Here's How The Maybach Ultimate Luxury Concept Looks As A 'Normal' SUV

The lengthily-titled Vision Mercedes-Maybach Ultimate Luxury concept raised a few eyebrows at the Beijing Motor Show. Sure, Bentley has a luxo-barge SUV and Rolls-Royce has one on the way, so you can’t blame Mercedes for wanting to get in on the action with its Maybach brand. But the concept the firm used to preview its future high-riding chariot for rich people was just a bit weird.

Yes, it’s an SUV, but it also has some saloon-like proportions. It’s as though the designer looked at the Volvo S60 Cross Country and thought “yes, what a brilliant idea!” For good measure, it also had a retro-style split rear windscreen.

Mercedes is indeed looking to build a Maybach production car that takes some styling cues from the concept, but we’d be very surprised if the whole saloon/SUV mash-up thing is carried over. So how would the show car look? That’s where Peisert Design comes in.

The Photoshop pro has past credits including an amazing imaginary Maserati MC12 successor and a digitally-created Audi ‘RS8’, and now he’s turned his attention to the Beijing Maybach concept. Combining it with what looks to be part of the GLC-Class (the production Ultimate Luxury is expected to sit on the GLC platform, incidentally), he’s turned it into a ‘normal’ SUV.

What do you think?