None of this applies, though, if you're shopping for a Maybach, DaimlerChrysler's new superluxury nameplate.
It produces cars and trucks under brands such as Mercedes-Benz, Smart, Maybach, and Freightliner.
Unlike the Phantom, the Maybach 57S offers no design allusions to a bygone era of luxury.
Maybach (pronounced MY-bock) marked a revival of a brand that first came to life in 1909.
Not surprisingly, he opted for every feature for his chauffeur-driven Maybach, including the retractable barrier with drapes.
Because Maybach's target buyer is a business mogul, commissioning sessions typically take place after business hours, by appointment.
The last I spent any real time in a Maybach was at the 2003 New York Auto Show.
No complaint about that anymore, the Maybach is finally a car that even Shaq will find roomy enough.
Next week Maybach Music and Warner Brothers will release Ambition, the second official album from rapper Wale.
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The decision follows almost a decade of trying to make Maybach a profitable rival to Rolls Royce and Bentley.
While the 57 is Maybach's shorter model, it's still a very big car.
We have superluxury cars, like Daimler's Maybach and soon the new Bentleys (from VW) and the new Rolls-Royce (from BMW).
He is doing what he can to ensure his current projects will go the way of Moynat rather than Maybach.
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Most of Maybach's luxuries come as standard equipment, but the ones that don't have price tags to fit the occasion.
Maybach will be replaced by new and more luxurious models from the Mercedes brand, which is also made by Daimler.
Recently, Mercedes-Benz discontinued the Maybach, an ultra-luxury car that it introduced in an effort to compete with Rolls-Royce and Bentley.
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There are two possible chassis as well: a long Maybach 57 and a still-longer 62 (that's longer than 20 feet).
With the Maybach there's no leather to smell or door to make a thud--no car, in fact, at least for now.
Shortly after Jay Sean weaved his way into the party, a white Maybach sedan rolled up and the Williams brothers emerged.
Money and women and alliteration please him, as do luxury cars (his record label, Maybach Music, is named after a style of Mercedes).
The Maybach 62 was parked at the show and I borrowed its back seat to use as my office for a couple of hours.
Ultimately, the Maybach's charms, its size, its performance, its seemingly endless list of amenities, are measurable on the same scales used to measure other vehicles.
The biggest question: Who actually held the title to the Maybach?
The now-discontinued Maybach, which was once a powerhouse of automotive integrity?
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Though the Maybach doesn't officially go on sale until late this month, Lino Cascardi, the Maybach relationship manager at Benzel-Busch Motor Car Corp. in Englewood, N.
As with most business expenses and charitable donations, the Maybach in question can be used as a deduction, says Andrew Blackman of the firm Shapiro Lobel LLP.
To set the mood Cascardi shows a five-minute Maybach video with an original score by Hans Zimmer, composer of the music for Gladiator and The Lion King.
While Maybach says the 57 is for people who want to drive themselves, you can easily stretch out in the back of a 57 in loungelike comfort.
Daimler is said to have invested more than 1bn euros in the Maybach brand, which was revived nine years ago after more than 60 years out of production.
"It would not be sensible to develop a successor model for the current Maybach, " said chief executive Dieter Zetsche in an interview with German daily newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
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