Vision Mercedes-Maybach 6.
Explore of an ultra-stylish luxury-class coupé.
- Mercedes-Benz
- Design
- Vision Mercedes-Maybach 6.
Debut in Pebble Beach.
Every August classic car fans from around the world converge on Pebble Beach in California for a very special beauty contest. This gathering of magnificent classic cars is the ideal place to premiere the sensational Vision Mercedes-Maybach 6, a sensational luxury-class coupé. The Two+Two seater is a homage to the glorious age of the aero coupés and consciously carries this tradition forward into the future.
The coupé reinterprets classic, emotional design principles in an extreme way, following the Mercedes-Benz design philosophy of voluptuous purity.
A captivating coupé.
“Our charming coupé, the Vision Mercedes-Maybach 6, represents the ultimate in contemporary luxury. It is hot and cool”, states Gorden Wagener, Chief Design Officer Daimler AG. “With its intelligent appeal and diminished, technoid look, it flawlessly embodies our design philosophy of voluptuous purity and our pursuit of aerodynamic efficiency.”
A charming coupé.
“Our fascinating coupé, the Vision Mercedes-Maybach 6, represents the ultimate in contemporary luxury. It is hot and cool”, states Gorden Wagener, Chief Design Officer Daimler AG. “With its intelligent appeal and diminished, technoid look, it flawlessly embodies our design philosophy of voluptuous purity and our pursuit of aerodynamic efficiency.”
Classic, aesthetic principles.
With its voluptuous, emotional design (“hot”) and intelligent details (“cool”), the Vision Mercedes-Maybach six represents the ultimate in luxury. The classic aesthetic proportions of the showcase car – the utterly long bonnet, the low roof line and the rearward positioning of the greenhouse – recall the aero coupés of days gone by. But this is not retro design – this is a reinterpretation of classic, aesthetic principles.
The large coupé is set to make its debut at Monterey Car Week, which will take place on the Monterey Peninsula inbetween sixteen and twenty one August 2016. The final event on twenty one August will be the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance.
The exterior design.
Clearly defined contours and organically formed wings stand in contrast to the sharply drawn, extended feature line on each side which defines the upper vehicle bod from the radiator grille across the entire length of the vehicle to the rear. There is also a striking contrast inbetween the Maybach crimson paintwork and the chrome strips which sit above the wheel arches and in the centre of the bonnet and boot lid. A reinterpretation of the Mercedes-Maybach radiator grille with its fine, vertical struts accentuates the front end. The extended, round “boat tail” format of the Vision Mercedes-Maybach 6’s rear recalls a luxury yacht.
The interior as luxurious 360° lounge.
The front windscreen serves as a see-through display: driving-related data and geographical information is shown across its total width, augmenting the outside world with extra information. This information can be managed and adjusted by the occupants using gestures. The dashboard wing forms across the door trim into the seat landscape, creating a 360° lounge.
The sitting surface forms a horizontal, which transitions into the vertical of the doors and ultimately becomes the underside of the dashboard wing. In the doors and dashboard the traditional wood trim softens the appearance of the digital control and display interfaces. As a contrast to the digital world of the displays, elm is used in the floor area, creating a refined yachting look.
Typical sports car spectacle.
The Vision Mercedes-Maybach six is designed as an electrical car. Thanks to its four compact permanent magnet synchronous electrified motors, it features all-wheel drive. The output of the drive system is five hundred fifty kW (750 PS). The shallow underfloor battery has a usable capacity of approx. Eighty kWh. This not only permits spectacle characteristics typical of a sports car (acceleration from 0‑100 km/h in under four seconds, top speed electronically governed at two hundred fifty km/h) but also a range of over five hundred kilometres according to the NEDC (over two hundred miles according to EPA).
With its astounding dimensions, the Vision Mercedes-Maybach six (length/width/height: 5700/2100/1328 millimetres) is the very first luxury coupé in the series of visionary design showcase cars from Mercedes-Benz .