<![CDATA[Jalopnik: maybach landaulet]]> http://tags.jalopnik.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/jalopnik.com.png <![CDATA[Jalopnik: maybach landaulet]]> http://jalopnik.com/tag/maybachlandaulet http://jalopnik.com/tag/maybachlandaulet <![CDATA[Maybach 62S Landaulet: Buy It Now On EBay For Just $2.2 Million]]> Yes, the Maybach 62S Landaulet is obnoxiously luxurious. With that rollback canvas roof, it offers conspicuous consumption on a Citigroup-like level, but $2.2 million as a "Buy it now" eBay price is a bit steep.

Okay, it is the loaded model, complete with the twin turbo V12 and every option on the list, along with what's an apparently limited black on white color combination. Oh sorry, that's Baltic Black over Aspen White. We're seriously doubting anyone will step up and make a bid anywhere close to the the asking price, if not for the economy then for the fact that the seller can't take a decent picture of the dang car. Yes, it's the most luxurious car in the world right now, but with the look of a gussied up Mercedes S-class, it's a hard sell over something like, say, an actual 1934 Maybach DS 8 Zeppelin Cabriolet. But who are we to judge. [eBay listing]

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<![CDATA[Maybach 62 Landaulet Goes Into Production Because We Said It Wouldn't]]> There's a great moment in All The President's Men (and repeated in the autobiography A Good Life) where Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee explains how he was the reason for J. Edgar Hoover not getting canned by LBJ:

Once when I was reporting, Lyndon Johnson's top guy gave me the word they were looking for a successor to J. Edgar Hoover. I wrote it and the day it appeared Johnson called a press conference and appointed Hoover head of the FBI for life... And when he was done, he turned to his top guy and the President said, "Call Ben Bradlee and tell him fuck you."
What does this have to do with the Maybach 62 Landaulet going into production? Everything.

After seeing the Maybach 62 Landaulet in person at the Detroit Auto Show, we claimed it was one of the five concepts that wouldn't see production. Clearly, Maybach wasn't going to have its product line dictated to it by Jalopnik, so now the ridiculous convertible limo is going to be made. We're still waiting for Dr. Z to tell Bill Moyers to "Call Mike Spinelli and tell him Fuck You."
[AutoBlog via Motor Authority]

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