This black Mercedes-Benz S580 Maybach with a black and white interior is based in Orange County, the only Maybach sedan we run against five Maybach GLS SUVs. Most of the street files it as a nice S-Class, while the people at the door know exactly what pulled up. Book it for a client pickup or a wedding arrival where the moment belongs to the passenger.
This Maybach S580 rides lower, quieter and flatter than the Maybach GLS we also keep, and the long wheelbase is the entire point. 496 horsepower from a mild hybrid twin turbo V8 and all wheel drive send it to sixty in 4.7 seconds, smoothed out so a rear passenger barely registers it. Rear axle steering makes something this long turn far more tightly than it should through a tight Newport Beach parking structure. On the freeway toward Los Angeles or San Diego it settles into the kind of quiet that makes a long transfer disappear rather than drag.
Black with a black and white interior gives you an executive sedan look outside and a genuinely graphic cabin once a rear door opens. The exterior stays deliberately anonymous, long and low with chrome that only reads under controlled light, so shoot it at night or under a hotel canopy near Fashion Island rather than in flat daylight. The white in the cabin is what makes the interior frames work, cutting hard against the dark body once the door is open. The strongest image on this car is the rear seat reclined with the door open and the interior lighting on.
This is the only Maybach sedan we run. Our other five Maybachs are all the GLS, which is an SUV, so if the requirement is a low, quiet four door with the best rear seat in our fleet, this is the group of one. It rides lower and quieter than any GLS and reclines further than anything else we keep. Book it for a client pickup or a wedding arrival where showing up high off the ground would be the wrong note in Orange County.
This is the Maybach S580, the Mercedes-Benz sedan built on the longer S-Class platform. It runs the 4.0 liter twin turbo V8 with mild hybrid assistance at 496 horsepower and 516 lb-ft, sent through all wheel drive, air suspension, and rear axle steering. This exact car is black over a black and white interior, the Maybach signature two tone cabin with rose gold accents on the gauges. It seats five across four doors, with a reclining rear seat built for the two passengers behind the front row rather than for the driver.