Nothing keeps out the smell of the peasantry like a Mercedes-Maybach Pullman. Not only are you sealed off from the world behind privacy glass and curtains; you can even silence the butler with the electrically operated partition between the driver's quarters and the "club lounge" in which you're reclining at precisely 43.5° - the preferred posture of the world's highest rankers. In short - or rather, long - it's a 6.5-mctre super-limo with a 5.9-litre, twin-turbo V12 making 522bhp, which is a sufficient amount of poke, should Jeeves be feeling frisky. It's a full metre longer than a regular stretched S-Class, so there's plenty of legroom, so long as you're happy sitting scissor-legged with the person opposite. If you can't bear that sort of physical contact, simply delete the fold-down, rear-facing seats and make the bodyguards jog alongside. Prices start from around €500,000 for the unarmoured version, rising to even sillier amounts for the full, luxe-apocalypse model.
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