Maybach W5 SG

The Maybach W 5 SG was the 1928 development of the Maybach W 5, the passenger car that Maybach-Motorenbau of Friedrichshafen sold as the Type 27/120 PS. The letters SG stand for Schnellgang, a gearbox with a fast top gear, and the factory model list gives the W 5 SG as a car in its own right, built from 1928 to 1929. The Wilhelm and Karl Maybach Foundation describes the W 5 and W 5 SG as a fast touring car of the Golden Twenties with a 120 horsepower engine and says the SG carried a user-friendly Maybach high-speed gearbox. German Wikipedia counts about 300 cars for the W 5 including the SG, so the SG has no production figure of its own. As with other Maybach cars of its day the factory delivered a chassis and each buyer ordered the body from a coachbuilder.