Maybach has revealed Zeppelin editions of its current models in the form of the Maybach 57 Zeppelin and Maybach 62 Zeppelin. While each model will sit at the top of its respective line, the Zeppelin name essentially boils down to a fancy trim package.

A touch under AUD$800,000 will get you into the 57 Zeppelin, and [...]

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The Maybach 62 Landaulet started as an unusual design study from a marque whose sales to the super-rich have been dwindling. Maybach failed to sell even one of its million dollar plus autos in Australia in 2007, while across North America Maybach dealers suffered dwindling sales as the wealthy preferred to plonk their hard earned [...]

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For most high-end automotive manufactures (Maybach being a notable exception) the good times are on a roll with sales at record levels around the globe. The ‘recently rich’ from emerging markets such as Russia and China are proving that their tastes are just as expensive as their older monied capitalist brethren from more established nations.

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Maybach showed us their Landaulet last year, a super luxury limousine that featured an open topped rear section inspired by limousines of days gone by. The general consensus at the time was that Maybach were desperately trying to impress the ‘well heeled’ as the Marque struggled with an uninspiring product line-up that was being comprehensively [...]

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While 2007 was a slow year for Maybach, it was a bumper year for Rolls-Royce Motor Cars, with sales up by 25 percent when compared to 2006. Rolls-Royce managed to shift 1010 cars in 2006, which marks the first time annual sales have breached the four figure mark and is the fourth successive sales increase [...]

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We all knew 2007 was a good year for the car industry. In Australia, the one million sales in a calendar year mark was passed for the first time in history, with many manufacturers posting record sales results in this country. Daimler’s Mercedes-Benz car division has issued a press release claiming that sales of its [...]

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Struggling ultra-luxury car-maker Maybach has only recently unveiled their Landaulet 62S design study. Featuring a 450kW turbo-charged V12 engine and a folding rear roof that harkens back to far classier “gentleman’s carriages” from last century the Landaulet is, lets be honest, a big white ugly whale of a thing. There have been rumours that Maybach [...]

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Not all has been rosy in the halls of Maybach HQ in recent times. The german maker of ultra-luxury vehicles has been comprehensively trounced by the likes of Rolls-Royce and Bentley who are currently at the top of their game – thanks largely to their respective German owners. While Maybach dealers jump ship in the [...]

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While the folks at Maybach dwell on better times, those dapper folk from Goodwood in the UK have broken out the crystal flutes and are busy toasting their recent sales success. Take some English old-school establishment, mix in a healthy dose of German engineering and it seems you can have a sales success – not [...]

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An Extraordinary Shareholders’ Meeting of DaimlerChrysler AG was held overnight and 98.76 percent of the 5,000 or so shareholders voted to change DaimlerChrysler AG to Daimler AG, bringing the corporate title in line with the sell-off of Chrysler earlier this year.

As part of the renaming of the Group as Daimler AG, the company’s production plants [...]

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It seems that all is not well with Mercede’s elite and ultra expensive Maybach line. Sales of exotics and super-expensive luxo barges may be at an all time high but it seems the super rich aren’t buying just anything with a hefty price tag – it’s got to have a little panache as well.

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The International Engine of the Year Awards results are now in for 2007. As expected the BMW V10 took the performance engine award and Volkswagen took the gong for Best new Engine with its 1.4-litre TSI engine.

The awards are organised by UKIP Media & Events - Automotive Magazines Division which is Britain’s largest group of [...]

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