This black on black Mercedes-Benz Maybach GLS 600 is based in Orange County, the lower priced of our two black on black Maybach GLS 600. It reads as a dark, serious Mercedes SUV outside a hotel or along the coast. Two reclining rear seats with heat, cooling and massage make the back seat the point, at the group's lower rate.
What makes this Maybach worth its rate is everything it does not ask you to do. The mild hybrid system smooths every restart along the Pacific Coast Highway so completely that the stop start system becomes invisible, and air suspension raises the body slightly for easier entry, then lowers it again at speed. The rear seats recline further than anything else in our fleet outside the other Maybach GLS 600. Up front there is 550 horsepower and a 4.6 second run to sixty available whenever it is asked for, but the car spends nearly all of its time hiding how quick it actually is.
All black inside and out is the specification that photographs as a working executive vehicle rather than a luxury rental, and that register covers most of the bookings this car gets. It suits frames outside office buildings in Costa Mesa or a hotel forecourt in Newport Beach, where the point is that nobody looks twice. Black paint wants controlled light, so shoot it after dark or under architectural lighting where the chrome grille and wheels catch and the body reads with depth. The strongest single frame is a rear door open with the cabin lit from inside, since that is what separates this from an ordinary black SUV.
We run two black on black Maybach GLS 600 in Orange County and this is the less expensive of the pair by two hundred dollars a day, with a lower per mile rate as well. The difference between the two is condition and specification rather than anything you would feel from the back seat, both make the same 550 horsepower and seat the same four people. If black on black is what the job calls for and the daily rate matters, book this one. If the budget is open and you want the strongest example we have regardless of rate, book the other.
This is the Maybach GLS 600 trim in black over black, the lower priced of the two black on black Maybach GLS 600 we run in Orange County at $795 a day. It carries the standard Maybach drivetrain, a 4.0 liter twin turbo V8 with mild hybrid assistance producing 550 horsepower and 538 lb-ft of torque through all wheel drive, with a 4.6 second run to sixty. Seating is four, two up front and two individual reclining rear seats with heating, cooling and massage and a fixed console between them. An electric running board lowers itself at the door. Overmileage is billed at $3 a mile, lower than the rate on our other black Maybach.