The long version

Mercedes builds the Maybach on the same line as the standard S-Class, then spends the difference entirely on the rear compartment — reclining seats, four-zone climate, glass separating the driver from a cabin tuned like a private jet. Depreciation here is famously brutal, steeper than the S-Class it's based on, because buyers churn through the newest model year rather than holding one the way a Rolls-Royce owner might. That trade-off is the point: a luxury good bought to be current, not a collectible bought to be kept, and the ownership data reads exactly like that.