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Many private jets will be descending on the coast a few hours" drive south of San Francisco this weekend. When ultra-high end classic car concours Pebble Beach is happening, so is the money.So it makes sense for Mercedes to hijack Monterey car week to deliver an all-new insight into its future thinking on ber-luxo brand, Maybach.And it"s thinking big. Huge, in fact. The Vision Mercedes-Maybach is almost six metres long, an imperious looking, super-swoopy coupe that takes its cue from epic 1930s Mercedes models like the SSK and 540K. Mercedes insists the 6 is not retro, but latter-day Gatsbys these days most likely located in Silicon Valley or Wall Street"s hedge funds definitely figure. Luxury, you see, is getting younger, and more discerning than ever."Our sensational Coup represents the ultimate in contemporary luxury. It is hot and cool," Daimler AG"s design boss Professor Gorden Wagener says somewhat bafflingly. "With its intelligent appeal and reduced, technoid look, it perfectly embodies our design philosophy of sensual purity and our pursuit of aerodynamic efficiency."Sensually technoid, then (blame Google Translate). It"s certainly hi-tech, if not quite as far out as the psychedelically imaginative Rolls-Royce Vision Next 100, which is chasing a similarly minted future demographic. Like the Roller, the Maybach 6 also junks dreary old internal combustion in favour of fully electric propulsion, a format signalled by the LED strips that run the length of the sills.There are synchronous electric motors on each wheel, with batteries stored under the floor. Mercedes (-Maybach) claims 550 kW or 750bhp overall, enough to power this flamboyantly tailored behemoth to 62mph in less than four seconds, although such unseemly behaviour would no doubt hobble its 200-mile range.The 6 can be replenished wirelessly or via an electromagnetic field, and quick-charging fires enough juice into the system in just five minutes to deliver 65 miles of range. Well, rich people don"t want to be faffing about with chunky cabling, do they?
Date written: 17 Aug 2016
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 4722
Many private jets will be descending on the coast a few hours" drive south of San Francisco this weekend. When ultra-high end classic car concours Pebble Beach is happening, so is the money.So it makes sense for Mercedes to hijack Monterey car week to deliver an all-new insight into its future thinking on ber-luxo brand, Maybach.And it"s thinking big. Huge, in fact. The Vision Mercedes-Maybach is almost six metres long, an imperious looking, super-swoopy coupe that takes its cue from epic 1930s Mercedes models like the SSK and 540K. Mercedes insists the 6 is not retro, but latter-day Gatsbys these days most likely located in Silicon Valley or Wall Street"s hedge funds definitely figure. Luxury, you see, is getting younger, and more discerning than ever."Our sensational Coup represents the ultimate in contemporary luxury. It is hot and cool," Daimler AG"s design boss Professor Gorden Wagener says somewhat bafflingly. "With its intelligent appeal and reduced, technoid look, it perfectly embodies our design philosophy of sensual purity and our pursuit of aerodynamic efficiency."Sensually technoid, then (blame Google Translate). It"s certainly hi-tech, if not quite as far out as the psychedelically imaginative Rolls-Royce Vision Next 100, which is chasing a similarly minted future demographic. Like the Roller, the Maybach 6 also junks dreary old internal combustion in favour of fully electric propulsion, a format signalled by the LED strips that run the length of the sills.There are synchronous electric motors on each wheel, with batteries stored under the floor. Mercedes (-Maybach) claims 550 kW or 750bhp overall, enough to power this flamboyantly tailored behemoth to 62mph in less than four seconds, although such unseemly behaviour would no doubt hobble its 200-mile range.The 6 can be replenished wirelessly or via an electromagnetic field, and quick-charging fires enough juice into the system in just five minutes to deliver 65 miles of range. Well, rich people don"t want to be faffing about with chunky cabling, do they?
Date written: 17 Aug 2016
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 4722
