Mercedes-Benz Officially Discontinues the Maybach

While the Maybach by Mercedes-Benz was touted as being the best luxury car in the world, it never really reached its full potential. It looked too much like a regular Mercedes-Benz, both inside and out, and despite the sheer quality and luxury of the interior, cars like the Rolls-Royce Phantom and now the Bentley Mulsanne are much more appealing.

It was supposed to go out of production in 2011, but they strangely kept making them and now they have a few left which they are selling at a $100,000 (€81,000) discount. They didn’t even issue a press release to announce the news, opting instead to have ‘Discontinued’ next to all five models in the pricing list. However, this means that the cars that the cars which they have left, will sell rather quickly, thanks to the discount.

Nobody will really miss the Maybach, because of the very few people who could afford one, even fewer actually considered buying one and a smaller percentage of those people actually went on to spend their money. Still, it would have been nice to see the result of the proposed Meredes-Aston Martin partnership which was supposed to give Maybach a new lease of life, but fell through due to cost issues.