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Car Forum / Mercedes-Benz Cars / September 2005Maybach Pictures
Maybach 57 Maybach 62 Maybach Cabrio http://www.geocities.com/pors288/may.html I wonder who cut the roof off, at what price... DAS For direct contact replace nospam with schmetterling --- > Maybach 57 > Maybach 62 > Maybach Cabrio > > http://www.geocities.com/pors288/may.html I was wondering if it was fake. It seems kind of blurry. . > I wonder who cut the roof off, at what price... ... and couple doors too. Reg: Harri I had a look on Juergen's website (MBSPY), but there is no mention of a Maybach cabrio. Here is a 4-door job http://forums.autoweek.com/thread.jspa?forumID=13&threadID=14844 http://www.motorlegend.com/actualite-automobile/breve.php?id=652&actualite=Une+M aybach+cabriolet The best 'real' ref I found was a rumour of a cabrio (scroll down): http://www.channel4.com/4car/future-models/2006-4.html An aside: http://www.germancarfans.com/news.cfm/newsid/2050912.008 VW hard-top convertible. Actually Karmann developed a CLK-sized 4-seater years ago and offered it to various other car manufacturers. No takers. And they decided not to go into their pwn production for startegic reasons. DAS For direct contact replace nospam with schmetterling --- [...] > ... and couple doors too. > > Reg: Harri "Dori A Schmetterling" <ng@nospam.co.uk> haute in die Tasten: > Actually Karmann developed a CLK-sized 4-seater > years ago and offered it to various other car manufacturers. No > takers. And they decided not to go into their pwn production for > startegic reasons. There are various manufacturers which make a business by building convertibles or other body modifications from existing cars. It is essential for them to achieve cooperations with the car manufacturers, because this enables them to sell their cars over the dealers network with full service support and factory warranty. Besides this the convertible makers get half assembled cars from the manufacturer - otherwise a CLK convertible (made by Karmann) would cost about four times as much as a C-class made by Mercedes. Those special assemblers frequently develop prototypes and dream cars in order to demonstrate technical innovations, to retrieve customer opinions and to impress car manufacturers;-) Companies which come into my mind are: Karmann (CLK convertible, Renault Convertible and many others), Webasto (developed the SLK foldable metal roof), Heuliez (Peugeot 206 CC, Peugeot 307 CC, Opel Tigra TwinTop) and Bertone (various Fiat and Opel convertibles). Frank  Signatureplease replace spam-muelleimer with fk-newsgroups for e-mail contact Citroen - Made in Trance To clarify, Karmann developed a 4-seater HARD-top convertible. http://www.karmann.com/__C1256DF700512B86.nsf/html/en_699a22f14c88e954c1256dcf00 537fdd.html Click prototypes 1991 - 2000 and see the bottom one, Karmann-Coupe You surprised me with your comment about the SLK being developed by Webasto, as I thought it was also Karmann, which made me look at the website: http://www.karmann.com/__C1256DF700512B86.nsf/html/en_a6ae900191216561c1256dc500 3287fb.html Click 1990 to 2000... The Webasto website does not show the SLK, though it may not give a full list of roof systems being delivered: http://www.webasto.com/products/en/3119_3326.html I also must -- apparently -- disagree with you about the degree of construction by Karmann in the CLK case, which is fully assembled by Karmann. The fact that you can do a 'factory collection' from Bremen of a CLK is just good PR. Well, to be precise, you MIGHT get a Bremen-assembled car now, too, because some production was moved there from Osnabrueck because Bremen was running at under capacity (I think this started with the new CLK). Awaiting your comments..;-) DAS For direct contact replace nospam with schmetterling --- [...] > There are various manufacturers which make a business by building > convertibles or other body modifications from existing cars. It is [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > > Frank "Dori A Schmetterling" <ng@nospam.co.uk> haute in die Tasten: > Awaiting your comments..;-) Oops. I thought the SLK was made in Bremen. Actually Websto developed the multipart sliding roof for the A-class, as well as the sliding roof for the Porsche Targa. Most current BMW convertible roofs seem to come from Edscha (www.edscha.de). In the 80's and 90's Porsche had a cooperation with ASC for the 944 cabrio. Actually I do not know who makes the convertible roofs for the contemporary 993 models, but I doubt that Porsche himself does the job.. I did not know that Karmann also assembled a part of the CLK coupé. Anyway, I hope they did a better job with your CLK than they did with my Renault 19 cabrio, which was a POS;-) Frank Signatureplease replace spam-muelleimer with fk-newsgroups for e-mail contact Citroen - Made in Trance Frank Karmann was also involved in the A-Class convertible - prototype development: http://www.karmann.com/__C1256DF700512B86.nsf/html/en_699a22f14c88e954c1256dcf00 537fdd.html Click prototypes 1991 - 2000. I am pretty satisfied with my CLK Cab (W208). The engineering is provided by the client. Typically Karmann produces about 100 000 cars a year, not a small number. Of course this can fluctuate dramatically as they gain or lose clients. DAS For direct contact replace nospam with schmetterling --- [...] > Oops. I thought the SLK was made in Bremen. Actually Websto developed > the multipart sliding roof for the A-class, as well as the sliding [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > Frank |
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