The two-tone emerald green over silver Mercedes-Benz Maybach S580 with the cream macchiato interior is based in Los Angeles. This is the car for the person riding in the back, the bride, the client, the parents at the anniversary dinner. The green and silver split tells the valet it isn't a normal S-Class before the door opens. It's available across Los Angeles, Orange County and the Inland Empire.
Put it in Maybach mode and the car pulls away in 2nd gear with a softened throttle, so nobody in the back feels the start. The 4.0 twin-turbo V8 makes 496 hp and you'll never hear it work. The cabin stays quiet because the sound system cancels road noise using the suspension sensors, not just microphones. Rear-axle steering turns the back wheels up to 10 degrees, so a car this long parks like a compact. Slide the rear seat back, recline it, raise the leg rest. The first 10 minutes are Sunset Boulevard at 25 mph, past the Beverly Hills Hotel, with the blinds half down. Whoever is driving does very little. That's the design, and it's why the person in back books it twice.
Emerald green over silver, split by a hand-painted line along the shoulder. In direct sun the green reads almost black on the lower body and the silver roof throws light back, so shoot with the sun behind you. In open shade the green comes up and you finally see the colour. After dark the chrome grille and the lit Maybach badges in the rear pillars carry the frame. Take the rear three-quarter with both back doors open so the cream seats show against the green. Shoot the badge on the silver pillar close, right where the 2 colours meet. These photos were taken on a palm-lined street in Beverly Hills. Shoot it there, or at the curb on Rodeo Drive.
We run 2 Maybach S580s. The other is black over a black and white cabin, based in Orange County at $795 a day. This is the two-tone green over silver one at $695, and it's the only Maybach S580 we keep in Los Angeles. Black is the diplomat spec, it disappears into traffic. Green over silver is the car people stop and ask about, and the cream interior photographs clean against it. If the point of the day is the arrival, this is the one.
The Maybach S580 starts as an S-Class and adds 7 inches of wheelbase, longer rear doors, the vertical-bar Maybach grille, rear-axle steering, air suspension and the reclining rear seats. This one is the two-tone, emerald green below and silver above, with the dividing line hand-painted. Chrome multi-spoke Maybach wheels. Inside it's cream macchiato leather in diamond quilting, wood trim across the dash and rear console, and rose ambient lighting. The 2 rear seats are the executive type, with fold-out tables on both sides, cupholders between them, pillows on the headrests and a screen on the console. The engine is the 4.0 twin-turbo V8 with mild hybrid, 496 hp, all-wheel drive. 5 seats.