a solution to give this car a hard folding top made of some light material, and give it a 700 hp AMG V12 to boot. Then it will properly become the overtly ostentatious car it seeks to be.

I also think this car signals the demise of the Maybach as a standalone brand. We may soon see a Maybach by Mercedes type stable, a Z Class so to speak in MB hierarchy, where the engineers will go crazy with stuff they could not afford to put in production even in a Mercedes S.

I hope you realise that i can say the same about you and your bmw love

but imma let it slide this time.. enjoy..haha

Looks like Maybach lives to see another day. New generation of the 57 and 62 are already underway, with the engineers having understood that their styling efforts need to be more bespoke this time.

I also am almost 100 percent sure the OD will be brought to market shortly. I predict at the Sept. 07 show in Frankfurt. SLC 600 may be a potential first model to debut.

Also, a hardtop version of the OD is bound to be planned under the Maybach brand, a CLS to the S Class so to speak, to fend off the renewed offensive of upscale four door coupes from BMW's CS and Aston Martin's Rapide. the CLS does a good enough job to dispense of players such as Porsche Panamera and Jag's entry sometimes into the future.

Oh, and did I mention i think we are also going to see Excelero into production in just a couple of years?

Anyways, my sugar high is done with now!

Any sources or are you just speculating?