Applying the Maybach badge to a Mercedes-Benz ups the game by making it more luxurious than ever, but would this recipe work on the new X-Class?

Rendering artist Aksyonov Nikita thinks the answer is yes, which is why he transformed the pickup truck into a more upscale model that would make us forget all about the Volkswagen Amarok.

At the front, this X-Class has received a new grille with three chromed horizontal bars flanked by redesigned headlights with incorporated LED DRLs, and a new bumper with large air intakes. At the rear end, there are new LED taillights, a new tailgate handle and a different bumper.

That’s just an exercise, of course, since Mercedes has stated that they’re not interested into an AMG version of the X-Class, and we can’t see them going for a Maybach one, either, as Mercedes-Benz Vans global chief Volker Mornhinweg has already said he believes the pickup truck “is quite impressive already when it comes to styling and so on”.

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