Maybach 57s

The thing with the Maybach, maybe to a greater extent with the Phantom, is it's all about "Lebensraum".
It was John D Rockefeller who once said,

"I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure."

I can sort of understand where he was coming from. When you have so much money that many of life's attractions are lost, as you can have them so readily, then everything is just a waiting game. You therefore need something to do. I'm always amazed at those heavily botoxed, middle-aged wives, just flitting between tennis lesson and Versace. They always look so bored. All that money, and time, and no smile...

Oh well. If you're going to while away your time, getting from A to B, then you might as well do it in the back of a Maybach. The nomenclature signifies their relative lengths, the 57 and the 62 models tend to pack in pretty much everything ever conceived of fitting into a car: in the 62, heated Grand Nappa leather, fridges, full A/V systems, telephony, folding tables, fully reclining seats, footstools, four-way climate control, tissue dispensers, lacquer-framed makeup mirrors, 21-speaker BOSE system, one-touch door closers and a power glass partition with intercom. However the highlight is the electro-transparent rear roof section lined with an electro-luminescent membrane that emits smoothly diffused light. From the rear you can control the lighting intensity.

But if I had to take one Maybach, it would be the 57s. For sure you lose some of the more extravagant options in the longer version, but in the lighter (still over 6000 pounds), and smaller car, the 6.0 litre V12 with it's 604 bhp, makes this an awesome driver. The twin turbos spin off 738 lb ft of torque, taking you to 60mph in 4.9 seconds, all the way to 172mph.

List price? €310,000.