Maybach Zeppelin

The Maybach Zeppelin was the large luxury car of the Maybach company, built from 1928 to 1938 and named for the firm's Zeppelin airship engines. It weighed about 3,000 kg, enough that German drivers needed an additional goods vehicle licence, and English Wikipedia calls it Europe's joint second luxury V12 car in production, with the Avions Voisin C18, behind the Daimler Double Six. Work began in 1928 on a car called the Maybach 12, which went on sale in 1929 and was rebranded the DS7 in 1930 with a Zeppelin badge between the headlamps, although Zeppelin was never its official model name. The larger DS8 supplemented it from 1930. When DaimlerChrysler revived the Maybach brand, interest in these pre-war cars grew.