Maybach to add open-top Landaulet model -paper

FRANKFURT, Jan 16 (Reuters) - Daimler AG (DAIGn.DE) has decided to round out its luxury limousine Maybach brand with the open-top Landaulet model based on the Maybach 62 S sedan, Mercedes-Benz Cars marketing head Klaus Maier told a newspaper.

Maybach displayed the car at the Detroit car show this week and it is now set to go into serial production, Maier told the Stuttgarter Zeitung paper in an interview printed on Wednesday.

"The car on display was already sold last night," he was quoted as saying. "The Landaulet will expand the Maybach product line and draw a lot of attention to the brand," he added.

He did not say how many units of the model -- which he said costs around 800,000 euros ($1.19 million) and up -- it planned to make.

Maybach sold around 400 units in 2007, while BMW's (BMWG.DE) Rolls-Royce brand sold just over 1,000.

(editing by Elizabeth Fullerton)