And there’s the Landaulet or Landaulette, which came all the way from Landau town in Germany. Its major feature was a folding top only at the rear area to provide a cover for the passengers. Ooppps, poor coachman! Imagine driving the vehicle on a scorching summer day. But that’s why the Laundaulet wasn’t so popular among the masses during its time. It just catered to the filthy rich or the powers that be.

Fast forward>>> The Landaulet has become the term for a car that has a convertible top for the passenger seat and a roofed or unroofed chauffeur’s area. It remains the ride-to-be for celebrities and dignitaries, the likes of Vatican religious leaders.

And if you had, by some Divine intersection, gotten hold of Maybach’s Landaulet concept car that was launched in 2007, well, congratulations, oh blessed one! May I have the honor to drive you around? =P