The Mercedes-Maybach S650 Cabriolet Is the $350,000 Ultimate S-Class

This is a 2017 Mercedes-Maybach S650 Cabriolet and it is the

ultimate

luxury convertible and when I say the

ultimate

luxury convertible I mean it, it costs more than a Bentley convertible and has more power than a Rolls-Royce convertible and there are only 300 of them. these in the world and today I'm going to review this one. I borrowed this S650 Cabriolet from Mercedes-Benz of Temecula which is a Mercedes-Benz dealership here in Temecula northeast of San Diego that has a wide selection of all the latest Mercedes-Benz models including the currently only S650 Cabriolet for sale in the United States, but it's not a very difficult feat because Mercedes-Benz sold only 75 of these in the United States.

That's right, this is one of only 75 in the US and 300 on the planet now, when they were new the starting price was around 250,000, but that was before options were plentiful and expensive, the Sticker price of this one was around 337 thousand dollars after options were added that make this car a legitimate Rolls-Royce and Bentley competitor, which is not a surprise considering that Mercedes sold it under the Ultra brand. Mybach luxury and if the rarity and price had not convinced you, consider that this car has a twin-turbo V12 with 620 horsepower which makes it more powerful than the Bentley Continental GTC and the Rolls-Royce Dawn, its most ultra-luxury competitors. nearby so today i will take you on a tour of the

mercedes

maybach

s650

cabriolet

and show you all the quirks and features of the latest

mercedes

convertible then i will take it out on the road and drive it and then give it an excellent rating.

I'm going to start with the quirks and features of the

s650

cabriolet

with getting in and that means starting with the key now, at first glance it looks like a normal mercedes-benz key but if you turn it over you have the mybach logo that reminds you and everyone who sees your key that you don't have a normal key. mercedes-benz and there is no shortage of mybach logos on this car to continue with that reminder, there is another one here on the front fender instead of a v12 bi-turbo badge that explains the engine of this car, it only has the mybach logo, which It's all you really need but my favorite mybach logo is only visible when the top is down.

You can see it's on the rear deck lid, just above where the top folds into the trunk, and it's just the maibok m right there centered, subtle and yet it says a lot, but if there was any doubt that It was a mybach from the outside of this car. All doubts are dispelled when you walk in because the inside of this thing is absolutely beautiful. Just look around, the leather is fantastic with this gorgeous brown piping all over the seats and dash. gorgeous brown leather with beautiful stitching everything is leather everything is of the highest quality this interior is a step up from what you get in the s class which is already a step up from what you get in basically any other vehicle really awesome other material luxurious Here's the carpet, which isn't just your standard car carpet, it's much thicker and more comfortable than that and it's white to match the rest of the interior.

Now you're thinking: who wants white rugs? Isn't it going to get dirty? the answer is no, no, people with my bot cabrioles don't get dirty now, when you walk in here, apart from all the beautiful stitching and beautiful leather, there are several other reminders that you have a more special

maybach

s-class, for example , on the doorstep. it says maybach instead of mercedes-benz another example is here on the center console on the storage lid printed on the leather you have the mybach m but my favorite interior maibok reminder is that on the top of the center console you can see it says mybach and then under that one of 300 just to remind you that not only do you have a mybach but by the way you have a special mybach, that piece that says one of 300 opens up to reveal your wireless charging tray and you can see the little piece . that opens is not just a plastic clip, it actually has a glass look, it's almost as if Mercedes looked at this interior and said: "Okay, everything that the s-class has we have to improve", so it is It would have looked good if it were aluminum. but they just didn't stop there, they had to make it nicer and then moved on to the rest of the cool quirks and features of this car, talking about that 300 thing.

If you look in the back seat, you can see there are some bags. This is the specialized Maibak luggage that came with this car and you can also see that it is very beautiful and matches the interior perfectly. Same colors, same piping, and there's a Mybach logo printed on the leather of the bag, also printed on the bag, albeit one of 300. You have a reminder in your luggage of how special your car is. Now you might be wondering what's inside a Mybach bag. The answer is that you open it and there is another Mybach bag and its color also matches perfectly with the interior it has.

It has the Mybach logo and it also says one of 300. This is luxury, now this car is not just about materials, Mybach badges and quality, there are also many amazing features in this vehicle, for example, it has an air scarf, look at this. On the door panel you have the buttons for the cooled seat for the heated seat and then there's a seat with a line like if you press it and it turns on an air scarf that activates this little heater in the headrest so you can You're driving At night with the top down you start to feel cold, you don't have to put the top up, you simply turn on the air scarf and the heat blows on your neck, warming you, allowing you to keep the top down even in colder weather. that's why they call it an absolutely brilliant air scarf here's another great feature this is a long two door car and that means when you get inside it can be a little difficult to get to your seat belts fortunately this car has automatic seat belt extenders seat belts once you get in, they push the seat belt out and deliver it to you electronically so you can grab it and buckle up.

Once buckled, the extender automatically retracts into the car until it is needed again to deliver the seat belt to you. That's not incredibly uncommon in two-door luxury cars. I've seen that feature before, but I've never seen this one. If you get in the car, start it, and don't put your seat belt on for a while, the extender will activate. You retreat to the car thinking maybe you're just going to be sitting there, you're not actually going anywhere, but when you're ready to go somewhere, you have to turn around and go that far, but you don't see this.

A small button next to the gauge cluster with a seat belt, if you press it, will automatically pull out the extenders so the seat belt can be delivered to you, even if the extenders return to the car after a minute. Since they are designed to do so, you can still make them come back out so you don't have to go as far, that's pure luxury. Another interesting item next to the button for the seat belt extenders, you can see there is a button with a seat and some arrows that button will move the rear headrest now in many cars you can press a button that lowers the rear headrest so you can see better but in this car you press that button and it's electronic the headrest can go up or down automatically with the push of a button on the driver's seat, which is another really luxurious feature, by the way, an item worth noting, between the button For the seat belt extender and button for the headrest, there is a blank space and you have to ask yourself: this is a fully equipped 340 thousand dollar version of the S-class, what could be missing?

I will always wonder and then we move on to another ultra luxury feature on the mybach s650 and that would be the aroma so in your car you have a climate control system and it expels air in this car it expels air and a fragrance if you open the glove box you can see there's actually like a bottle of perfume in here, you can change this for several different fragrances, whatever you prefer and then you can set the car to make sure the fragrance comes out with the climate control when you have the climate control running and That way the interior of your mybach will not only be cool or warm at the temperature you want, but it will also smell.

Precisely the fragrance that you want and then another incredible luxury feature in this car is the heating panel. Your car may have heated seats. It may even have a heated steering wheel. This thing has heated panels, so if you want to rest your arm on the center console. the armrest for example you can heat it, it's great to heat something other than the seats on the steering wheel but obviously it's expensive and difficult but they do it for the mybach and then another luxury feature of this car is the heating system Burmester sound, which of course, is one of the best names in high quality sound.

You can see there are beautiful speakers on the doors, absolutely beautiful. What I really like is the fact that the speakers don't just say burmester, they say burmester high end to remind you. that this is not just a normal Burmester sound system like you can find in a normal S-Class. No, no, this is the high-end version. Now, next, another thing I want to mention around those high-end Burmester speakers on the back cover. It's how beautiful the back cover lid is. Look at this beautiful wood back here, it looks like the deck of a luxury yacht and you also have leather back here which continues the incredibly beautiful luxury theme.

It's just fantastic, no one is going to see this. panel especially with the top up, but if you look back you'll remember again that this is a true ultra-luxury car and the next step since we're talking about that area which is obviously the base of the roof when it's in place, so Discuss the ceiling and specifically how to make it go up and down. Curiously, there is no immediately obvious button on the center control console for the roof. Instead of finding the roof button, you have to go to the center console storage area and it has this little latch.

And lifting the roof is actually a pretty simple process: just push down on the latch and the roof lifts up. Take a look now that you have the roof up on this car. Two things are really notable: one is how isolated it is from the outside world. It feels like you're driving a co-op even though this is a soft-top convertible, you can't hear anything. I'll cover it more down the road, but the other interesting thing is what's inside this convertible top. you just have a piece of canvas or you can even see the mechanisms on the top, but here you don't have a very luxurious headliner that looks like alcantara, it has stitching, everything is really exclusive because that's exactly what you do when you make the luxury convertible definitive.

This convertible top even has a set of rear passenger lights, dome lights, and reading lights. You don't often see lights built into the movable convertible roof, but this car has them because the rear passengers couldn't be without their reading lights. Now, another cool thing you can do with the roof up or, frankly, with the roof down, you go back to the center console storage area and there's a button there with the windows, if you press that button, it will lower all four windows. at the same time, which is a great feature that more cars should have, especially convertibles, you don't have to hold down each individual window button to roll them all down and once you have all the windows down in this car, you have this beautiful pillarless appearance, there is no B-pillar in the middle to ruin the design, so it has a beautiful appearance with a continuous opening from the windshield to the rear of the car, really cool, of course, if it starts to get cold or you arrive to your destination, you can always use it. that button to the other side just pull it and then all four windows will pop up simultaneously, so once again you don't have to press each individual window button.

It's a very good idea, but you can still enjoy yourself enough on the roof of this car. with the roof down, to lower it go back to the center console storage area, that big silver switch this time you lift it up and then the roof does its job and goes down, take a look and then continue with the roof down for a couple of seconds. Other interesting roof-related items worth covering is the wind deflector. If you go back to the center console storage area, you can see that there is a button there that shows up as an arrow that goes over the car with the roof down if you press the wind.

The deflector will automatically go up and that will deflect the wind over the car and that's just another way you can keep the wind out of your hair but still enjoy a top down driving experience, by the way, another interesting element about the wind deflector when you put it on. raise the wind deflector, not only do you put the one on the back, there is also one that appears from the sidetop of the windshield. You can see that it rises automatically at the same time as the one behind, now you can't really see it. All very well when in the raised position, it's like this car is wearing a little wind deflector hat, but I'm told it's very effective and really helps direct the wind onto the car with the roof down, by the way, maybe you are wondering.

What that little black piece next to the wind deflector is, which is the rear parking sensors, the way it's supposed to work is you look in the rear view mirror and when you get close to something it will start to light up green , yellow and red to warn you. you're about to hit it and you're supposed to be able to see that screen in your rearview mirror because of where it's mounted. It is an interesting idea in the world of 360 cameras that this car has, but it also has them and below. my favorite piece of attention to detailIn this interior, in the infotainment system, you have this little wheel that you turn to control the infotainment system and when it gets to the end of a menu, it no longer spins so you know when the menu on the screen stopped and then I can't physically turn the steering wheel, which is a brilliant idea, probably very difficult to integrate, but they've done it here for the ultra-luxury car, and then speaking of the infotainment system, there are a couple of things interesting ones worth mentioning, one of them is this little button. to the driver's seat shown as a shaking seat, what exactly is it?

You push it and that is the massager, the seat massage and it opens the seat massage controls in the infotainment system and then from there you can control the turning on of the seat massage because Of course, you can find another interesting element in the infotainment system, this one on the gauge cluster screen, and it would be night vision. If you drive this car at night, you can't see very well, you press the night vision button on the left and a night vision screen turns on in the gauge cluster that provides unusually good visibility. I have this feature on my Mercedes-Benz and I used to use it on dark country roads at night, it's actually a pretty cool feature, although as you can see when you use it during the day it's scary, it looks like this car has walked into a movie. horror but I promise you it works in certain circumstances at night and then we move on to the rear seats of the s650 mybach and accessing them is actually quite easy you just pull this little silver lever on the side of the front seat and then The front seat automatically moves forward and into place so you can easily get into the back seat, which I will do now when you get in.

In the back of this car there are a couple of interesting elements worth mentioning, one is the fact that even the back seats have their own white carpet because even the rear passengers in a my back cabriolet are not dirty. Other items worth mentioning back here are the fact that the back seats are heated, which is really crazy because no one is going to use the back seats in an s class convertible, if you wanted to use the back seats you would have bought the sedan, but of course They're heated anyway because, well, this is a 340 grand car and that's just what you do, you also have your own Burmester center speaker back here for the rear seats and once again it's beautiful and once again it says Burmester high end just so the rear seat passengers are reminded too. that this is not just the usual Burmester sound system and another interesting element back here, mounted on the back of the front headrests, you have another Mybach logo, no one will really see this, but it is there just to remind the rear passengers again This is special and then we move on to the trunk of the s650 cabriolet.

Of course it's a power opening boot but the way you open it is brilliant, there's no normal latch here, instead you press the Mercedes-Benz logo and then it opens, it's a nifty little operation. Now when you come back here, you can see that there is a bag containing your Mybach car cover and on the bag the Mybach logo is printed. There is no shortage of reminders in this car that I don't have a normal Mercedes Benz. The other interesting thing here is this partition that you can see in the trunk. This partition is designed to give you more cargo space depending on the position of the top.

If the top is up, you can press this little one. With the button on the trunk lid, you can raise the partition and then you can store more things here, but you can't lower the top again until you lower the partition again, so if you want to carry as many things as possible in the rear of your s cabriolet you have to raise the roof, lift the partition and then you will have access to your entire cargo area; otherwise, lower the partition using the same button and then you can raise and lower the roof as you wish and then we Go to the outside of this car and I want to talk about the wheels.

These wheels are very interesting. My friends and I discuss them from time to time and they have many divided opinions. Some love them and some hate them personally. I think regardless of whether you like it or not. They certainly convey the message of this car, which is opulent wealth. I can think of few other wheel designs that so perfectly show exactly what they were going for. They work well with this car. Another thing that works well with this car is this color. a special color of my bot called cote de jour blue which is named after the côte d'azur in the south of France, the mediterranean coast.

I've been to that area several times and I have to tell you that this is exactly the car I would expect from people. drive there in exactly this color and the people who drive this car will be 300 years old and will be able to buy it from my family and then move on to the front of the mybach s650 cabriolet a couple of items worth mentioning up here one is the front signs turn signal, these are different from the turn signals on the normal s class and you can see that there are like 40 little LEDs that light up every time the turn signal flashes.

It's almost surprising to see them all light up together in unison, almost as if to say I'm spinning, I have more LEDs than you, and I'm richer than you. Another interesting element here is the front grille, which is also different from what you get on a standard S-class. You can see it's this beautiful chrome wire look grill. exclusive to the maibok models, but in case you couldn't tell it was the mybot grill, the word mybach is printed there as another reminder and finally we move under the hood on the s650 cabriolet and you can see the huge v12 under here.

This is a massive six-liter, 620-horsepower twin-turbo V12 engine. Obviously, everything is covered, but you can see how big it is. One interesting thing I think about this engine is that the V12 badge on the top almost looks fake, it looks like shitty plastic. letters you would buy at pep boys to plaster your name on the trunk of your 2003 impala. It's the tacky v12 badge you've ever seen, but the badge doesn't really matter much when you can deliver the goods and this car can By the way, it's worth the It is worth noting that this motor is incredibly quiet.

Yes, it's a 620-horsepower twin-turbo V12, but you can have it running and not even hear it. It's an incredibly quiet powertrain and you wouldn't expect anything less from ultra-luxury. convertible and those are the quirks and features of the mercedes maybach s650 cabriolet, now it's time to take it out on the road and see how well it drives driving the mybach s650 and I can already tell you that this is good, it's flexible now. I have driven this car's closest competitors, the Rolls-Royce Dawn, the Bentley Continental GTC since the beginning. I can tell you that this car has a more luxurious feel than the Bentley.

The Bentley has more precise steering than this one. It has a little more. What a sound, um, this card doesn't have the ride quality of any of those cars, the Dawn has the best ride quality in this segment, but it's also much more expensive than this one. The Dawn's starting price is about the sticker price. of this car dawns uh it's often around 400,000 with everything in them, that being said, it's not that this car has a bad ride quality, it's still one of the most luxurious cars I've ever driven, incredibly comfortable and It is something really incredible that they are able to cancel the noise from the outside world very well, considering that it is a fabric soft roof.

There should be layers and layers of soundproofing material within this ceiling. Wow, incredibly fast of course, but just like Bentley and Rolls-Royce. It doesn't accelerate in your face this car probably goes from zero to sixty-four or something like that I don't know, I haven't looked it up but it's not like some cars where it kicks you in the face it's very quiet you're very far from the road you don't feel that You go so fast you don't hear yourself going fast and then you only know because the road is coming towards you a little faster and you can look at your speedometer mainly, although I suspect the owners of this car will not fully depress the accelerator pedal.

The purpose of this car is to give you all the luxury you could need, but also the power if you want it, which is the point. Cars like this are there if you need them, but most of the time you'll just want to float effortlessly down the street and this is a great loft. I have been a big supporter of the new s-class since it arrived. in 2014-15 it's a fantastic car and this is the ultimate version this is the convertible this is the mybach this is the v12 this is now the downside of course is that if you buy this car you won't get a bentley or a rolls royce and That's what Mercedes-Benz dealers fight against and it's a tough fight when you're selling it in the same showroom as the A-Class, CLA volume cars that hit a lease price, um, it's kind of tough. to convince people, hey, you could also come here and spend 350,000, when those people could buy a Rolls or a Bentley, but I will say that in terms of a pure car, the driving experience of this vehicle, uh, and the Luxury, materials and quality are at stake. rules level at bentley and that is the mercedes-maybach s650 cabriolet, this is truly the ultimate mercedes convertible, one of the ultimate luxury convertibles of the period and if you want a car that provides effortless power and floatation and is effortlessly reminiscent of everyone else that you are better than them, this is the car and now it's time to give the s650 cabriolet a doug score, starting with the weekend categories and the styling of the s650 cabriolet is very nice, but not the most beautiful of its kind, plus there's that annoying fact that it ultimately really looks. like an S class, which it is, and gets a 7 out of 10.

Acceleration goes from 0 to 60 in 4 and a half seconds and gets a 7 out of 10. Handling is average and gets a 5 out of 10. Fun Factor is low for a v12 twin turbo car, it's fast, it's fun, but that's not really the point of the car, it's not designed for crazy fun and it gets a 5 out of 10. The cool factor is also average, these are cool, but most of people You'll just think you have an S class and it gets a 6 out of 10 for a total weekend score of 30 out of 50. Next up are the daily categories and features, this car is loaded with a lot of cool stuff and gets an 8 out of 10.

Comfort is excellent, although not quite Rolls-Royce-excellent and gets a 9 out of 10. Quality is fantastic, although long-term reliability is a fear, it still gets an 8 out of 10. Practicality It's normal for a four. two-seater convertible and finally gets a value of four out of ten and this is difficult, they are crazy, but they are cheaper than rivals from Rolls and Bentley and although the mybach s650 cabriolet will probably depreciate a lot, it may be help based on the limited production, this one gets a 6 out of 10 for a total daily score of 35 out of 50. Add it up and the score obtained is 65 out of 100, which puts it here against other convertibles and luxury cruisers, the mybach s650 cabriolet It's near the bottom, but that's only because it doesn't do well in the weekend categories, which makes sense because this is not a weekend car, yet this car has the best daily score on this list. tied with Rolls-Royce and Bentley, the s650 cabriolet is an incredible car and is the ultimate s-class