Maison 68 of 100 · Automotive
Mercedes-Maybach
The reading
The name that means the seat behind the chauffeur. Not a separate factory so much as a finishing language applied to Mercedes architecture. China is the commercial centre of gravity.
The house
- Origin
- Germany
- Founded
- 2002 Maybach 1909; Mercedes-Maybach 2002
- Atelier
- Automotive
- Ownership
- Mercedes-Benz Group
- Signature
- S-Class Maybach / GLS Maybach
- Register note
- Pullman & S-Class ceiling This line is the register’s own characterisation, not a sourced figure; see Méthode.
How the register places it
By founding year it is the 94th-oldest of the hundred. Counted inside its own room it stands 10th of the fifteen houses this register files under Automotive. It is one of four maisons filed here from Germany, level with Japan as the sixth-largest national group in the register. No other house in this register sits under Mercedes-Benz Group. Germany is No. 3 of the hundred economies in this register's atlas, at $5.45T — International Monetary Fund, World Economic Outlook database, April 2026. Its rank puts it in the third quarter of the hundred.