Our friend Vincent over at Autoblog.nl pointed us to us to a story this afternoon in which the eerily psychic journalists at Auto Motor und Sport predict that we may soon see a smaller addition to the exorbitant Maybach family.

The German publication is reporting that to do battle with the forthcoming Rolls Royce as well as the Bentley Continental Flying Spur, the premium luxury division of the Mercedes Car Group will introduce a 5.10 meter version of the Maybach (a Maybach 51), with power ranging from 500-600 horsepower either via a V8 or V12 powerplant.

The magazine added it expects to see the new Maybach introduced somewhere around 2009 or 2010, with pricing set around the EUR 200,000 mark.

As always, we'll keep you posted if any late-breaking new emerges; in the meantime, head over to Auto Motor und Sport for the full article (roughly translated from German).