A four-seat luxury SUV built around its back seat, with a hidden staircase and a champagne fridge inside.
The Mercedes-Maybach GLS 600 is a four-seat luxury SUV built around the two people in the back, with motorised rear recliners, a refrigerated armrest, and a gliding aluminium staircase that deploys from the sill. It goes to the airport pickup, the wedding party, and the renter who is booking the rear seat rather than the seat behind the wheel.
The GLS 600 floats, its air suspension pre-adjusting for bumps it senses ahead of the wheels while the V8 builds as a steady whoosh rather than a shove. All of that softness is engineered for the rear seat, so the best booking is one where somebody else drives.
The Mercedes-Maybach GLS 600 is an airport pickup car for a client or a family, a wedding party vehicle with four seats and room for luggage, and a content or music video booking on the strength of its rear seat theatre alone. A solo renter who plans to drive it themselves is sitting in the wrong seat, since this car rewards whoever is not holding the wheel. It suits a group that wants one vehicle to carry two principals in comfort while the driving stays incidental to the booking, and it suits a family that wants grandparents or children handled as gently as the badge suggests.
The Mercedes-Maybach GLS 600 sits at the top of a four-tier GLS range and is the only version of the SUV carrying the Maybach name. Prometheus Exotics runs it and none of the versions below it.
The Mercedes-Benz GLS 450 is the entry version of this SUV, a turbocharged inline six with mild hybrid assistance, three rows of seats and no Maybach content anywhere in it. Prometheus Exotics does not run one. It shares the body shell and the air suspension but none of the rear cabin hardware that defines the Maybach.
The Mercedes-Benz GLS 580 steps up to a 4.0 liter twin-turbo V8 with mild hybrid assistance while keeping the standard three-row interior. Prometheus Exotics does not run one. It is the closest a non-Maybach GLS gets to the 600 mechanically, and it still has a bench seat where the Maybach has two motorized recliners.
The Mercedes-AMG GLS 63 is the performance version of this SUV, with a hand-assembled AMG V8, firmer damping and a louder exhaust in place of the Maybach comfort tuning. Prometheus Exotics does not run one. It is the quickest version of this SUV and the one furthest in character from the Maybach GLS 600.
The Mercedes-Maybach GLS 600 is the trim Prometheus Exotics runs, a 4.0 liter twin-turbo V8 with mild hybrid assistance, a dedicated Maybach drive mode and a 4 seat rear cabin with motorized recline and massage. Its electric staircase lowers from the sill so that passengers step down to the pavement rather than climb out of the car.
Night Series is a limited Mercedes-Maybach appearance package, replacing the chrome brightwork and the two-tone paint with black exterior detailing, dark wheels and a darker cabin palette. Prometheus Exotics does not run a Night Series car. Nothing mechanical changes under it, so a Night Series car drives exactly like any other Maybach GLS 600.