Musings about the Maybach

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed)
Jan 22nd 2005 at 7:28PM

It's an old story (Autoblog covered it back in October) but people keep speculating on the lackluster sales of super-luxury cars like the Maybach and the Rolls-Royce Phantom. This latest, from a paper in Connecticut, speaks of a general downturn in the market caused the the stockmarket woes of the past few years. The article doesn't mention the success of the Bentley Continental GT. As long as there are those with the money for it, these megacars will have no problem finding a home. Lee Bailey, a Maybach owner quoted in the article, speaks to the lure of the car. "I can't deny the appeal of exclusivity."

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Robert Farago Dec 18th 2005 6:02PM

While the Maybach struggles to find buyers, Rolls Royce reports that they've sold all 400 Phantoms allotted to the US market of '04-- and then some.

Tim P Dec 18th 2005 6:02PM

The cars over $200,000 is what are having problems. I think it is people look at a car like the Bentley GT and see that they could buy that and a Porsche GT3 for the same price as the Maybach.

denis Dec 18th 2005 6:02PM

i had same idea as TIM P, im often in germany for my job and some my biggest customers have limousine cars as maybach (its german) and they often answer to that question in telling me that its sure that adding cost of a maybach plus a porshe 911 cost lot in regards of having a great british bentley mulsanne or continental (typical snoobish british) plus that 911 for the price of the maybach, but they are germans and have to think german. in my opinion im a maurician islander i adore driving a bentley (maybe its because mauritius is old colony), and porshe isnt my cup of tea, but one must admit that being in a maybach is pure dream but so technocratic dream, different as being in a rolls or a bentley (rolls is aristocratic and bentley for those new rich isnt it?)