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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 black paint.) Designed by a student named Fredrik Burchhardt, the Exelero glistens with the kind of unpolished enthusiasm you'd expect from a kid in art school who has yet to be beaten with the savage realities of the corporate world. The meanest-ever Maybach ought to be a shoe in, and we haven't even started discussing what's beneath its glistening surface. Nor, most troubling of all, why DCX never built the sick-ass thing.
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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 black paint.) Designed by a student named Fredrik Burchhardt, the Exelero glistens with the kind of unpolished enthusiasm you'd expect from a kid in art school who has yet to be beaten with the savage realities of the corporate world. The meanest-ever Maybach ought to be a shoe in, and we haven't even started discussing what's beneath its glistening surface. Nor, most troubling of all, why DCX never built the sick-ass thing.
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11:30 AM on Wed Sep 5 2007
By Jonny Lieberman
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Latest by F50F60: The Exelero is not a car. It's a pantomime of man's dark soul!!!!!! If I was a Hollywood producer and wanted to produce a movie about Richard Kuklinski. I would insist that he would drive the Exelero with the license more »
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Maybach to Bring Exelero to Frankfurt
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, sporting a 700hp, twin-turbo V12, 218mph top end and what could be the world's largest sheetmetal tuxedo. More »
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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 tiremaker Fulda to publicize the new Carat Exelero tire. Nonetheless, the car just happens to be perfect for the tires, which are rated to bring a 7000lb car safely to over 200mph and back. Still the Exelero is really a body-by-Stola Maybach 57S designed by a Pforzheim University student, albiet one with a tweaked-out AMG V12 dragged away by 700 wild horses. No, it'll never be built. Hopefully, we'll see one in Frankfurt.
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Piloting Maybach's Batmobile, the Exelero Show Car
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 tiremaker Fulda to publicize the new Carat Exelero tire. Nonetheless, the car just happens to be perfect for the tires, which are rated to bring a 7000lb car safely to over 200mph and back. Still the Exelero is really a body-by-Stola Maybach 57S designed by a Pforzheim University student, albiet one with a tweaked-out AMG V12 dragged away by 700 wild horses. No, it'll never be built. Hopefully, we'll see one in Frankfurt.
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