The 8 Million Dollar Maybach
10 Comments January 31, 2007 / Posted in Cars
The engineers at Mercedez-Maybach have built a truly amazing supercar. The Maybach Exelero is a one-of-a kind, handbuilt, 700 horsepower monster. The Exelero was originally commission by the Fulga Tire Company, who wanted to build a car of vast size and capability to prove they could make extra large low profile tires that could carry 6000 lbs and go 200 mph. The final cost? Eight million dollars. No other sports car in the world has tires this large.
What kind of vast size are we talking about? This car is 19 feet long, has 23 inch wheels and a gas mileage of 2.5 mpg at full throttle. Maybach insists that another Exelero will never be built. However, the worldwide reaction to the car has been so strong that Mercedes execs admitted they are considering a Maybach two-seater, although officially “there are no immediate plans.”
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Matt Blancarte
Josh Mullineaux
Now that’s what I call one pretty sweet car!
That is one jaw-dropping car!
Allen.H
see not i would love to drive around in the middle of the day in that baby… hmmmm, How can i make that happen?
I think for that price, I would instead take an Enzo, McLaren F1, Bugatti, Carerra GT, and a bunch of other ridiculous cars.
this is not a series car.
wow, thats a sweet car. It’ll be very rare to ever see that anywhere.
the car is bad . 2.5 mpg for 700 hp is rubbish .maybe if te car was carbon fibre and had some unnessisary weight and parts taken off it could be better.i expect more from maybach and mercedes
Whoa, sign me up for one of those ( if I only had 8 mill )
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