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Maybach: Wealth and Excess? No, the Maybach is a car with understatement.

Sources? Anyone? No?! Oh, well... then it's opinion unfit for WP. Regards, Signature ^brendel 22:27, 9 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Discontinuation[edit]

The Century has disappeared from Toyota's Japanese website. Does anybody know if it has been discontinued? Stepho talk 23:40, 16 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Responding to myself 6 years later, the Century is now back on line at https://toyota.jp/century/ and probably has been for quite a while. Stepho talk 01:04, 19 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Who are its peers?[edit]

@Stepho-wrs: Do you know how much Rolls-Royce and moreover the old Maybach cost? --Yomal Sidoroff-Biarmskii (talk) 21:37, 5 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Here's a nice quote for you "Toyota announced this week that the 2018 Century will set buyers back a cool ¥19.6 million, or about $180,000 at today's exchange rate. That's a bit more than you'd spend on a Mercedes-Maybach S-Class limousine, but it's staggeringly cheaper than either Rolls-Royce sedan, the cheaper of which starts around $300,000." - https://www.cnet.com/toyota-century/ All 3 cars mentioned in the same paragraph by a respected car magazine. Stepho talk 23:22, 5 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Lede image[edit]

WP:CARPIX says that no particular model is favoured over any other. So it is not necessary to use to the latest model. Neither is it ruled out. However, the image Wikiuser100 has selected does not show the shape (old or new) as well as the old image. Note also that if we can't come to a consensus then the old image will be restored according to the guideline at WP:BRD. Stepho talk 22:20, 27 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Source for "Empress"?[edit]

What is the basis of translating 皇 as "empress"? The character is unequivocally male (emperor) in Japanese, while Empress would be 皇后. If there's no official translation, I'd suggest glossing 皇1 as "Imperial 1". Jpatokal (talk) 04:19, 16 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I've update the article to use "Imperial" instead. Jpatokal (talk) 08:54, 21 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I did some searching a few days back and found both male and female forms in English news articles. So "imperial" sounds reasonable. Thanks. Stepho talk 09:31, 21 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]