Oh Maybach! Maybach Zeppelin @ 2009 Geneva Auto Show

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MORE GENEVA MOTOR SHOW @ INSIDELINE.COM: www.edmunds.com Mercedes-Benz has added a limited-edition flagship to its underachieving Maybach lineup in the form of a new Zeppelin model. The Zeppelin will debut at the 2009 Geneva Auto Show next month. To be produced in a limited run of 100 vehicles at Mercedes-Benz's Sindelfingen factory in southern Germany, the range-topping Maybach can be ordered based on either the 57 or the more spacious 62 version of the company's six-year-old upmarket limousine — the latter aimed at rival Rolls-Royce's Phantom EWB. Resurrecting the name given to the most imposingly styled and luxuriously equipped Maybach models built between 1928 and 1934, the modern-day Zeppelin is distinguished from existing Maybach models through a range of exterior styling changes, equipment upgrades to the interior and a more powerful version of the Maybach S's V12 gasoline engine. They include a unique two-tone paint scheme combining beige along the shoulder line with a black finish for the rest of the body, together with more aerodynamic exterior mirror housings with integral indicator units, darkened taillamp lenses, an altered tailpipe design, towering 12-spoke 20-inch alloy wheels and Zeppelin badges in the grille and on the trunk. Inside, there is corresponding beige and black leather for the seats, along with black piano lacquer for the dashboard fascia. Other unique touches are silver champagne flutes, door sills and a key, all engraved with the word <b>...</b>

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Maybach, Zeppelin, 2009, Geneva, Auto, Show, Mercedes, car, motor, Edmunds, Inside, line

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