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Report: One-off Mercedes 500K barn find discovered in South Central, LA salvage yard

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Filed under: Classics , Coupe , Etc. , Mercedes-Benz , Specialty Being agriculturally inclined to build barns in the country, we don’t expect barn finds to turn up in the middle of a high-turnover metropolis. Yet that’s been happening more regularly of late, and writer Michael Mraz has found another example in South Central, Los Angeles: a one-of-one Mercedes-Benz 1935 Caracciola 500K built especially for Silver Arrows race driver Rudolph Caraccioloa. It is pictured above in better days, after having been restored and displayed on the lawn at the Pebble Beach concours in the late 1970s.

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Report: One-off Mercedes 550K barn find discovered in South Central, LA salvage yard

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Filed under: Classics , Coupe , Etc. , Mercedes-Benz , Specialty Being agriculturally inclined to build barns in the country, we don’t expect barn finds to turn up in the middle of a high-turnover metropolis. Yet that’s been happening more regularly of late, and writer Michael Mraz has found another example in South Central, Los Angeles: a one-of-one Mercedes-Benz 1935 Caracciola 500K built especially for Silver Arrows race driver Rudolph Caraccioloa. It is pictured above in better days, after having been restored and displayed on the lawn at the Pebble Beach concours in the late 1970s

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Bentley to court celebs upon Maybach demise

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Celebrity clientele of the Maybach brand are set to be courted by Bentley as the ultra-luxury car brand owned by Daimler AG gets ready to close shop.

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Report: Bentley courting Maybach celebs with letter-writing campaign

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Filed under: Marketing/Advertising , Bentley , Maybach , Mercedes-Benz , Celebrities , Luxury When Daimler let slip that Maybach was on the chopping block, the German automaker reportedly insisted that ultra-luxury editions of the Mercedes-Benz S-Class would replace the doomed marque. We’re all for a smattering of low volume, seriously pricey S-Class variants, but will the richest and most influential Maybach buyers feel the same way? Automotive News reports that Bentley is betting that stars like Jay-Z and Samuel L.

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Official: Daimler increases prices on 2012 Maybach models

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Filed under: Sedan , Maybach , Luxury That Daimler can’t sell enough Maybach superluxury sedans to justify the brand’s existence is the worst-kept secret in the entire automotive industry. The numbers don’t really make a dent in what its competitors sell, and they are but a drop in the bucket of what the company moves as a whole. That’s what’s prompted Daimler to seek out more cost-effective alternatives to the current Maybach line, and what’s reportedly forced them to move to shutter the brand in the near future . So you’d think that the prices on buying a new Maybach would be dropping considerably as a result

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Maybach Xenatec 57S Coupe – start, rev, drive [video]

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The company Xenatec, maker of the Maybach 57S Coupe conversion called Cruisero, might be bankrupt according to reports, but that's not to stop us from appreciating their creation.

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