Lord help us, for the automotive industry has sunk to a new low. As if it wasn’t bad enough that Maybach created an ode to conspicuous consumption like the 62 Landaulet, but now Mercedes’ big, goofy brother has decided to put the thing into production.

Following a spat of rumors, Maybach initially unveiled the half limo/half convertible/half marshmallow in Dubai this past November, and then laid it on us in person at the Detroit show.

It starts with the Maybach 62 S and then peeled off half the roof like a can of sardines and slathered whitewash all over the thing.

Unfortunately, as we could see by the yellow Cayenne we showed you yesterday, money and taste don’t always go together, and Daimler seems content to separate the former from those who don’t have the latter. Read more »

The rumors, the announcement, the official photos … none of it was enough to believe a once sensible company like Daimler-Benz could have created something so outrageously, ridiculously impractical as a six-figure, all-white, high-performance, partial-convertible, super-luxury limousine.

Seeing it on video doesn’t quite make it believable either. (It’s kinda like the Moon Landing to conspiracy theorists that way).

But short of seeing it up close and in person - which we hope won’t be necessary - this is just about as close as we’d want to get. Okay, we believe, we believe. Just make it stop. Read more »