Thursday, December 30, 2010

Maybach Coupe. It's About Time!

My Maybach coupe for Bruce Wayne, not his Batman alter-ego. Please forgive the "jaggies" of this chop. I used to work at a much lower-resolution than I do today—many forums I posted at back then wouldn't accept any image larger than 800x600 pixels. I should probably revisit this chop at some point, but that list is long!

C H O P S — This is a chop I created more than four years ago, a Maybach luxury coupe of limousine proportions. The base car was Maybach's Batmobile-like Exelero concept car from 2006. I took off the rather horrid rear end, and photoshopped in contours and lights more reminiscent of the Maybach sedans for a more production look. I also smoothed out the rather, um, exhuberant side trim and details for a more low-key look. Well as low-key as a twenty-foot long luxury coupe can be, lol.

Autoblog.com jogged my memory of this chop this morning, with their post of a Maybach coupe financed by Saudi money. I rather like the shape of this new car, which is basically a coupe version of the Maybach 57 Sedan. Click over to see their article.

13 comments:

  1. One of the Saudi princess just got their hands on one, oh well!

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  2. how soon before it's yesterday's plaything? i bet it will be for sale in 5 years with 150 miles on the odometer.

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  3. I really like the side profile of your Maybach coupe. Well done. Your tailights honor the original design to a T but I personally was never sold on the reflector bar underneath the trunk lid. It would have been a cleaner design (both in original & chopped forms) without it.

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  4. CASEY I LIKE THE LINES ON THIS ONE VERY MUCH.
    TG

    GN CASEY GN EARLY

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  5. The Maybach! Thanks Casey - this was my first car I got in high school although mine was red. Ha!

    Even if I'd ever had that kind of money, I truly wouldn't spend it on a car, as much as I admire well-made cars.

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  6. this is nice, the lines are fluidic nd u did a gr8 job getting rid of the exelero's rear end.

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  7. Brian: my mouth dropped when I read your first line, lol!

    Nuhu: thanks! as soon as I saw the Exelero I knew it needed some serious editing! check out the Autoextremist this week, some of my chops made it into that awesome Detroit Auto Industry blog, bottom of the column:
    http://www.autoextremist.com/on-the-table1/

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  8. Casey, your redesign was a huge improvement!
    best regards, Jim

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  9. yep! saw the chops casey...nice work there, the buick regal nd mkl were my favourites

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  10. Thanks, Nuhu. It's such an honor to be in Peter De Lorenzo's column. He has such long-standing ties with the auto industry, it's a real treat to have my work posted there.

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