-The opening of the press release for the new S-class cabriolet reads, “After 44 years we can again offer friends of our company an open variant of the S-class. The new S-class cabriolet symbolizes our passion for individual and timelessly exclusive mobility, which we share with our customers.” The statement’s attributed to Daimler board member Ola Källenius, but we imagine in it printed up in some ’60s-swank typeface in a dusty back issue of Sunset magazine. To the Germans, German-ness is a virtue. And little in the automotive world has been as relentlessly German over the past five decades as the Sonderklasse automobiles. And now, to go along with the sedan; the coupe; the long ’n’ luxe Maybach; and the longer, luxer Maybach Pullman, we have the S-class cabriolet. READ MORE ››
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