When Mercedes first resurrected Maybach, there was some curiosity but it surely finally it fell flat. Now, the automaker appears to have lastly found out what to do with the posh sub-brand.

The Mercedes-Maybach GLS 600 is the right distillation of what the model is getting proper – all the way down to the identify, which appears intentionally chosen to suggest to clients that as AMG is to efficiency, Maybach is to consolation.

Based mostly on the GLS, Maybach turns the large SUV right into a full-on first-class luxurious affair. Changing the second and third rows of seating with two large recliners, it’s clear that Maybach expects house owners of this automobile to have a chauffeur.

On this video, Doug DeMuro goes over all of the enjoyable quirks and options of the automotive, taking us via the wealth of Maybach logos, its richness in pillows, and the bling design accents. He highlights the reclining, massaging seats, the champagne fridge, and the fold-out trays permitting house owners to do necessary enterprise issues, amongst different options.

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It’s a great automobile for DeMuro’s style of video, however for a automotive all about being pushed in, it’s not till he will get behind the wheel that all of it comes collectively.

Together with the entire options, while you drive down the highway, there’s a vault-like high quality shutting the surface world out that DeMuro says is likely one of the most spectacular elements of the automotive. Certainly, tipping the scales at 6,140 lbs, it weighs practically 400 lbs greater than a GLS 450 and costs significantly more, too.

A few of that’s all the way down to this utilizing a 4.0-liter V8 able to producing 550 hp (the GLS 450 uses a V6), however a few of that’s clearly all the way down to added insulation (and possibly the fridge, too).

Ultimately, it makes for a automobile that’s near with the ability to compete with the likes of the Bentley Bentayga and the Rolls-Royce Cullinan. Based on DeMuro, it will possibly’t fairly sustain, however its sub-$200,000 price ticket implies that it’s a whole lot.