If you were wondering what the top-of-the-line Mercedes is, you’re looking at it: The 2022 Mercedes-Maybach S 680 4MATIC Sedan. If this ride is missing anything, it’s a lightweight body and an affordable price tag. Other than that, this boat is loaded to the gunwales with tech, luxury, and safety gear in a way that only German engineers could pull off.

Enter The Mercedes-Maybach S 680 4MATIC

Really, at this point, my main question is how much further can we go" High-end luxury carmakers – like Mercedes-Maybach, Rolls Royce, Bentley, Bugatti, and such – already pack their vehicles full of the aforementioned tech, luxury, and safety gear. And their in-house custom departments offer a fairly wide range of dressings and trims and other bespoke treatments. But it seems to me that eventually, some oil-soaked oligarch will peruse the custom offerings and say, “Nope, that’s too ‘off the rack’ for me!” 
I wouldn’t be surprised if we’re not too far away from the rebirth of specialized carrozzeria. People will buy the running gear and chassis from Mercedes, BMW (Rolls), and Bentley (VW), and then have bodies made and trimmed to their exacting (and expensive) demands. It will be just like a century ago where someone like Henry Flagler would buy the chassis and engine from Duesenberg then have Fisher make the rest.

But here we are now in 2021, and, for all intents and purposes, the height of&nbs...