S-Class [Official] Mercedes-Maybach Pullman (VV222)
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The Mercedes-Benz S-Class, formerly known as Sonderklasse, is a series of full-sized luxury sedans and coupés produced by Mercedes-Benz. The S-Class is the designation for top-of-the-line Mercedes-Benz models and was officially introduced in 1972 with the W116, and has remained in use ever since. The S-Class is the flagship vehicle for Mercedes-Benz, being positioned above the other Mercedes-Benz models.
Wolfgang
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Wolfgang
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nikola1984
Kraftkurve King
Best interior in the world.
Wolfgang
Kraftwagen König
Privat Car visited Brabus to ensure manufacturing quality and ordered four Mercedes-Maybach S 600 Pullmans, two in baltic black and two in diamond white, including one with RHD. 
http://www.mercedes-fans.de/magazin...-600-pullman-bereichern-die-nobelflotte.10349
http://www.mercedes-fans.de/magazin...-600-pullman-bereichern-die-nobelflotte.10349
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pullman haven't seen any yet , but the normal s400 , s500, s600 maybach are really common given they sell for a very reasonable price compared to the old maybach
Wolfgang
Kraftwagen König
Reminder: Mercedes Makes A Car With Button Back Seats In It
Photos credit: Mercedes-Benz
Find yourself swimming in pools of money? Concerned about the vast, seething magnitude of your bank account, but don’t like the swoops and sweeps of the leather stitching in modern cars? Don’t worry, Mercedes still makes a car with a button back sofa in it.
The image above comes from the Mercedes-Maybach S600 Pullman, which also comes complete with leather pillows (I know, I know, that’s redundant, all pillows are made out of leather), electronically extending ottomans built in to the seats and some tasteful curtains.
But it’s the button back thrones, a mere $1,000 option, that are really just perfect. Technically, they’re available in the regular Mercedes S-Class, too, though I don’t know why you’d bother. They fit ever so perfectly in the Maybach and the Maybach Pullman. Button back seats mean old money and class, and if you don’t believe me just look at the interior of a 1912 Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost Alpine Eagle Portholme Torpedo, which you know is just ace because it has a name like Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost Alpine Eagle Portholme Torpedo:
Photo credit: a Flickr user claiming to be James Bond
Will Rolls-Royce recreate that interior in a brand-new Phantom if you pay them enough money? Probably. Do they advertise it? No.
Only Mercedes seems to be doing that.
Anyways, you can now gaze upon the second-best feature in a Mercedes-Maybach S600 Pullman, which is the view going the other way:
Yes, those are screens. In the rear-facing seats. The bottom of the rear-facing seats. The bottom of the rear-facing fold-down jump seats which ARE ALSO BUTTON BACKED. And then there’s a television in between the rear-facing button-back fold-down jump seats because why the hell not, you spent over $200,000 on a car and by golly you deserve it.
Here’s the outside of the car, peasants:
Not like it’s even important.
http://jalopnik.com/reminder-mercedes-makes-a-car-with-button-back-seats-i-1782838028
Photos credit: Mercedes-Benz
Find yourself swimming in pools of money? Concerned about the vast, seething magnitude of your bank account, but don’t like the swoops and sweeps of the leather stitching in modern cars? Don’t worry, Mercedes still makes a car with a button back sofa in it.
The image above comes from the Mercedes-Maybach S600 Pullman, which also comes complete with leather pillows (I know, I know, that’s redundant, all pillows are made out of leather), electronically extending ottomans built in to the seats and some tasteful curtains.
But it’s the button back thrones, a mere $1,000 option, that are really just perfect. Technically, they’re available in the regular Mercedes S-Class, too, though I don’t know why you’d bother. They fit ever so perfectly in the Maybach and the Maybach Pullman. Button back seats mean old money and class, and if you don’t believe me just look at the interior of a 1912 Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost Alpine Eagle Portholme Torpedo, which you know is just ace because it has a name like Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost Alpine Eagle Portholme Torpedo:
Will Rolls-Royce recreate that interior in a brand-new Phantom if you pay them enough money? Probably. Do they advertise it? No.
Only Mercedes seems to be doing that.
Anyways, you can now gaze upon the second-best feature in a Mercedes-Maybach S600 Pullman, which is the view going the other way:
Yes, those are screens. In the rear-facing seats. The bottom of the rear-facing seats. The bottom of the rear-facing fold-down jump seats which ARE ALSO BUTTON BACKED. And then there’s a television in between the rear-facing button-back fold-down jump seats because why the hell not, you spent over $200,000 on a car and by golly you deserve it.
Here’s the outside of the car, peasants:
Not like it’s even important.
http://jalopnik.com/reminder-mercedes-makes-a-car-with-button-back-seats-i-1782838028
Wolfgang
Kraftwagen König
First Mercedes-Maybach S600 Pullman Arrives In China
http://www.carnewschina.com/2016/06/23/first-mercedes-maybach-s600-pullman-arrives-in-china/
Wolfgang
Kraftwagen König
Mercedes-Maybach Pullman tested: we ride in the ultimate limo
► We ride in Mercedes-Maybach Pullman
► A staggering 6.5m-long leviathan, with a 1.35m door!
► Armoured version celebrates 50 years of protection
What do Elvis Presley, Pol Pot and the Pope have in common? The Mercedes-Benz Pullman. For 52 years, this six-seat state limousine has been the Ford Galaxy of the 0.001%. This year, the armoured version celebrates half a century of protecting dictators who met a grisly end anyway: Hussein, Gaddafi, Ceausescu. And now there’s a new one. This time badged the Mercedes-Maybach Pullman, it is the new patriarch of the S-class family and the new ride of choice for despots everywhere.
So far only two have been hand-made, and I’m being chauffeured around Dubai in one of them before it goes on display at the motor show here. Dubai is awash with Zondas and LaFerraris and P1s costing well in excess of the Pullman’s £350,000 base price, but our car still attracts huge attention. People seem to know that it is more than just a stretched S-class. ‘In the Gulf, around 70% of Pullman customers are royal,’ explains Markus Rubenbauer, Mercedes’ head of Pullman and armoured cars. The locals do little to disguise their confusion at finding a solid German engineer and an impoverished Irish journalist in the back seats, rather than the aquiline features of their hereditary Emir, Sheikh Mohammed. I motor the curtains closed to save disappointment.
The new Pullman was first revealed at the 2015 Geneva motor show. On the very first day of the show, while I was reporting on the unveiling of another Korean econobox, some plutocrat was on the Mercedes stand, ordering three Pullmans from Rubenbauer to ensure that he got his first. Those cars will be delivered early in 2016. Markus won’t say how many Pullmans will be built each year: just that they’re sold out until 2017 and that Mercedes ‘wants the cars in the hands of the right people’. I’m not sure that Robert Mugabe and Idi Amin constitute ‘the right people’. Mercedes made only 302 examples of the original 600 Pullman over 17 years.
Rubenbauer is predictably discreet about who the customers are, but he confirms that they include heads of state, and that most put tyrannising aside for a moment to personally choose at least the colour and trim of their new official ride. In fact, this new Pullman was designed with the input of the Security Council set. The office of German Chancellor Angela Merkel wrote to Mercedes thanking it for the loan of the last-generation Pullman for state duties (buying one would be extravagant) but asked if the door could be made even longer. Protocol demands that heads of state enter the car first; the problem was that their interpreters then had to shuffle past them like middle-seat latecomers at the movies in order to get into the rear-facing seats. You cannot show your backside to a president or a king. A more fitting solution was required.
The answer is the new Pullman’s colossal 1.35-metre-long rear door. It is almost long enough to take late diminutive Pullman fan and keen anti-imperialist Kim Jong-Il if you inserted him horizontally. It’s made possible by the fact that this is not a standard Maybach that has been cut in two and stretched. The Pullman was in the S-class product plan from the start, and its 6.5m-long body-in-white is pressed out like any of the S-class’s five other body styles. This also allows the designers to ensure the Pullman doesn’t look whale-like despite its extra 1.4 metres in length over a standard-wheelbase S-class, and its ten extra centimetres in height. The gently rising roofline is graceful, and two deep side-strakes help break up the car’s visual mass.
So you’ve overthrown the old guy, installed yourself as President for Life, pinned a row of medals to your chest and bought a Pullman. How’s the ownership experience? That door is predictably heavy, but Mercedes’ research shows that in 90% of ‘door-opening events’, someone other than the rear-seat occupants will be doing the work. Should revolutionaries shoot your footman, a motor will do the job instead.
Once through the door you sit back behind the door opening, looking out partly through the quarter light. Markus calls the rear cabin a ‘plastic-free zone’: everything, including that vast prairie of headlining is made of leather, wood or metal. Having had an accident with the maple syrup at breakfast, I washed my hands before I got in. The carpets can be soft, inch-deep lambswool rugs which engulf your shoes because the occupants will never step in dogshit or chewing gum.
There are gadgets to preserve your privacy, such as the powered curtains on all windows, and the glass divider which slides up to shut out the driver and turns opaque at the touch of a button so he can’t see you weep at the futility of it all. You can still instruct him via the intercom (you know your car is large when it requires its own internal communications system).
Otherwise the cabin is remarkably sober and gadgets are limited. The main seats recline, of course, and have pop-out calf supports. There’s a fridge and beautifully-engineered fold-out tables in the divider. There are small screens in the base of each rear-facing seat, visible when they’re folded up, and an 18.5-inch flatscreen which motors up from the driver partition. The hallmark Maybach rear-cabin dials for speed, time and temperature are mounted in the roof, as are two of the 24 Burmester speakers.
There are surprisingly few options. Rubenbauer says the Pullman has been kept deliberately simple to order because the customers are kind of busy. For £10,000 you can upgrade the already insanely good audio system to ‘high-end 3D’ status. And for another £7000, Burmester will run some speakers in on the bench, listen to how their tone changes as they’re broken in, and fit your car with the speakers that best match each other and the type of music you most like to listen to. The result is easily the best audio I have ever heard in a car, or ever will. You can also splash £18,000 on a panoramic sunroof, and the base price of the car again on armouring. Needing armour is the sign that you’ve really made it: Hugh Hefner didn’t need to armour his, but you can bet Vladimir Putin does.
I didn’t drive the Pullman. It seemed about as relevant as President Obama wondering what Air Force One is like to fly. I assume that the chauffeur gets the same tech-fest that marks all-new S-classes, but does Lord Grantham care if Mrs Patmore’s Aga has a temperature gauge? Far more important is how it feels in the back. The answer? Eerie and quite un-car-like, both in the utter sense of isolation it offers (especially with the curtains closed and the partition screen opaque – then it feels like a small private jet) and in the way it moves.
That vast wheelbase means the Pullman pitches far less over speed humps, and you can see the front end turning long before you start to pivot at the back. Motoring journalists like to talk about the ‘distant thrum’ of a refined, multi-cylindric engine, but in this case the 523bhp, twin-turbo 6.0-litre V12 really is a long way away. Pleasingly, it’s not Tesla-silent, but any vibration dissipates long before it reaches your royal backside.
But the Pullman’s greatest and defining features are those rear-facing ‘interpreter’s’ seats. That’s how Mercedes describes them, but you can put anyone you like in there: your bodyguards, two of your concubines, your nuclear-code-carrier, your psychotic brother-in-law whom you made chief of your secret police. I put Markus in there and found that we both had plenty of legroom, although the guy in the dicky-seat would be well-advised to keep his feet tucked in. I tried them too, just to experience the oddness of travelling backwards in a normal-height car. They’re a little firm. Their occupants would be wise not to complain.
It saves getting the Gulfstream out…
Khalid al Marzooqi is one of Dubai’s top Mercedes salesmen. I took him for a ride in the new Pullman to get his views on what his fellow Emiratis would make of it. Despite Dubai’s huge wealth, he expects only three or four to make their way here, mainly for the ruling al-Maktoum family. His ‘ordinary’ customers buy more G-wagons than any other model, followed by the S-class and C-class.
Most customers just want a car with every option, even if they’ll never use them, and they want their cars immediately – few want to order something bespoke and have to wait for it. Limousines are used for short chauffeur-driven trips between home, office and airport, but also for longer trips along the Arabian Gulf coast between the Emirates if it’s quicker than firing up the chopper or the jet.
Source: CAR Magazine, UK
► We ride in Mercedes-Maybach Pullman
► A staggering 6.5m-long leviathan, with a 1.35m door!
► Armoured version celebrates 50 years of protection
What do Elvis Presley, Pol Pot and the Pope have in common? The Mercedes-Benz Pullman. For 52 years, this six-seat state limousine has been the Ford Galaxy of the 0.001%. This year, the armoured version celebrates half a century of protecting dictators who met a grisly end anyway: Hussein, Gaddafi, Ceausescu. And now there’s a new one. This time badged the Mercedes-Maybach Pullman, it is the new patriarch of the S-class family and the new ride of choice for despots everywhere.
So far only two have been hand-made, and I’m being chauffeured around Dubai in one of them before it goes on display at the motor show here. Dubai is awash with Zondas and LaFerraris and P1s costing well in excess of the Pullman’s £350,000 base price, but our car still attracts huge attention. People seem to know that it is more than just a stretched S-class. ‘In the Gulf, around 70% of Pullman customers are royal,’ explains Markus Rubenbauer, Mercedes’ head of Pullman and armoured cars. The locals do little to disguise their confusion at finding a solid German engineer and an impoverished Irish journalist in the back seats, rather than the aquiline features of their hereditary Emir, Sheikh Mohammed. I motor the curtains closed to save disappointment.
The new Pullman was first revealed at the 2015 Geneva motor show. On the very first day of the show, while I was reporting on the unveiling of another Korean econobox, some plutocrat was on the Mercedes stand, ordering three Pullmans from Rubenbauer to ensure that he got his first. Those cars will be delivered early in 2016. Markus won’t say how many Pullmans will be built each year: just that they’re sold out until 2017 and that Mercedes ‘wants the cars in the hands of the right people’. I’m not sure that Robert Mugabe and Idi Amin constitute ‘the right people’. Mercedes made only 302 examples of the original 600 Pullman over 17 years.
Rubenbauer is predictably discreet about who the customers are, but he confirms that they include heads of state, and that most put tyrannising aside for a moment to personally choose at least the colour and trim of their new official ride. In fact, this new Pullman was designed with the input of the Security Council set. The office of German Chancellor Angela Merkel wrote to Mercedes thanking it for the loan of the last-generation Pullman for state duties (buying one would be extravagant) but asked if the door could be made even longer. Protocol demands that heads of state enter the car first; the problem was that their interpreters then had to shuffle past them like middle-seat latecomers at the movies in order to get into the rear-facing seats. You cannot show your backside to a president or a king. A more fitting solution was required.
The answer is the new Pullman’s colossal 1.35-metre-long rear door. It is almost long enough to take late diminutive Pullman fan and keen anti-imperialist Kim Jong-Il if you inserted him horizontally. It’s made possible by the fact that this is not a standard Maybach that has been cut in two and stretched. The Pullman was in the S-class product plan from the start, and its 6.5m-long body-in-white is pressed out like any of the S-class’s five other body styles. This also allows the designers to ensure the Pullman doesn’t look whale-like despite its extra 1.4 metres in length over a standard-wheelbase S-class, and its ten extra centimetres in height. The gently rising roofline is graceful, and two deep side-strakes help break up the car’s visual mass.
So you’ve overthrown the old guy, installed yourself as President for Life, pinned a row of medals to your chest and bought a Pullman. How’s the ownership experience? That door is predictably heavy, but Mercedes’ research shows that in 90% of ‘door-opening events’, someone other than the rear-seat occupants will be doing the work. Should revolutionaries shoot your footman, a motor will do the job instead.
Once through the door you sit back behind the door opening, looking out partly through the quarter light. Markus calls the rear cabin a ‘plastic-free zone’: everything, including that vast prairie of headlining is made of leather, wood or metal. Having had an accident with the maple syrup at breakfast, I washed my hands before I got in. The carpets can be soft, inch-deep lambswool rugs which engulf your shoes because the occupants will never step in dogshit or chewing gum.
There are gadgets to preserve your privacy, such as the powered curtains on all windows, and the glass divider which slides up to shut out the driver and turns opaque at the touch of a button so he can’t see you weep at the futility of it all. You can still instruct him via the intercom (you know your car is large when it requires its own internal communications system).
Otherwise the cabin is remarkably sober and gadgets are limited. The main seats recline, of course, and have pop-out calf supports. There’s a fridge and beautifully-engineered fold-out tables in the divider. There are small screens in the base of each rear-facing seat, visible when they’re folded up, and an 18.5-inch flatscreen which motors up from the driver partition. The hallmark Maybach rear-cabin dials for speed, time and temperature are mounted in the roof, as are two of the 24 Burmester speakers.
There are surprisingly few options. Rubenbauer says the Pullman has been kept deliberately simple to order because the customers are kind of busy. For £10,000 you can upgrade the already insanely good audio system to ‘high-end 3D’ status. And for another £7000, Burmester will run some speakers in on the bench, listen to how their tone changes as they’re broken in, and fit your car with the speakers that best match each other and the type of music you most like to listen to. The result is easily the best audio I have ever heard in a car, or ever will. You can also splash £18,000 on a panoramic sunroof, and the base price of the car again on armouring. Needing armour is the sign that you’ve really made it: Hugh Hefner didn’t need to armour his, but you can bet Vladimir Putin does.
I didn’t drive the Pullman. It seemed about as relevant as President Obama wondering what Air Force One is like to fly. I assume that the chauffeur gets the same tech-fest that marks all-new S-classes, but does Lord Grantham care if Mrs Patmore’s Aga has a temperature gauge? Far more important is how it feels in the back. The answer? Eerie and quite un-car-like, both in the utter sense of isolation it offers (especially with the curtains closed and the partition screen opaque – then it feels like a small private jet) and in the way it moves.
That vast wheelbase means the Pullman pitches far less over speed humps, and you can see the front end turning long before you start to pivot at the back. Motoring journalists like to talk about the ‘distant thrum’ of a refined, multi-cylindric engine, but in this case the 523bhp, twin-turbo 6.0-litre V12 really is a long way away. Pleasingly, it’s not Tesla-silent, but any vibration dissipates long before it reaches your royal backside.
But the Pullman’s greatest and defining features are those rear-facing ‘interpreter’s’ seats. That’s how Mercedes describes them, but you can put anyone you like in there: your bodyguards, two of your concubines, your nuclear-code-carrier, your psychotic brother-in-law whom you made chief of your secret police. I put Markus in there and found that we both had plenty of legroom, although the guy in the dicky-seat would be well-advised to keep his feet tucked in. I tried them too, just to experience the oddness of travelling backwards in a normal-height car. They’re a little firm. Their occupants would be wise not to complain.
It saves getting the Gulfstream out…
Khalid al Marzooqi is one of Dubai’s top Mercedes salesmen. I took him for a ride in the new Pullman to get his views on what his fellow Emiratis would make of it. Despite Dubai’s huge wealth, he expects only three or four to make their way here, mainly for the ruling al-Maktoum family. His ‘ordinary’ customers buy more G-wagons than any other model, followed by the S-class and C-class.
Most customers just want a car with every option, even if they’ll never use them, and they want their cars immediately – few want to order something bespoke and have to wait for it. Limousines are used for short chauffeur-driven trips between home, office and airport, but also for longer trips along the Arabian Gulf coast between the Emirates if it’s quicker than firing up the chopper or the jet.
Source: CAR Magazine, UK
Wolfgang
Kraftwagen König
Schwarz Gruppe Design from Stuttgart created the design of the extra-large and particularly exquisite "Book of Inspiration" for the Mercedes-Maybach S 600 Pullman. The book is an homage to the fifth generation of the ultra-long prestige saloon car for highest standards and impressive presence.
Source: Daimler
hannaz
Aerodynamic Artisan
Mercedes-Maybach S600 Pullman Guard is 5.6 tons of bulletproof limo
Mercedes-Benz announced the armored version of the Maybach S600 Pullman, called the Guard, at the same time as the regular version of the gargantuan limousine at the 2015 Geneva Motor Show. Now, the bullet-resistant behemoth will make a public debut at the Paris Motor Show at the end of the month. However, heads of state, royalty, and dictators won’t be able to take delivery of one until the second half of 2017. They’ll probably need that time to get the necessary funds together because this vault on wheels will cost around 1.4 million euros ($1.56 million) in Germany, including the country’s 19 percent VAT. For comparison, a Pullman without armor will cost 500,000 euros ($558,000).
The Maybach S600 Pullman Guard offers complete VR9 bullet resistance for the glass and body. This means the sedan can shrug off rounds from an assault rifle. The model also has a Directive ERV 2010 blast rating that means 33 pounds (15 kilograms) of TNT can safely explode within 6.5 feet (2 meters) of this beast.
As you might expect, so much armor isn’t very light, and the Pullman Guard tips the scales at 11,200 pounds (5.1 metric tons). There’s so much protection in the doors that Maybach adds electric motors to assist people operating them. The additions include steel panels in the cavities between the body structure and outer metal. The company also reinforces the floor to protect from blasts.
While these upgrades mean the S600 Pullman Guard could handle driving through a war zone, it looks the almost identical to the non-armored variant. The additional protection has no affect on the interior dimensions, too. Power still comes from a biturbo 6.0-liter V12 with 523 horsepower (390 kilowatts) and 612 pound-feet (830 Newton-meters).
The truly paranoid Mercedes customer actually might want to choose the smaller (but still plenty large) standard Maybach S600 Guard. Introduced earlier this year, it’s the only passenger car in the world to offer VR10 ballistic protection, which gives the sedan the extra ability to take hardened-steel rounds from an assault rival. The model also has the same level of explosion protection as the Pullman Guard. Buyers save quite a bit too because Maybach S600 Guard starts at 470,000 euros ($524,000) in Germany.
Source: http://www.germancarforum.com/threads/2016-mercedes-maybach-pullman.52906/page-11
Mercedes-Benz announced the armored version of the Maybach S600 Pullman, called the Guard, at the same time as the regular version of the gargantuan limousine at the 2015 Geneva Motor Show. Now, the bullet-resistant behemoth will make a public debut at the Paris Motor Show at the end of the month. However, heads of state, royalty, and dictators won’t be able to take delivery of one until the second half of 2017. They’ll probably need that time to get the necessary funds together because this vault on wheels will cost around 1.4 million euros ($1.56 million) in Germany, including the country’s 19 percent VAT. For comparison, a Pullman without armor will cost 500,000 euros ($558,000).
The Maybach S600 Pullman Guard offers complete VR9 bullet resistance for the glass and body. This means the sedan can shrug off rounds from an assault rifle. The model also has a Directive ERV 2010 blast rating that means 33 pounds (15 kilograms) of TNT can safely explode within 6.5 feet (2 meters) of this beast.
As you might expect, so much armor isn’t very light, and the Pullman Guard tips the scales at 11,200 pounds (5.1 metric tons). There’s so much protection in the doors that Maybach adds electric motors to assist people operating them. The additions include steel panels in the cavities between the body structure and outer metal. The company also reinforces the floor to protect from blasts.
While these upgrades mean the S600 Pullman Guard could handle driving through a war zone, it looks the almost identical to the non-armored variant. The additional protection has no affect on the interior dimensions, too. Power still comes from a biturbo 6.0-liter V12 with 523 horsepower (390 kilowatts) and 612 pound-feet (830 Newton-meters).
The truly paranoid Mercedes customer actually might want to choose the smaller (but still plenty large) standard Maybach S600 Guard. Introduced earlier this year, it’s the only passenger car in the world to offer VR10 ballistic protection, which gives the sedan the extra ability to take hardened-steel rounds from an assault rival. The model also has the same level of explosion protection as the Pullman Guard. Buyers save quite a bit too because Maybach S600 Guard starts at 470,000 euros ($524,000) in Germany.
Source: http://www.germancarforum.com/threads/2016-mercedes-maybach-pullman.52906/page-11
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