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2005 Maybach Exelero


 
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Just imagine an automobile that combines the elegance and first-class quality of a high-end limousine with the powerful suppleness of a sports coupé. Create a vehicle in your mind’s eye which, with an unladen weight of over 2.66 tons and the dimensions of a small transporter, achieves a maximum speed of over 350 km/h. Conceive an ultra-high performance tire which not only copes with the aforementioned weight, the dimensions and the speed, but also makes the automobile safe, stable and comfortable. Such a vehicle and such tires do not exist? Now they do.


For 99 years, Fulda has been making car tires. For most of this time, the company has advertised its products with special vehicles. Luxury buses, advertising vehicles with special bodies, high-speed buses for tire tests, a whole series of showtrucks, racing cars and - in the 1930s something quite special - streamlined car from the Maybach company which could conduct tire tests at speeds of over 200 km/h.

Unfortunately, not for too long, because the test car designed in 1938 and delivered in 1939 disappeared during the war years and never reappeared again.

66 years later: Fulda is introducing a new sophisticated high-tech tire to the market. For the most extreme dimension of this tire line, 315/25 ZR 23, licensed for speeds of more than 350 km/h, and that as a series tire, not a racing tire, what was needed was a high-speed vehicle but not a racing car. A few years ago, one the most exclusive German automobile makes was revived, why not organize a joint project together once again, just like in the old days?

Cooperating with Maybach


The contacts were made and thanks to René Staud, a world-class photographer of automobiles and an outstanding "networker" of DaimlerChrysler and Fulda Reifen, they were purposefully and effectively developed. Following several coordinating discussions with Leon Hustinx, Maybach’s manager, agreement was reached: Maybach would build a car for Fulda. Objective: to position the vehicle as an impressive ambassador for the new ultra-high performance tire generation Exelero. An indispensable helper in the boat with the project partners: two professors and four students from Pforzheim Polytechnic’s Dpartment of Transport Design. Together with the design professionals from DaimlerChrysler, under the direction of Professor Harald Leschke, the team went to work and after three-quarters of a year of promising design proposals, it was decided to realize the outline of the student Fredrik Burchhardt. He succeded in producing the most elegant symbiosis of design elements of former and present vehicle generations.

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The model phase starts



7 comments: Maybach Exelero


Andy_Driscoll (494)
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02.22.2012 @ 01:41
This Exelero was excellently-made. The speed was a raging 218mph and very powerful at 700hp. The creative exterior was superb. This was totally outraging.

timmyroberts (321)
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02.20.2012 @ 05:19
It looks like a limousine. It was luxurious and very elegant. This has a powerful 218mph. It was a boosting speed that possesses this car.

dan_denisson (160)
Posted on
07.28.2010 @ 18:33
Both the exterior and interior looks simple.

rogermanalac (780)
Posted on
03.7.2010 @ 20:19
well of course More will vote for the GT-R due to it’s price but we all know that the Ferrari has the finest leather and materials available.

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Qero (6682) - Posted on 10.3.2006
Hi i am an albaner and this is the best car all the times i think thats wery beutifoul, i doesn’t have money to bye but i hope that you can give me one of this modell car thanx

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MaxPower (6682) - Posted on 02.8.2006
i just finish reading the post. this is a state of the art engineering. thanks for the article

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MaxPower (6682) - Posted on 02.8.2006
I just saw this car and i can’t believe the design. Thumbs up for this amazing car

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Year:2005
Horsepower @ RPM:700@5000
Torque @ RPM:250
Displacement:5908 L
Curb Weight:5959 lbs.
0-60 time:4.4 sec.
Top Speed:218 mph


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