[s-cars] Maybach mayhem...

[Krasusky Paul (WQQ2PXK)]

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OK, so it's NAC, but hey, I know more than a few of you here care about
these specs and the ensuing insanity.  How could a car nut not?  Basically,
last week or so I posted a (bum) link about this Maybach event I somehow got
invited to, and here's the trip report.  I'm forever a changed person, this
much I tell you.

Why?  Highlights of its outrageousness:

-5.5L twin turbo liquid-to-air intercooled twinspark V12, 18 psi boost
-543 hp @ 5,250 rpm
-664(!!!) lb/ft tq. @ 2,300 rpm, 460 yeowsers @ 1,500
-6,000 / 6,250 lbs. (model 57 / 62...  each car's overall length in meters,
respectively, 5.7 and 6.2)
-0-60 4.9(!!!) / 5.2 secs (57 / 62)
-1/4 mile @ ~ 13.5(!!!) secs
-DUAL 4 pot Brembo calipers up front, 4 pot caliper rear, 14.9" rotors.
Yes, dual 4 pot calipers.  Per front wheel.  WTF!
-brakes skim rotors when wipers are on to remove water film
-double redundant hydraulic brake system, with electronic assist
-350 amp liquid cooled alternator
-dual a/c systems, compressors and all
-1,000 per annum, 400 to US, small fraction in US will be 62s
-Base price $308k / $360k (57/ 62), before options...  nearing $400k loaded.
Yeow.

How 'bout dem apples?  I've not even scratched the surface...

Me, my bro, and my bud Jim attended this model demo at a local airport in NY
2 Friday's back, 8/1.  Don't ask how, I still don't know.  Had we not booked
last minute, we would have arrived there with the other 15 or so prospective
purchasers on the Gulf Stream 4 jet, oh well.

Hospitality tent set up displayed a 62 that we were able to explore and
violate every orifice of.  And we did.  Catered with fresh fruit crepes
cooked to order, fruit cups, etc., top notch high class no doubt.  After the
specifications demo, we went out to the runway with three 57s and one 62 at
our disposal, to flog around an 'autocross' set up around the runways.
First was a lap with a retired IMSA GTU race driver to show us the course
and demonstrate the capability.  Then we traded seats, getting to flog them
ourselves.  First the 57, then the 62, same drill.  Un'fnreal.  Suckers.

With my bud in the back of the 62, feet reclined in the 'seat' (picture
$100k dentist chair), and the race driver next to me, I lined up facing down
the 1 mile runway.  I turned to him and said, "I'm gonna load up the turbos
a bit", teee heeee...  Full brake, 2k on the tach, let 'er RIP.  OMF'nG...
LOCOMOTIVE TORQUE.  My head hit the nubuck headrest HARD, and the thing
rocketed down the runway.  In the rain.  The 275/50/8x19 hollow spoked
wheels found ways to hook up that I don't want to know how.

Saw an EASY 115-120 before the deceleration point, slap shiftomatic down
through to 1st, cranked through the 180 degree left.  Across the rumble
strips to show it's stability, to another short straight.  Racer says "get
to 75-85, take both hands off wheel, put brake pedal through firewall"...
OOOOOOOOOKKayyyy.  Yikes does that thing stop!  He commented he'd pulled a
few passenger's eyeglasses off their face a number of times.  Whooops.
Through a 90 right, short straight, 90 left, mid speed chicane, 90 left to
the finish.  We later did back seat hot laps with the pros driving in the
62, fully reclined in the Grand Nappa wool backed seats butofcourse, daring
them to see what speed they could trap the chicane at, which was somewhere
near an ungodly 65 mph in the 20" long, three ton sloth by days end!
Unbelievable.  Was easy to monitor, from our own rear speedo and all...

This thing does things that are SO far against all of what you know the laws
of physics to be are...  it's mind bending.  It just shouldn't but does, and
does so VERY WELL.  Composed and silently, no noise at all.  Unf'nreal.  How
does one return to Plebian Existence after sampling such perfection???
Indeed, 'tis hard.

 I want one.  OK, two.  So it's more than my house is worth, so what?...

-P I need a Maybach K.
CT