2026 Mercedes-Maybach S680 Walkaround | Highest Level Luxury!

Well it's a modern world and as a captain of industry you might need something a little bit more special than your everyday car. Well luckily as your industry evolves into crypto and AI so does the Mercedes-Maybach. This is the new 2026 updated Mercedes-Maybach S-Class. The updated Mercedes-Benz S680 Maybach limousine is powered by a refreshed 4 litre twin-turbo V8 petrol engine with 450 kilowatts and 850 newton meter output. There's a 76 litre petrol tank which would cost about $225 to fill with 98 and a fuel consumption of 11 litres per 100 kilometres. It has all-wheel drive, all-wheel steering, seating for four, you can have five but really who wants to sit next to someone in this car, and you can whisk yourself to your next corporate takeover from zero to 100 kilometres an hour in just four seconds. Pricing hasn't been announced yet but the pre-update W223 S680 Maybach started at $576,600 for options and on-road costs and the new one, well depending on your spec, just assume it goes up from there. So how does the Maybach differ from a regular S-Class? Well for a start you let everybody know that you are driving the best of the best because this really is a step up. You have a nice illuminated Maybach lettering on the grille here which is now larger than it used to be. The Mercedes-Benz star lights up as well but you have this beautiful chrome ridgeline onto the bonnet where I'll share in a second what hides beneath. The car is available with the two-tone paint job and you can see here this is pure paint. The car is the silver grey colour underneath, the opaline white is added as a second layer. The stripe that you can see down the side takes days to paint on properly so a very impressive thing. At the front while we're here and if you are counting, you've got Maybach logos here on the lower air dams. There are 64 Maybach logos on the exterior of this car alone. You've got new headlamps here which now feature the Mercedes-Benz star as part of the illumination element but there are rose gold accents and again more Maybach logos put in there and of course this is the pinnacle of Mercedes-Benz technology so you have adaptive LED and very intelligent lighting at the front of the car. Now under that bonnet is the new M177 Evo engine so this is the 4.0 litre twin turbo V8 that has now been heavily revised for this car and for the S Class range. You've got more power, more torque, it's now running a flat plane crank, not for better performance but for more smoothness because well when you're a passenger in the back of this thing, you want that limousine ride everywhere you go. Now rear quarter, more illuminated logos, it is the thing. The size of this car really is something to behold so this is the third length of the new S Class. You have a regular S Class, you have a long wheelbase S Class and then you have the Maybach S Class. It is 18 centimetres longer than a long wheelbase Mercedes-Benz S Class and all of that translates to interior room. Now for Maybach trivia fans out there, the new car is actually shorter than both the 2010 Maybach 57 and 62 but it does have a longer wheelbase than the 57. It's worth noting that the Maybach 62 offered a 3,827 millimetre gap between the wheels. That's longer than an entire Suzuki Jimny. While we are looking at the side, it's kind of cool to see a couple of things. You've got the illuminated welcome carpet that shows a Maybach logo on the ground there but these wheels are a forged alloy wheel for the first time that now has centering Mercedes-Benz stars. So as you roll along that star always points up and that's what you want. Now I could step behind the wheel and tell you what it's like to be the driver but I'm not going to be the driver. You're not going to be the driver. Let's get in the back because that's where the real magic happens. First of all, why close your own door when a touch of a button it will close for you. Perfect. Now while we're here, this is probably the most comfortable way to roll around the countryside that you could ever imagine. As I sit back, I am six foot four and I am swimming in legroom back here. I actually can barely reach the front of that passenger seat there. There's even a footrest for me should I need that. You've got all the mod cons. You've got heating, ventilation, massage. You've got obviously the Maybach pillows and the goose down head pillows to stay even more comfortable. But what do you say? You want even more? Well, at the touch of a button you can open up this panel here and you've got heating and cooling controls. You've got regular cup holders and you have a pair of very special cup holders for two very special cups because behind me you have Maybach champagne flutes that will click in here and secure for your journey ahead. Also between the seats is a cubby here that has a fridge. So if you've got some aged Krug to celebrate your latest business acquisition, what a perfect place to have it. Now of course this car gets all of the tech upgrades that we've seen in the new Mercedes-Benz S-Class as well. You've got the little remote media activations that look like a smaller iPhone that you can use to control the car's infotainment system. This has got the updated MBOS operating system inside. So if you are going to be a driver you do get all the latest technology. But really when you're back here it's not about that. It's about how this car sort of says things about you and you can probably see this brown interior. It's called Beach Brown and it's a new color for the Maybach and you can see that it is everywhere. It's in the carpets, it's in the seat rails, it's in the lower and upper door trims. Basically the sky's the limit with what you have here. The colors that are available are not really limited to what's in the brochure. If you go to your Mercedes-Benz or Maybach dealer and say that this is I'd like green with white stitching or I'd like my family crest embroidered or I'd like some specific combination of colors, you can get all of that done to your exacting specification. And I think it's that level of opulent personalization that really does set this car above not just a regular S-Class but pretty much everything else on the road. Up front your driver scores plush seating with all the heating, cooling and massage amenity they could want. Technology comes by way of the 14.4 inch central super screen. Flanked on either side by a pair of 12.3 inch screens, one for the driver and passenger, all neatly covered by a single pane of glass. Like the new S-Class, the S680 Maybach runs on the new MBOS operating system for even more communication, entertainment and convenience tech at your fingertips. So James you're saying you know I've had a great success on some crypto coin or new AI kind of business venture. One of these is going to be in my driveway before the year is out. How much is it going to cost me? Well the thing is I could give you a list price but it doesn't really matter because no matter how you personalize your Maybach it changes the price of what that transaction is going to be. So it really is a case of if you have to ask it's probably not the car for you. However to know that you can go completely custom on what you want from upper and lower paint from interior leather choices including a vegan option, what stitching, what contrast you want, kind of makes it a sky's the limit car to really show that it is worth putting a little bit of effort at work to become a proper captain of industry so that you can choose your personal Maybach to be exactly the way that you want it. Now of course if you've got any more questions about the new Mercedes Maybach S-Class or the regular Mercedes-Benz S-Class hit us up at drive.com.au. We've got photos, we've got news stories, we've got all the details that you could need. If you've got any questions about this car ask us in the comments below and in the meantime tell me what would be your colour choice. Are you going to go with the greeny silver over white with brown or are you going to go for something a little bit different? There is a night package that you can get which blacks out components. Personally I think you're better off going for a bit more chrome and opulence just to remind everybody that you're the most important person in the room.