It appears from Automotive News that Mercedes sold an estimated 30 Maybachs during the first 3 months of 2006. That is 17% fewer cars than last year. BMW on the other hand sold 84 Phantoms during the same period but down 7% from the previous year's period.
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According to the new issue of Motor Trend,
only 73 Maybachs were produced last year.
Maybe rebadging it as a Mercedes Maybach would
help sales, because you know there are rich
people out there who don't have a clue that it is
produced by DaimlerChrysler. Putting a star on
the trunk might do wonders......just a thought.
I agree, personally i would like to see the tristar on the car rather than the wierd MM badge...but thats just me...
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Sales figures are subjective. The Osaka Ritz Carlton hotel has one as a courtesy limo. Extrapolate that to how many of those 300 sales (if that be the correct number) are glitzy courtesy cars and how many are private vehicles. Funny really, maybe 73 private sales might be near the mark.
But it doesnt look like a solid sales strategy or success does it?
Good God some of you Benz fanboys are blind to reality.
Saying stupid things like maybe 73 was the target number DCX set ...give me a break.
The Maybach is being slaughtered by Rolls-Royce and Bentley simply because it is not as desirable as them ...the Bentley is also far far better value for money ...and yes, even rich people care about that.
When one looks at the performance figures of the Bentley Flying Spur, it is very hard to justify why the MM57S is so much more expensive.
The Maybach brand amounts to not much more than an elaborate PR and marketing exercise ...the whole concept was dreamed up in a cynical and jealous attempt by Daimler Chrysler's execs to out do their great rivals BMW and VAG .....well quite frankly, they have failed miserably.
One of the biggest problems I have with the Maybach, as any true Benz fan probably does, is the fact that the Mercedes-Benz brand was not considered "good enough" to compete against Rolls-Royce - suddenly the world's oldest and most famous car maker was being upstaged by a brand name they bought in the 1960's .......even if Wilhelm Maybach played a major part in the development of Mercedes-Benz, the Maybach brand itself was once a rival of Mercedes-Benz. As a Benz fan, I can't stand the disingenuous spin that Maybach was the "sister" brand of Mercedes -- nothing is further from the truth. The Paris Hiltons of this world might be easy to convince ...but to me, the Maybach is an empty, soulless, and passionless car .....the Phantom leaves it for dead.
Good God some of you Benz fanboys are blind to reality.
Saying stupid things like maybe 73 was the target number DCX set ...give me a break.
The Maybach is being slaughtered by Rolls-Royce and Bentley simply because it is not as desirable as them ...the Bentley is also far far better value for money ...and yes, even rich people care about that.
When one looks at the performance figures of the Bentley Flying Spur, it is very hard to justify why the MM57S is so much more expensive.
The Maybach brand amounts to not much more than an elaborate PR and marketing exercise ...the whole concept was dreamed up in a cynical and jealous attempt by Daimler Chrysler's execs to out do their great rivals BMW and VAG .....well quite frankly, they have failed miserably.
One of the biggest problems I have with the Maybach, as any true Benz fan probably does, is the fact that the Mercedes-Benz brand was not considered "good enough" to compete against Rolls-Royce - suddenly the world's oldest and most famous car maker was being upstaged by a brand name they bought in the 1960's .......even if Wilhelm Maybach played a major part in the development of Mercedes-Benz, the Maybach brand itself was once a rival of Mercedes-Benz. As a Benz fan, I can't stand the disingenuous spin that Maybach was the "sister" brand of Mercedes -- nothing is further from the truth. The Paris Hiltons of this world might be easy to convince ...but to me, the Maybach is an empty, soulless, and passionless car .....the Phantom leaves it for dead.
Why such venom? Everyone and their mother knows that the car is a Mercedes, even non-car people like Paris Hilton. As for souless, it's pretty much got the skeleton of a W140. So what you will about the W140, but NOBODY ever called it souless.
As for the talk the end of Maybach, I just saw a new one in the Louisville KY showroom last week Silver/silver and slightly facelifted. Cars like this don't show up in the showroom unless someone orders it. That's the second one I've seen in the showroom, and I've seen one on the highway. All of this in KENTUCKY. If KY is out here buying up Maybachs, I can only imagine driving around Cali and New York. As long as Bentley is doing well, Mercedes is going to keep producing their answer to it. Period.
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1997 S320 SWB
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