So Maybach continues to work on its identity crisis. You know, the one its 63-year absence in the market, beginning in 1939, created, and which the Maybach-like 2007 Mercedes-Benz S-Class has fostered. No one mistakes Rolls-Royce Phantoms or Bentley Continentals for anything else.
Maybach's latest therapy comes in the form of a sport package, of sorts, although it's not badged an AMG model. It pins a unique nose on the short-wheelbase 57 model and adds 62 horses, 20-inch 11-spoke wheels, 0.6-inch-lower ride height, thicker anti-roll bars, and a stiffened Airmatic suspension. The 57 S also has a perforated leather steering wheel, "piano black" and carbon-fiber interior accents, available Vesuvius black or Aspen white super-supple leather seats with decorative piping, and body-color panels in the headlamps' background. The car's headliner and interior side paneling is anthracite-colored Alcantara to complement the piano black and carbon-fiber trim...
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