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.. meanwhile it has been a while ago, about two and a half thousand years to be precise , when a longhaired Greek sage looked with both hands over his eyes at a Roman market which was loaded with luxury goods from all over the then known world, sighed deeply and concluded with relief ; there are so many things I don’t need… The same conclusion came over me when I saw the first advertising pictures and movies in which a iron whale, dangling beneath ‘world’s biggest helicopter, flew past New Yorks’ Statue of Liberty. BMW bought ailing Rolls Royce and made it profitable again. Mercedes hastily reanimated Maybach, a car brand that by exception didn’t make a fortune by colloborating with the Nazis. This version of a Maybach is de facto a Mercedes S. With a elongated and different styled body according to the lid-and-buttercup principle; a standard frame and standard parts who are hidden by a different coachwork which carries a illustrious name from the past. And all with a price that’s four times the standard one ..