Mercedes's Pullman S-Class starts at 500,000 euros

Frankfurt

MERCEDES-Benz set the starting price of the Maybach Pullman S-Class at about 500,000 euros (S$775,000) as the Daimler AG division prepares to present the three-row sedan at the Geneva car show next month. The 6.5-metre vehicle is Mercedes's latest effort to win the world's wealthiest car buyers. With a chauffeur at the wheel, four passengers will be able to sit opposite each other in two executive seats and two additional fold-out seats that face backward.

Deliveries of the model, the second Mercedes to wear the Maybach badge after an S-Class with an extended wheelbase presented last year, will start in early 2016, the Stuttgart, Germany-based manufacturer said on Tuesday. "The new Mercedes-Maybach Pullman embodies the claim for highest exclusivity," Ola Kaellenius, Mercedes head of sales, said in the statement.