Mercedes-Maybach

The Mercedes-Maybach S 650 Night Edition is here, and you can't have one. Only 15 of these ultra-exclusive luxury sedans will be built, with nice wheels, new badges, a few carbon accents and the most comically tiny spoiler you ever did see.

Pop off that top hat, your highness, you can leave the monocle on, and sink into the reclining, buttock-aspirating back seats of an ultra-luxury SUV that aims to equal or beat the Rollers and Bentleys on their own turf.

Mercedes-Benz has unveiled a new Maybach edition of the S-Class as a half-car, half-sport utility crossover. The vehicle is exclusively high end and aims to combine the strengths of both body styles. Mercedes (wrongfully) claims this is a first-of-its-kind vehicle.

New S-Class Maybachs will soon get an impressive intelligent headlight upgrade. Digital Light puts a million pixels of resolution into each headlight, and works with the car's sensors and computers to display a bunch of driver-assist information right there on the road in front of you.

Good corporate citizenship is becoming an important factor in the annual report and this is now evident on the auction block where the additional value of milestone models is being retained for the benefit of charity, while creating value to the donating company via advanced public relations.

This year, we saw the redesign of one of the world's 4x4 icons, the spread of electric powertrain tech to the trail, all-new racing machines, and a few toys that could lure even the most stubborn homebody into the backcountry. Here we look back at our favorite fun, capable off-roaders of 2017.

After covering major international auto shows throughout 2017, we've seen a lot of concept cars. Our favorites of 2017 include past icons reinvented as vehicles of the future, electrifying ultra-premiums, hard-to-define segment-benders and utterly insane hypercars.

One of the 99 cars produced​, this Maybach G650 Landaulet is to be auctioned for charity. The other 98 sold new for $900,000 ​in March 2017, and the Laureus Landaulet is expected to fetch over a million dollars when the hammer falls on October 6.

In many ways, the 2017 Vision Mercedes-Maybach 6 Cabriolet is a continuation concept, taking last year's Vision Mercedes-Maybach 6 Coupé and removing the top.​ But it is so much more than that, thanks largely to the spectacular interior.

At this year's Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance, Infiniti plans to walk the line between classic and modern, presenting a vintage race car with electric technology and modern design language. The prototype open-top racer will be joined by concept debuts from other luxury automakers.

When it came time for Mercedes to create its latest Maybach model, it had a few options. Having transformed the S600 and S650 Cabriolet, it would have made sense to move onto the S-Class Coupe, but sometimes the world doesn't make sense. Need proof? Just take one look at the Maybach G650 Landaulet.

Maybach offers a range of gloriously overblown limos spearheaded by the long wheelbase S660 Pullman. The lineup even caters to sunlight loving billionaires – at least it does now, with the launch of the Mercedes-Maybach S650 Cabriolet in LA.