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57, we can forgive a little rounding up. At 224.4 inches, the Vision 6 is exactly as long as a Chevy Suburban. It’s wider, at 82.7 inches, but at 52.3 inches, it’s about 1.5 inches taller than a Porsche 911. The wheels that hide behind body-colored aerodynamic shields are 24 inches in diameter and carry Mercedes tri-stars in their centers.

The Maybach grille stands thigh high, with chrome blades like a bread slicer’s, ready to julienne pedestrians’ legs. There’s more chrome, of course, tracing the edge of the front splitter, along the rocker panels, and around the windows. A spear of metal emblazoned with the car’s full name breaks up the vastness and rigorously pared-down surfacing of each body side while obscuring the gullwing doors.

Yes, it has this distinctive bit of Mercedes character, because the first word in Maybach is actually Mercedes. But no shiny bits do as much to proclaim the superiority of the driver as the twin chrome strips that extend from the front edge of the hood back almost to the taillights. With a curve only slightly greater than the horizon and nearly as long, these thin, taut character lines give Maybach’s leviathan an energy missing from most land yachts.

When he describes the Maybach concept as “exaggerated,” Mercedes design chief Gorden Wagener is not exaggerating. At least not until he says, “It’s not so far out there.” P O W E R T R A I N

Speaking of energy, the Vision 6 is an electric car. Why? Perhaps because Pebble Beach is in Tesla Country. Better to ask why, if it is electric, does it need a hood the size of a CEO’s conference table? What’s actually under there besides fitted luggage?

Since the Vision 6 is only a model, its power source could have been anything—solar, Soylent Green, a decommissioned Russian nuclear reactor. This makes the somewhat conservative choice rather underwhelming: A permanent-magnet AC motor is mounted at each corner to provide all-wheel drive and deliver a combined 738 horsepower. It’s underwhelming, but also convenient. The SLS AMG Electric Drive used the same setup. Mercedes says that’s sufficient for the Vision 6 to do zero to 62 mph in less than four seconds and hit a top speed governed at 155 mph. Range is