the Best Money Can Buy : Mercedes-Maybach Pullman 2016
Why It Matters
To you? It doesn’t. To its owners, though, the Pullman is proof that they really are better than the rest of us. And to Mercedes, it serves as evidence that the brand, having tripped over its own champagne magnum with its previous Maybach experiment, can deliver a hyperluxury bolide to compete with Rolls-Royce.
Also, the Pullman name was just sitting around collecting dust.
Platform
Somewhere under all the splendiferousness lie the W222 bones of the current S-class, but with a prom-limo 173.9-inch wheelbase that is more than four feet longer than that of an S550 sedan.
Powertrain
Contrary to rumor, the Pullman does not come with a complement of galley slaves.
Rather, motivation comes from a hulking 6.0-liter V-12 strapped with two turbochargers and good for 523 horsepower and 612 pound-feet of torque.
Competition
Bentley Mulsanne, Rolls-Royce Phantom, the war elephants of Genghis Khan.
What Might Go Wrong
The usual things: revolution, the return of the guillotine, world peace, a doubling of the capital-gains tax, the restoration of Glass-Steagall.
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