Why Mercedes-Benz builds the Maybach GLS600 in Alabama
Mercedes-Benz Mercedes' ultra-luxurious Mercedes-Maybach GLS600 is built not in Germany, but in Vance, Alabama. The factory in Alabama is the brand's only non-union plant. Alabama directly sponsors specific and ongoing job training to ensure its workers are up to the job. The new Mercedes-Maybach GLS600 is an exercise in profligacy, rimed in chrome, Napa leather, and two-tone paint. It has an exclusive perfume, atomized through its ventilation system. It can be ordered with a champagne fridge, and silver flutes. But this ultra-luxury SUV, which starts at $160,0...