The Maybach is the S-Class taken as far as it goes: a longer rear cabin, seats that recline into beds, a stillness that makes the Expressway feel like a corridor. It is the car the house proposes for a guest of state, a chairman who wants to work and then sleep, a bride who would rather a Mercedes than a Rolls-Royce — and it is the car the house can most often find when a date is close.
Two in the rear in the finest seats Mercedes makes, reclining fully; the house advises two, and nothing else on the rear seat. Your sarathi in front beside the car's chauffeur.
Two large cases and two cabin bags.
A guest of state from the airport; a wedding entry in a Mercedes; a long evening; a journey to Pune that should be slept through.
A current Maybach S-Class, in the two-tone or the single colour you ask for where it can be had, confirmed with photographs before anything is held. Cooled before you reach it; water, charging and an umbrella in the door; no fragrance; your music if you want it and silence if you do not.
By arrangement is the house's phrase for a car it does not keep on call and will not pretend to. Thirty days lets the house find the right one, see its registration, its insurance and the permission that lets it carry a guest that day, meet the chauffeur who comes with it, and send you photographs of the exact car before anything is held. A deposit holds the car; the balance is settled seventy-two hours before the journey, as set out in your written confirmation. Your sarathi rides with you; the car's own chauffeur drives.
Written for the occasion — the car, its chauffeur, your sarathi, fuel, tolls, parking and GST in one line — once the house has found the car and seen it. There is no rate card for a car like this, because the day and the car decide; what is written does not move. If thirty days is not what you have, say so: the house tells you plainly what is possible, and never sends something else and hopes.
Tell the house what you have in mind and when. Where the car cannot be found in time, the house says so at once and proposes the nearest thing it can stand behind — an S-Class, written as a Marque car, where a Maybach cannot be had — written at the Marque figure, with the same sarathi and the same care.
Ask the house for the MaybachChoose Marque, name the car, give the date. The house replies in writing.