There is no higher time to announce your love for California with a brand new particular version than Monterey {Car} Week, which is precisely what Mercedes has executed by a particular version from its Maybach sub-division. In contrast to final yr’s particular version, which paid homage to the Northern Lights, this yr’s reveal, the Mercedes-Maybach S 680 Version Emerald Isle, celebrates California’s central coast. Restricted to 25 models and unique to the US market, the particular version combines Mercedes’ most luxurious badge with its most prestigious customization division, Manufaktur. Better of all, that ‘680’ designation means that is operating one thing uncommon underneath the hood, a V12 in 2025.
California’s Central Shoreline In Automotive Type
Whereas the Emerald Isle terminology could typically be used to discuss with Eire, on this context, it is a reference to California’s Central Coast area, a lush panorama from which this new particular version derives its inexperienced higher paintwork. Particularly, the Manufaktur Unique Mid Eire Inexperienced Metallic paint is alleged to be a nod to Monterey’s cypress timber, whereas the Manufaktur Moonlight White Metallic decrease paint was chosen to reference California’s white sand seashores.
The 2-tone livery is offset by chrome exterior accents – a novelty when black appears to be the order of each particular version – with 21-inch Maybach Unique Champagne Flute Multi-Spoke Cast wheels bearing a cultured end.
V12 badges on the fenders are the true trick right here, as V12 engines in something however supercars are a novelty in 2025 and make the Maybach one in every of only a handful of sedans nonetheless counting on the configuration. Sadly for the power-hungry elite, the 6.0-liter twin-turbo V12 stays untouched from its normal type, though the 621 horsepower and 664 lb-ft of torque it generates is hardly what anybody would possibly discuss with as ‘not sufficient.’
Smells Like… Californian Shoreline?
Maybach luxurious is all the time extra evident from inside the cabin, and the Version Emerald Isle is not any completely different. Hand-stitched leather-based is unique to this particular version in Manufaktur Unique Gentle Brown Nappa, discovered on each floor, whereas lush pillows adorn the seats to maintain you comfortable when you’re chauffeured alongside the Californian coast. Diamond quilting options all through, together with the central portion of the headliner, which is completed in black Nappa leather-based. The black hints are additionally present in Piano Black Lacquer trim from Manufaktur, notably between the rear seats onto the rear parcel shelf, paired with silver chrome striping. This similar detailing is utilized to the entrance seatbacks, and the piano black end additionally finds its solution to the skin fringe of the steering wheel rim.
All of those components do little to brag concerning the particular nature of the Version Emerald Isle, of which solely 25 shall be accessible, so a floral design badge bearing the phrase “Version Emerald Isle 1 of 25” is current on the entrance middle console. The same floral design adorns the door sills.
Maybach’s Government Rear Seat Bundle Plus ensures utmost consolation due to full reclination with massaging, heating, and air flow for rear seat occupants, who take pleasure in such comforts whereas sipping on champagne from their Maybach flutes, the champagne stored icy chilly by the built-in fridge. And for if you’re not in California, you’ll be able to all the time bear in mind the surroundings that evokes the particular version due to a specifically curated scent filling the cabin by the Air Stability perfume system. A collaboration with artisans, this ‘hand-poured perfume’ evokes the scents of cedar wooden, cypress, and sea salt, and the bottle during which it arrives depicts the Lone Cypress in Pebble Seashore.
The ultimate particular contact is a handcrafted reward field completed in the identical leather-based that adorns the seats. Inside is a particular holster for 2 car keys and a spare perfume bottle. Pricing is but to be introduced, however solely 25 shall be accessible, arriving at US dealerships this fall as a 2026 mannequin yr car.