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When you hear the word Maybach - you immediately think of Rolls Royce phantom eating super luxury road yachts that appeal mostly to rappers , but now Maybach's parent company Mercedes has decided to combine Maybach into the S-Class  giving rise to the Mercedes Maybach S500/S600 which is basically Mercedes' ultra luxury S-Class for wealthy  billionaires in Asian markets. The Merc Maybach has two versions - one is a "low end" S-500  model with a v8-Bi-Turbo which has 450 Bhp with 750 nm of Torque and a somewhat nice $166,668 price tag  . The top of the range flagship S600 however has a V12 which delivers 530Bhp  830nm of torque and a 0-60 mph figure of 5 seconds - which is impressive for a car this heavy , pricing of the s600 model lists it at $233,571 which is still a huge bargain compared to the Maybach 57/62 models which cost well over $400,000 . The Mercedes Maybach models are said to go  on sale in February of next year . Written by Rakitha for Mas...

Luxury car companies are enjoying record sales from Asian markets , Rolls Royce , Bentley are already steaming ahead with they new full size road yachts and Maybach is probably one of the last ones to join the show with the new Maybach S class  . The Maybach luxury company as you know is owned by Mercedes , the 100 year + company has gone through several changes over the years and it was once even scheduled to be phased out due to financial recession  . The new Mercedes - Maybach S class builds on some design cues of the standard S - Class including a v12 engine and so it is now numbered as S-600 although Mercedes hopes to make Maybach a seperate brand from the usual list of Mercedes products . Speaking of products , the company has also re-shuffled its lineup and it now has a new numbering/class system that gets rid of the old M  class off road vehicle series in favor of the "GL" class  . The SLK roadster is also shelved in favor of  SLC that goes unde...

Mercedes Benz has sold its remaining 4% share of Tesla for $780 million . The German auto giant , which purchased a large 9.1% stake of Tesla back in 2009 ,saw its share reduced to 4% once Tesla grew . The joint effort , which initially started out as a effort to get Tesla's battery expretise to power Mercedes B class and Smart EV's will still continue even though the companies have no mutual agreement now. Our partnership with Tesla is very success and will be continued, Dr. Dieter Zetsche, head of Mercedes-Benz Cars  Both car companies have a reputation for being luxury vehicles and this splitting , according to some ,might result in more competition in the luxury EV market as both companies are currently working on semi-diver interaction cars that will probably launch along side their respective flagship models in the future Written by Rakitha for MasHD Source - SlashGear

Many of us cried when we heard that the SLS AMG was going to be axed , but as it turns out ,the folks running the show in Germany decided that killing off a V8 GT car it wasn't such a good idea so now they are revising their plan with the new Mercedes AMG GT , the spin off model , developed a - la AMG , is said to be Mercedes' answer to the ever present danger from neighborly rivals like Porsche is said to keep the AMG GT platform alive for more 7 years with many spin off's of the version coming soon . The AMG GT ,which looks like a car that was deigned after a SLR and a SLS mating program is said to pack a decent 456Bhp  and the AMG GTS version will have 503Bhp thanks to a Twin Turbo V8 that is now downsized to 4.0 Liters from the 6.3 in the old SLS . Both models will feature a 7 speed dual clutch transmission  and a lower mounted engine and better weight distribution. The AMG GT is said to cost much lower than the older SLS version which started out at $220K , The new A...