Maybach Exelero

The Maybach Exelero is a one-off high-performance sports car unveiled in Berlin in 2005. It was built by Stola in collaboration with DaimlerChrysler and commissioned by Fulda, the German tyre arm of Goodyear, as a show car to test its Carat Exelero tyres, which required a top speed above 350 km/h. The brief drew on the 1938 Maybach SW 38 and used the platform of the Maybach 57, and the final shape came from four students of the Transportation Design School at Pforzheim University of Applied Sciences. A twin turbo V12 from Maybach produces 515 kW and is mated to an automatic transmission. It rides on 23 inch wheels and now sits in a German museum collection.