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Aston Maybach Martin

Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Mercedes Maybach is the second thing which entered our life after Google. I still remember the time when I first saw the Maybach concept in newspaper on 1997. At those times, Google was a concept inside their founders’ minds, basically they started from the same point. They became popular in year 2000, and Google increased its popularity more than Paris Hilton. However Maybach lost and lost and lost each year. Whatever Mercedes did to save Maybach did not work.

Daimler never published exact number of Maybachs sold but the sales were terrible. In UK, it was only two digits while the Rolls Royce achieved three digit sales at the same. There are lots of reasons for this failure. Maybach had lots of problems, it was based on a previous S Class and interior was a posh interpretation of the same old car. Maybach was packed with lots of technology even though the consumers were not aware of them. Customers did not buy these segment cars for their technology, they buy it for their prestige and Mercedes slightly missed this point! Meanwhile, Rolls Royce and Bentley increased their sales and rumours about Maybach emerged! Mercedes will stop producing Maybach! Actually it was very reasonable, sales were terrible and nearly pointless to introduce a new model.

However Mercedes did not give up and end up with a great idea. Make a deal with Aston Martin, this deal includes; Mercedes shares its engine technology with Aston Martin and Aston Martin designs the new Maybach. I think this is one of the best decision ever made for Maybach. Aston Martin is excellent on designing cars and it is proofed by the solid sales performance. So, Aston Martin based design for Maybach is a great idea but it would make the Maybach’s brand identity more complicated! This car is designed by Aston Martin and technology made by Mercedes. It sounds like Hugo Boss tie is painted by Paul Smith !

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Maybach Coupe

Monday, October 4, 2010

I can clearly remember the day when I first saw the Maybach. It was 2004 and it was unforgettable moment for me. However Maybach’s future was not that exciting, after Rolls Royce Phantom’s appearance Maybach lost its market share suddenly. It was excellent car with lack of passion. Honestly, Maybach offers more sophisticated technologies than Rolls Royce but Maybach is mainly based on old Mercedes S Class! Especially the interior is exactly an old Mercedes S Class.

Therefore it did not take long time to release the reality of Maybach by consumers and they moved to Rolls Royce. What they have done is the right thing to do. When you have chance to buy a Rolls Royce, you should not focus on Maybach. Many people thought like this and Maybach sales come close to zero. There are still rumours about Maybach’s future and it is a huge question mark. As Rolls Royce getting better and better, Maybach is getting worse and worse.

Recently Mercedes focused on Chinese market to sell excess Maybachs and that’s a very good idea. At least one percentage of China decides to buy a Maybach, Mercedes can clear out the whole warehouse.

But there is good news for Maybach a coupe is coming! Yes, Maybach coupe will be produced but not from Mercedes. Companies called Xenatec will be producing Maybach coupe cars and selling from € 675 000! Price is a bit high but Maybach couple looks amazing. Just forget the boring looking stretched limo, this is something totally different. It is real substitute for Bentley Continental, Rolls Royce Drophead Coupe! It looks amazing, I think Mercedes should have done it earlier.

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Maybach The 8 Million dollar Cars Wallpapers

Monday, September 6, 2010

Maybach is a German luxury car manufacturer. It was founded in 1909 by Wilhelm Maybach with his son Karl Maybach as director. The company was originally a subsidiary of Luftschiffbau Zeppelin GmbH and was itself known as "Luftfahrzeug-Motorenbau GmbH" (literally "Aircraft Engine Building Company") until 1918. Today, the brand is owned by Daimler AG and based in Stuttgart.maybach 8 million dollar

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Maybach reincarnation with the help of eye-glasses

Tuesday, August 17, 2010

In many different thoughts people believe on reincarnation. They believe they will born again in a different life. Honestly I don’t know very much in this issue. But I do know that Mercedes also believes this :)

And in 2002 they re-introduced the Maybach brand, sorry I used totally wrong sentence structure. Mercedes reincarnated the Maybach in 2002. And they failed! For people who has no idea on Maybach I would like to explain briefly.

Maybach is a type of Mercedes S Class (1999-2006) which is fat, ridiculously expensive and offers everything technology. Actually you need to have a course to understand how to use all these technologies effectively. However, Maybach started to lose market share and could not compete with Rolls Royce. And this was expected to happen.

But Mercedes did not give the fight like a gladiator and introduced something else which was never thought my Rolls Royce! Maybach eyewear collection. I can understand a reason to buy Maybach, despite being lack of soul, it offers very exquisite quality of comfort for the passengers.

But who is going to buy a eye-glass with huge Maybach logos? This product is much more impossible to be sold than the car. Why do you think place a car in front of your eyes! Were there any demand from Maybach customers. Yes, we want to put a Maybach in front our eyes and we are waiting for this very long time.

By the way there is price information, I am very sure that it will be cheaper to buy a optics factory instead of this buying Maybach eye-glasses :)

I really wonder the logic behind this product.

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A good looking Maybach :O

Monday, May 24, 2010

If you are interested on cars, you would probably know about Maybach. Mercedes's ultra luxury brand which has a worse sales performance than any wheeled vehicle on earth! Since it was on market, it was not able to reach a sustainable sales performance. After the Rolls Royce Phantom introduced on market, Maybach's market share shrunk more and more! Main problem was Mercedes's mentality, they thought that; if we put millions of chips and technology and ignore design, we can sell it. Unfortunately, customers of ultra luxury segment do not care that much of your sophisticated technology as you predicted!

As the years have passed, Maybach situation became worse and worse. Mercedes recently discussed to shut down the brand in future, may be! While these rumours are around, a company in Germany designed a coupe version of Maybach. And they transformed the most boring ultra luxury car into something really looking good :) The boring looking Maybach changed totally by turning into a coupe. Mercedes should have released this model years ago and save the brand!

In my opinion, it is one of the best looking luxury coupe on market! And I am sure that Maybach coupe will have much better sales performance than the normal Maybach. Honestly, any car which is selling more than 200 per year has better performance than Maybach!

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Mercedes and Worldcarfans Websites

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Fat Maybach

Thursday, April 22, 2010

In 1997, I can clearly remember the date when I saw first pictures of future Mercedes which will be named as Maybach. Maybach was left sleeping for nearly four decades and Mercedes launched the brand with an electro shock which was done by old Mercedes S Class (W220).

Finally Maybach was on production in 2002! The features and technology was beyond imagination like its price tag. At the same time, Rolls Royce was working on new Phantom and Bentley was refurbished by Volkswagen. So the competition was getting tougher!

And Maybach revealed to market, however it was sharing too much in common with S Class. Actually Maybach was a stretched and pumped version of S Class. Or I can summarized it like this; Maybach is paint which was done by Botero.

Botero is well known painter who is expressing his ideas in terms of fat people and objects. He is exagratting the figures and objects to express the ideas. Maybach was like that, expressed the passion of Mercedes to go fight with Rolls Royce and Bentley with a S Class. It was basically a S Class with luxury.

And weirdly, current S Class is offering very similar features like Maybach and relatively cheaper! This also had impact on Maybach's sales performance. Despite its enormous engine power which can be used in World Rally Championship did not help Maybach to win! In UK last year, only seven Maybachs were sold. Just 7!

A few days ago Mercedes revealed a video for face lifted Maybach which will be introduced in China Motor Show. And the movie was took place in China with Chinese casting. This clearly Shows that, Mercedes is hopeless for Western market and they try their last chance in China. As matter of fact, Maybach is a great car but too expensive for a Mercedes

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Mercedes Website and NTV.com.tr

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Bentley flew to Maybach in Russia

Thursday, December 31, 2009

I think many people watch the video how a Romanian Maybach owner repaired his car by himself.

And now in Russia; a Bentley Continental Flying Spur flew to a Maybach 62 and they had a crash. Not a big one but they crashed :)

Here is the video from WorldCarFans

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Iconic Mercedes

Tuesday, December 29, 2009

When we remember the old Mercedes models from 1920s to 1960s. We could see that exquisite design and engineered beyond their era. Mercedes also know this very well and in every five years they reveal a “new” model which is exactly based on old iconic model. And sometimes they ruin that iconic models, they did it once with Maybach and once with SLR. I have better expectations from SLS Gullwing!

For me there are three great Mercedes models; first one is SSK, second one is 600 Pullman and the last one is 300SLR. I think the Pullman is more famous than its owner whole over the world. Nearly every well known politician, rock star, fashion designer, very very rich people owned one of them. The fascinating thing about the 600 Pullman was; when you push a button to close the window you don’t hear any electric motor noise, because it was controlled by hydraulic! Like an airplane, Pullman’s every single detail was moving by hydraulic. And it was built in 1963.

300SLR was also fascinating car; its design, reliability, ground breaking engine technology (direct injection, which is now available with VW’s FSi engines) and its performance. I don’t want to mention about economy and environmental side effects. When it was built in 1955, no one on earth had been to moon. Phone was a very luxury device, there was no fast food and also no starbucks! And Mercedes built that car in that era.

The SSK is one of the best looking cars. And producing nearly 300 horsepower from 7.3 lt engine in 1928. There is no need to say more!

And let’s come today; last one decade did Mercedes revealed something iconic? I am sure some of you will say, Maybach, my uncle’s S Class, my father’s S Class, my classmate’s uncle’s brother’s son’s S Class. Unfortunately, neither your relatives S Class nor Russian billionaires Maybach is not iconic. S Class is a contemporary car which satisfies the needs of customers. I am not a fan of S Class, I would rather choose CL or SL. Maybach was disaster, nobody denies this! It was based on old S Class and which looks like old S Class. And after new S Class it even looks older! Maybach was great brand in 1940s but they could not manage do it again.

The last and the best Mercedes is the G Wagon! For thirty years; it is still the best off roader, looking seriously cool, extremely robust in any terrain, Range Rover looks like Paris Hilton’s small dogs when you put beside G Wagon. But it is hard to drive as a result of being a proper off roader.

Mercedes SSK, 1928
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Mercedes 300 SLR, 1995

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Mercedes 600 Pullman, 1963

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Mercedes G Wagon, Since 1979

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Pilates for Luxury Segment

Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Pilates is a very popular physical fitness exercise. This exercise helps to strech your muscles, increase your concentration, control your breathing, better precision and more. I am not an expert on this, however I know that if you could manage to do it, it is good to do it.

In last decade; automotive companies also started to do pilates for luxury segment. However their pilates was not like the normal one! Instead of calming yourself and developing your physical health, this pilates made them more angry and agressive.

The ambition to jump luxury segment has some reasons; some brands desire to have a flagship model to strength their brand image and develop high technologies for flagship and transfer to other models (VW Phaëton model), some brands wanted revive a died brand and increase their market (Mercedes Maybach model), some brands extend their brand to extend it, even though they knew that they will fail(Renault VelSatis, Peugeot 607) and lastly some brands shift their brand image into luxury by revealing a new model (Hyundia model).

All of these models did not work as we all know that. Phaëton is an excellent car with very sophisticated technology but it didn't sell much but its structure is used for Bentley Continental Family which is very rational in economic terms. Mercedes Maybach was great project and introduced great cars which look likes old Mercedes S Class (W220) from outside and also from inside, despite the space age technology, it could not race with Rolls Royce or Bentley. Renault VelSatis was great looking and that was all, Peugeot 607 was a try to jump to a new segment and failed. However Hyundai made some success with Genesis in US market and that motivation gave more motivation and they will introduce a car for international market to compete with S Class, BMW 7 Series and Audi A8 and that is called Equus. Okay, Equus might be selling very well in Asia but the world is not Asia.

In general; a car company cannot go up into higher segments, the brand is mostly stuck on the segment which was emerged. Mercedes is always a luxury brand despite A Class, Rolls Royce is always super luxury brand, Peugeot will good price, good looking brand and Hyundia will be remembered with their Excel and Accent. It is nearly impossible to go up in automotive industry, even Mercedes spent lots of money and failed. Yes, Lexus made it but only in US. Even in Japan, their people don't buy it because they don't perceive Lexus as luxury brand.

These companies did brand extension, strecth the cars for upper segments, increase concentration, control your breath. The result? Not a good way of relaxing like Pilates. Don't strecth too much.

The best solution is to focus on increasing quality, better design and extend brand to lower segments. If the company has know-how and money like VW, go head introduce car like Phaëton. It won't hurt you, unless try not to do that.