Mercedes-Maybach GLS - glamor and more individuality. What about the engine?

Mercedes-Maybach GLS will be presented in November. What will be the first Maybach SUV?

It will be included in the group of the most elite SUVs of this year. Mercedes thanks to the new model Maybach. Calling this car a new model might be a bit of an exaggeration since it is a model. UPSbut in a much more luxurious way.

No one needs to be convinced that the segment of very luxurious SUVs is growing extremely fast and is very profitable. An example of this is the Bentley Bentayga, the brand's best-selling model. Aston Martin expects record sales of the new DBX - obviously it's an SUV. Rolls Royce and Lamborghini also offer SUVs. Soon Ferrari will also present its proposal, and we are also waiting for Alpina based on the BMW X7. The market is huge, as is the interest. And we are talking about cars, which often cost as much as three apartments in a big city.

This trend, of course, could not bypass Mercedes. The offer includes "standard" GLE and GLS models in AMG and Brabus and G-Class variants, but they're "vulgar" with what the brand wants to do now. That's why Mercedes reached out for the Maybach logo, a company that Daimler reactivated in 2014 for cases like the one described today. Sure about what will rise Mercedes-Maybach GLS this has been known for a long time, but in the end there are specifics. The car is a mystery, but given that it's based on the GLS model, a few solutions can be expected.

What will be the first Maybach SUV? Mercedes-Maybach GLS

Mercedes sub-brand owners say the SUV should offer the same performance, functionality and comfort as Mercedes-Maybach based on the S-class. The only difference will be a heavier and bulkier body, which is a classic SUV. The target market for the car should be North America, Russia and China, although I believe that there will be many fans of this model in Europe as well. However, if the standard S-Class and the richest version of the Maybach look different mainly in length and color, then in the top version of the GLS there should be more individual stylistic accents, and this is good. The Maybach 57 and 62 were very exotic, the Maybach S-Class is also rare, but no longer as impressive as the cars the brand produced before the 2011 retirement announcement.

version Maybach It will be built using the same body panels made from the same materials as the standard GLS models. However, you can expect a different grille, different taillights and unique headlight graphics. Surely there will be individual Maybach wheel patterns that are similar to the S-class Maybach - they should give a more noble look.

Mercedes-Maybach GLS - what's new on the technical side?

However, the technical aspects of the car are the most secret. There's a lot of talk about the floor slab and the wheelbase, which on the standard second generation GLS is 3075mm. This figure is 40 mm lower than the flagship Range Rover SV Autobiography, but still significantly higher than the Bentley SUV. However, it should be remembered that the Bentayga floor plate has the same design as in the "plebeian" Audi Q7.

Any discussion on the topic Mercedes-Maybach GLS probably won't dissipate until November. Personally, I think that the car will meet the competition and will use an unchanged plate of a cheaper counterpart.

Of course, the most luxurious can be found inside the car. You can expect hectares of expensive materials of better quality than those used in the Designo range. The infotainment system will also change, it will be based on Maybach graphics, but will the functionality change? I doubt it.

It is rather difficult to expect big revolutions in power units. Undoubtedly, under the hood will be the well-known 4-liter twin-supercharged V8 engine, which will be paired with a nine-speed automatic transmission and 4Matic drive. Also on board will be Air Body Control air suspension. Those with a deeper understanding of the subject of Mercedes suggest that there are plans to build a 6-liter twin-turbo V12 engine. That would be something, but these reports are unconfirmed, so it remains to be seen if this is just guesswork or if the new Maybach will actually be able to stand on equal footing next to a 6-liter Bentley and an almost 7-liter. liter Rolls-Royce. It is also said that the offer will include hybrid engines, not only those running on gasoline, but also diesel-electric systems, which Mercedes recently introduced.

One of the foreign editions unofficially found out that the prices Maybacha GLS they should start at £150 or around PLN 000, but that doesn't include excise duty and seems like a pretty low price for a car like this. I'm expecting a price of around a million.

The photos in the article show the standard GLS and last year's vision of the SUV. Maybach. This is because Daimler hasn't released any official photos of the new model, but various renderings are surfacing online, some of which represent what we're likely to see at Mercedes' flagship SUV premiere in November.