This black on black Mercedes-Benz Maybach GLS 600 is based in Orange County, the higher priced and higher condition of our two black on black Maybach GLS 600. It reads as a serious executive SUV outside a hotel or at the airport, built around two reclining rear seats with heat, cooling and massage. Book it when you want our strongest example regardless of rate.
This is a car engineered to be sat in rather than driven, and every part of it agrees. Air suspension scans the road ahead through Irvine and Costa Mesa traffic and adjusts each corner before the wheel gets there, so what should feel like good damping instead feels like the surface has been resurfaced overnight. Acoustic glass and heavy sound deadening keep the cabin quiet enough that the 550 horsepower V8 barely registers at a cruise, and sixty in 4.6 seconds arrives without drama. For a run out to John Wayne Airport or a client pickup, nothing else in our Orange County fleet does this particular job as completely.
Black inside and out is the specification that belongs outside a hotel entrance in Newport Beach or an office building in Irvine, and it is the one that reads as serious rather than showy. There is no colour to work with, so the chrome trim, the grille and the wheels carry every frame, and all three photograph best under evening or architectural light rather than flat daylight. Shoot the rear door open with the seat reclined and the cabin lit, since that is the frame that explains what the car actually is. This is the higher condition of our two black on black Maybach GLS 600, and it shows in how clean every panel and edge reads.
We run two black on black Maybach GLS 600 in Orange County and this is the more expensive of the pair, priced at $1,195 a day against $795 for the other. The difference is condition and specification rather than anything you would feel differently from the back seat, both make the same 550 horsepower and seat the same four people. If the job wants black on black and you want the strongest example we have regardless of rate, this is that car. If black on black is the requirement and the daily rate matters more, our other one runs two hundred a day less with a lower per mile charge.
This is the Maybach GLS 600 trim in black over black, the top rate of the two black on black Maybach GLS 600 we run in Orange County. It carries the standard Maybach drivetrain, a 4.0 liter twin turbo V8 with mild hybrid assistance producing 550 horsepower and 568 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 seats in back with heating, cooling and massage and a fixed console between them. An electric running board lowers itself at the door. The difference between this car and our other black on black Maybach is condition and specification rather than anything mechanical.