Saudi Hand-Builds Giant Maybach Coupe, Wants You To Buy It

Enthusiasts of out-of-the-park opulence desperately wanted Maybach to build its Exelero concept for production. The prototype's designer took it upon himself to do his own. Now it's for sale. Just don't call it the Canyonaro. It hates that.

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Maybach: The End Is Nigh

amaybach1.jpgBillionaires the world over are bummed. That's right kids, Mercedes-Benz's ultra-luxury marketing disaster experiment is slowly but methodically getting its plug pulled. The skinny: since 2002, Maybach has sold a whopping 800 cars. Here in the United States, the world's biggest market for cars that cost more than…

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Maybach Exelero

Why have a Fantasy Garage if you cant induct a fantasy? That's the question we ask this week, as we nominate the Maybach Exelero show car to the devil-may-care JFG. Cars are getting better and faster every week. But few, if any, have the presence, character and sheer sinisterism of the Exelero. (For sure they have less …

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Maybach to Bring Exelero to Frankfurt

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Mercedes-Benz's Maybach announced it will show its Exelero coupe in Frankfurt next month, giving the public their first close encounter with the ludicrously amuck demo car for Fulda tires. Built on the same platform as the Matbach 57, the Exelero is as completely insane as you'd expect from a Maybach prototype,…

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Piloting Maybach's Batmobile, the Exelero Show Car

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AutoWeek writer Mark Vaughn got a chance to test drive Maybach's sports-coupe prototype, the Exelero — a show car supposedly built, of all things, to test tires. Sure, we'd hardly believed the ultralux Mercedes brand would build such a tire-test mule, though AW reports the project was indeed financed by German…

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Maybach Unveils Exelero Show Car

maybach_exelero.jpgMaybach today unveiled a bulky, high-performance show car — recalling a streamlined Maybach sportster from the 1930s. The two-seater Exelero, developed with help from students at Pforzheim College, sports a 700hp, twin-turbo V12, which recently propelled the 6,000lb brute to 218.4 mph on a test track in Nardo, Italy.

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