Posts Tagged ‘Maybach’
Beijing Auto Show Live: Maybach 62 facelift
Published on April 23, 2010 by Tycho
It loox actually much ‘newer’ when one sees face to face, yesterday’s official pictures didn’t do it right. The grille is far bigger and impressive compared to the old car and the leds make it more aggressive. Benz hopes to sell a few of ‘m to the new rich in China before it kills the brand. But Benz doesn’t have too much faith in it, the new Maybach looked a bit sad in a small cabin in a corner of the stand, and no one mentioned the car during the Benz press conference.
Categories: Beijing Auto Show 2010, Mercedes Benz
Tags: Maybach
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Official: New Maybach 62 for the Beijing Auto Show
Published on April 22, 2010 by Tycho
Maybach will bring the ‘new’ 62 to the Beijing Auto Show that starts tomorrow. Looking at the quality these pictures leaked from a brochure, got you… Pics show the 62 on several locations around Beijing, photoshopped I guess but the car is real. Changes: a new front with a bigger blingbling grille and leds under the bumper.
Categories: Beijing Auto Show 2010, Mercedes Benz
Tags: 62, Maybach
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New Maybach Spied in China
Published on April 7, 2010 by Tycho
Maybach will debut the new facelifted Maybachs at the Beijing Auto Show later this month. Surprisingly a Maybach without much of a front was spied roadtesting right here in Beijing. Read more »
Categories: Mercedes Benz
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Benz will Not Sell Maybach to BYD
Published on April 1, 2010 by Tycho
“Maybach is an important part of Daimler’s product portfolio. There is no other decision”, so a Benz spokesman said to Reuters.
“It’s not true, it’s market speculation. We got calls from the media and we have checked with Chairman Wang”, so a BYD spokesman said to Reuters. Chairman Wang is Wang Chuanfu, BYD’s boss.
Rumors on a possible buy by BYD of Benzes Maybach brand surfaced earlier this week in the Chinese media and were taken to the outside world by websites as this one.
Can’t say we’re surprised, but an electric MayBYDbach would have been… well… yep!
Categories: BYD, Industry, Mercedes Benz
Tags: Maybach, take over
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BYD Interested in Maybach-brand???
Published on March 29, 2010 by Tycho
According to a report on one of China’s largest automotive websites, auto.sina.com, BYD has expressed interest to acquire the Maybach-brand from Mercedes Benz as the Germans will pull the plug in one or two years.
An unmaned BYD official told Sina.com that BYD was very interested in Maybach and would “launch the acquisition” as soon as Benz makes the final decision to quit.
Earlier this month MB and BYD announced a partnership to produce electric vehicles for the Chinese market, so the two are friends already. Still I don’t think Benz will ever consider to sell the Maybach-brand to anyone, let alone to a batterymaker turned carmaker from China.
Hard to say how serious BYD really is, but it is good to see the brand keeps dreaming…
Categories: BYD, Industry, Mercedes Benz
Tags: Maybach, take over
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Facelifted Maybach to Debut at Beijing Auto Show in April
Published on March 13, 2010 by Tycho
Maybach will reveal its very first facelift on the Beijing Autoshow at the end of April. Updates ain’t many and focussed on the front: a slightly bigger grille, new headlights and a more sporty lower air intake. And!, engines will now be Euro V compliant. Power output will remain as it is. The new design loox clean but I know one policeman won’t be happy with it.
Categories: Beijing Auto Show 2010
Tags: Maybach
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Spotted: Maybach 62S in my street
Published on March 6, 2010 by Tycho
Illegally parked on a bicycle lane in my street, this very impressive monster of a machine, a Maybach 62S. It is so much bigger than it loox on photo’s, a full 6.2 meters long and 2 wide. Still, the Chinese didn’t really notice, when a Lambo is parked somewhere thousands get their camera phones out. The Maybach just ain’t striking enough.
Categories: Spotted in China
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