Man drives 1,000,000 km in his Maybach

unkel

And it only took him just 5 years :eek:

In this period he spend over €300k in petrol alone

Article in German, couldn't find an English one, sorry!

Idbatterim

I reckon LPG would have been worth his while...

Cleveland Hot Pocket

Irish motorist:
"Would ye not have gotten the 1.5 dci?"

Ah not so great when the original engine dies after 600,000 kms. (372,000 miles.)

stimpson

At an average of 120 kph he would have spent 347 days behind the wheel!

positron

Google Traslation for the curious..

He already knows, as he tightens the car door behind him and does in Bielsko-Biala in the outer south-western Poland on the way. He knows it, it is on this day of 12 September 2009, would happen, and he knows where something like this:. In Austria It's raining like a cloudburst, as the moment is getting closer and closer. The view goes to zero, and he, Josef Weikinger is prepared.

He sits at a him only too well known place at the wheel of his car, within reach, he has placed a camera if necessary to make a souvenir photo while driving on the steering wheel. Taking a snapshot only, but that would show what would have then to never see again and will not be brought back. On State Road 33 Josef Weikinger has recently crossed the Danube and left on Highway 1 just St. Pölten behind him, as he grips the camera, with his left hand holds the control, focused by the steering wheel rim to the instruments in front of him and pushes the trigger.

No indication for the Million

Almost like a rare error code to see what the photo shows. In the central display of the speedometer are six sans serif numerals in cool green: to 999999. And while about the day counter of the Maybach 62 continues, stuck in the total display the six numbers, mile after mile, as if the big moment of the Million before. As would be what has been achieved beyond what is capture, measure, could express. As a limit would be exceeded, which separates the normal from the particular. And as if this limit is exceeded, at best, possible, but not feasible, there is for them no indication, even in this exclusive car is not.

It has a length of 6.17 meters and a weight of about 2.8 tons. It has a 5.5-liter twin-turbo twelve-cylinder with 550 hp, a panoramic glass roof, reclining seats with massage function, a refrigerator and a new price beyond the 450,000 euros. But he has no seven-digit odometer display in the speedometer, which could show how many kilometers Josef Weikinger between April 2004 and September 2009 with his Maybach has come: one million.

How and where to collect in so short a time so many kilometers? And why? A distant love? The profession? Fear of flying? "No, no," says Josef Weikinger, "no fear of flying and not a distant love., But it brings a nobody's business back home, you just have to look for. And some 100,000 kilometers in such a car, what is that?" The question is the answer.

No alternative to the Maybach

Weikinger, owner of Interfloat, the first European solar glass company, was much more even flown until it no longer hinhaute for medical reasons with the License. "But the lines were indeed the same," says Josef Weikinger, who really could not make friends with it, to fly with the line. "If you are traveling between European capitals, the fly can be ideal. But if your customers are spread across the country, if you are planning flexible and often it also luggage, whether heavy pattern or a bottle of wine, you give away, it is complicated., you are always surrounded by the noise and bustle, the new date forced and if you count all the times, you are often faster by car. "

So drove Weikinger. First, hundreds of thousands of kilometers on a Mercedes S-class, then to 2013, far more than a million with the Maybach. The reason why he kept so long because he saw no alternative. The comfort, peace, space, driving feel, the material quality - still, the interior of this car looks like new - it rapture the field of competition and let the entrepreneur from his car talking as a "living room".

167,000 liters of Super Plus

He has spent in this car-living room, how many hours? An average speed of 80 km / h as a basis set, the time can be in days, weeks, months, years even better express: 521 days, 74 weeks, 18.5 months, more than one and a half years. The logbooks takes Josef Weikinger that he had a total of 167,000 liters of Super Plus uses on his trips back and forth across the whole of Europe, from southern Portugal to far above the Arctic Circle.

Often, entries in one day 1,500 or even 2500 km. Most drives Josef Weikinger itself "I have," he says, "often fought with me. It is so nice to sit back. It can work wonderfully there, but it is so nice to drive themselves. Hover there. Accompanied by music or entertain of an audio book I could always enjoy driving in a Maybach. "

First motor holds 600,000 km

A few exceptions to this rule. After 600,000 miles the first motor gives up the ghost. "But that was not so bad, I could actually walk home from there." Two months later the transmission is in the series, the front shocks need to be replaced, and again weaves in between something electrical. "I feared the separation, because it indeed is no adequate replacement. Again I would have bought a Maybach, but he was set to yes. And I'm sorry for Mercedes and Maybach that have made the brand itself as broken . "

Since August 2013 driving a BMW 760Li Josef Weikinger instead of the million Maybach. But when he is his former car approaching again at a meeting with the current owner when he takes a seat behind the wheel and in the rear, as is noted to him that something connects it to the Maybach, which did not go with the sale to a close. But it is also something that does not is due to the number of joint kilometers. There is an impression that sets quietly, if this man and the Maybach come together: you have or not have the same class, the same format million.

positron

positron wrote: »

Google Traslation for the curious..

After 600,000 kms the engine gives up the ghost not 600,000 miles.

Eric Cartman

If ui had to do that mileage i couldnt really think of a comfier place to do it

positron

Deleted User wrote: »

After 600,000 kms the engine gives up the ghost not 600,000 miles.

Ah, looks like Google translated "km" correctly to kilometers, but "Kilometern" to miles.

munchkin_utd

unkel wrote: »

And it only took him just 5 years :eek:

In this period he spend over €300k in petrol alone

Article in German, couldn't find an English one, sorry!

Maybe he got paid by the company per km driven (possible explaination for the logbook), meaning that the maibach was paying for itsself!
If he got 80c a km, then he'd have recieved 800k in travel expenses meaning the car and fuel would work out to cost him nothing.

Well, thats ignoring servicing and engine replacement costs but either way I'm sure he can afford that too!

positron

Weikinger, owner of Interfloat, the first European solar glass company..

Own company. It says there that he flies very often too - but finds it easier to drive when he has to meet clients away from main airports, and prefers the tranquility of the car compared the noise and inconvenience of flying.

Good / bad ad for Mayback - I wouldn't have thought anyone would take a car like that for so many miles, so that's good, but I wouldn't have thought a car like that would fail at 600k km, and other issues after that too.

whomitconcerns

more than 100,000km per year.....wow....

Idbatterim

I'm assuming the new S class would be at that level of luxury and comfort and the most efficient diesel engine would cost less than one third of the cost to fuel than that 5.5L tank?

Tea 1000

Deleted User wrote: »

After 600,000 kms the engine gives up the ghost not 600,000 miles.

Still, looks like the second engine lasted 700,000 miles.

Hoagy

To keep the diesel fans happy...

Skoda Fabia

Sobanek

On its way to Poland with 100k miles on the clock

"Careful, older owner, low mileage"

Interceptor

unkel wrote: »

And it only took him just 5 years :eek:

In this period he spend over €300k in petrol alone

Article in German, couldn't find an English one, sorry!

How did you find that? g'wan admit it, you are shopping for one...

'cpt

JackF1

On the Continent it though it must be said 1,000,000km is a huge mileage (not one crash!) though it's not unusual to rack up 350-500,000km on a car if your travelling my road.
Have a look at mobile.de plenty of cars with 300km plus for sale.
The interior of that Maybach from what I can see has withstood the tests of time.

Guy:Incognito

Probably the only one of those that's owner driven.

unkel

positron wrote: »

Own company. It says there that he flies very often too - but finds it easier to drive when he has to meet clients away from main airports, and prefers the tranquility of the car compared the noise and inconvenience of flying.

I read in another article that he used to fly (himself) but that for unknown reasons his pilot's license was not renewed in '04, hence why he bought the car. I suppose a Maybach is as close to a private jet as a car comes

Interceptor wrote: »

How did you find that? g'wan admit it, you are shopping for one..

If only, 'ceptor

I do admit I have a secret hankering for a VW Phaeton, preferably the V8 petrol. Complete with Passat TDI badges