This grey on grey Mercedes-Benz Maybach GLS 600 is based in Orange County, the most restrained and least expensive of our five Maybach GLS 600. It reads as an ordinary Mercedes SUV at a valet stand or the airport, suited to a day of routine stops. Two reclining rear seats and the lowest overmileage rate in the group make it the practical pick.
Grey on grey is the quietest specification in our Maybach GLS 600 fleet and the car behaves accordingly on the run out through Irvine and Costa Mesa. The 550 horsepower mild hybrid V8 is present when you ask for it and nearly silent when you do not, with a gearbox that never hunts for a gear. Sixty in 4.6 seconds happens with almost no sound reaching the cabin. All wheel drive keeps it planted regardless of conditions, and the height gives a view over freeway traffic that a sedan cannot match. This is the Maybach for someone who wants the rear seat experience without the car drawing a second look.
Grey outside with a grey interior is the most restrained combination in our Maybach fleet and the one that reads as private rather than rented. There is no contrast to lean on, so the photograph has to come from the shape, the chrome and the light, and overcast days actually help here since grey holds its panel definition where the black cars lose it entirely. Shoot the side profile long and low outside an office building in Irvine, and use the rear door open frame for the cabin. It carries the lowest overmileage rate of our five Maybach GLS 600, which suits a longer transfer rather than a short one.
This is the lowest rate of our five Maybach GLS 600 and it also carries the lowest overmileage charge at $3 a mile, which together make it the least expensive way to put four people in a reclining rear seat for a full day. Grey on grey is also the most anonymous specification in our fleet, and for a client pickup or a private transfer through Irvine that is a feature rather than a compromise. Book the white, black or two tone Maybach if the vehicle is meant to be noticed. Book this one when the point is the rear seat and not the paint.
This is the Maybach GLS 600 trim in grey over grey, the lowest priced of our five Maybach GLS 600 at $795 a day. It runs 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 at the door on approach. Overmileage on this car is billed at $3 a mile, the lowest rate across our Maybach GLS 600 fleet.