LET’S FACE IT. THE AUTOMOTIVE WORLD HAS MOVED FORWARD a whole lot over the past decade, let alone the past century. Mercedes and, indeed, Maybach have both been around for longer than that and have created some fine automobiles for over a hundred years. The first iteration by Maybach Motorenbau in 1921, Model W 3, was dedicated to maximum comfort and luxury. It had a 70-hp in-line six-cylinder engine and achieved 110 km/h. What followed in 1929 was the Maybach Model 12. The flagship, produced from 1930 as the Maybach Zeppelin, was the first production car with a V12 engine to be manufactured in Germany. Step up to the present and we have this X223 Maybach S 580 with a 503-hp twin-turbo V8 and 48-volt mild-hybrid system that can get from zero to 100 km/h in 4.8 seconds and tops out at an electronically governed
