Maybach 62 limo pictures from Amelia Island Councours

The show was nearly a month ago and I still have several thousand (damn modern technology and cheap flash cards) pictures to categorize, so here is only the first installment, pictures o fthe Maybach 62 limo. It really does make all other super luxury cars look really really stupid.

No, that's not me in any of the photos, which were taken by several people.

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Richard Sexton
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snipped-for-privacy@vrx.news (Richard Sexton) haute in die Tasten:

It definitely is a matter of taste, but having inspected one closely at the Maybach showroom in Munich (including the interior), I must say that I am not at all amazed by that car. If I had to choose between this car and a new Rolls Royce, I'd probably choose the Rolls instead (or a S600L and a SL55AMG Kompressor, both fully loaded). Hint: You have to see the new Rolls in real life to know what I am talking about. Pictures do not tell the whole story.

Frank

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Alex

You might like to take a look at a program that might make your pic's easier for you to sort thru. Easier than opening each one in a paint prog anyway. Catagorising them is still a manual operation though.

Batch Thumbs is one I use its FREE and you can get it from

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sounding name, but I think its the guys name. Open it up, select the images you want, )usually all) follow the screens and in a few seconds you have web pages made with thumbnails of all the pics, linked to a large image, and java buttons to go from page to page of thumbnails.

You get some options, play with them lots of things you can change from how big the thumbnails are, how many per page, quality of the thumbnails, the title for the page, background colours and what to call the filename.

Just use a couple of dozen images first, till you get the feel of it and you come up with someth> The show was nearly a month ago and I still have several

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Alex

All the new Rolls, Bently, Lambo, and God knows what else was there. Nobody seemd to care, the Maybach drew all the attention.

I reall don't like the look of the new Rolls at all. It looks very silly.

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Richard Sexton

I saw a 57 at this year's Stanford Concours d'Elegance, and another in the showroom of my local Mercedes dealership. It's certainly impressive, but like the 747, I find it more imposing than beautiful. The one at the dealership was stickered at $320,600.00.

I'll keep an open mind until I do. Based on the pictures I've seen in the car magazines, I'm not impressed; it strikes me as slab-sided and -fronted, like a refrigerator on wheels. It reminds me of the vehicle in the 1977 horror flick "The Car":

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Personally, if I were going to choose a sedan in that rare- fied price range, I'd opt for a Bentley Arnage. A comfy, high seating position, 5,700 lbs. of road-hugging weight, all the power in the world, and an interior that resembles a London gentlemen's club -- not to mention a touch of dash that no Rolls or Maybach can match. What's not to like?

Geoff

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Geoff Miller

To me the new Rolls looks like what a RR would look like if designed by Bruce McCall.

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YMMV, IMHO, &c, &c.

John M. '94 E320. Not exactly sleek, either

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John Mauel

Excellent! That's the best description of that monstrosity I've seen yet.

speaking of Bruce McCall, I still have a copy of that issue of NatLamp from the Seventies with the spread about the 1958 Bulgemobile.

Geoff

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Geoff Miller

In news: snipped-for-privacy@T-FCN.Net, Richard Sexton decided to enlighten our sheltered souls with a rant as follows

agreed

I saw a new Rolls last weekend prowling the streets of Liverpool, and I have to say I thought it looked rather good, in a mean kind of way. Doesn't have the patrician splendour of the old Turbo R, the new one somehow seems more Al Capone style, like it'd slap you down if you strayed into it's lane. Bit like the S classes used to be.

The Maybach, on the other hand, looks bloody awful. Are you sure they weren't looking at it and thinking "Why??????"

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Pete M

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