a little while ago we checked out the Mercedes eqs and uh frankly it was
terrible good thing though we have the eqe today and it is much improved let's
check with little brother starting with the looks now it does still have the
Bean or a shoe appearance of the eqs but the proportions overall are much better
and I like how they have these lines along the hood the little duckbill
spoiler at the back and overall I think it just looks a lot better compared to
the normal E-class uh yeah this is not
the better looking one around the side we've got these 19-inch
AMG rims that are wrapped in winter tires for some reason if you're
wondering uh I have not been thrashing this but there is still rubber all up
this side do not use winter tires when it's 30 degrees out the more you know
above that we've got our windshield washer Reservoir because Mercedes will
not let you open the hood once again there are two little releases if you
want to but uh guys please just give us a normal latch
the drag coefficient of this thing is only 0.22 which is definitely helped by
these door handles that pop out so you get them but uh they don't they don't
always pop out for me oh they did it right there but I have consistently had
to go and unlock it using the key fob like a filthy animal around back a light
bar that goes all the way across and I think looks pretty good and a rear view
camera that's hidden behind the Mercedes logo that's also how you open up the
trunk Works quite well in the trunk there isn't a whole load of space for a
car of this size like LTT backpack takes
up heaps of space in here unfortunately we do have a tiny little compartment for
your first aid kit tire repair kit and of course an LTC water bottle
ltdstore.com up here we've got our power close close unlock and also releases for
both of the rear seats which is very nice to have they won't come back up
though for charging we get to up to 170
kilowatts DC although you won't be needing to charge as much as you might
expect now Mercedes says this right here with its 90 kilowatt hour battery is
good for 418 kilometers of range but strangely I've been getting more like
500 uh most of the time they overdo the
range but it's very strange that they've massively underdone it for this one it
seems popping into the back seat we've got a
sort of enough space if my head's in the
sunroof area otherwise I'm
I'm smacking it right there that said
leg room there is plenty of and these are very very comfortable seats also
have a nice little rear climate display and heating for the rear passengers
we've also got 200 watt usb type-c chargers which are an optional extra and
a little armrest that has one of these confusing
there are the cup holders hopping into the driver's seat this is a
very comfortable spot to be we've got heaps of adjustments like adjustable
bolsters pneumatic lumbar massaging functions and of course it's all an
optional extra everything in here just you really need to get this thing out in
order for it to be worth it this thing's like 40 Grand above starting that said
though everything in here is exceptionally well built like the
squishiness of the cushions here on both of the armrests oh man it is a relief
after the pole star there are some kind of chintzy bit like these capacitive
touch buttons right here move around a bit more than I'd like same with the
ones over for the heating and cooling of the driver's seat but overall it is
pretty good that said Mercedes still doesn't have the ease of use for some of
this stuff that I might expect like uh the Z controls they're already over here
minus uh a lot of of the other C controls that you want to have so you
have to go in here menu Comfort seat and
now you can adjust like the lumbar support or the side bolsters or the
heating settings which Strangely I cannot find a button for the steering
wheel heat so we can do the additional steering wheel heat and that means that
when I turn on the seat heating the steering wheel heat turns on but because
I am a very clammy boy I do not like that and I just I don't know there's no
button down here there's nothing like that oh wait I have an idea
okay okay watch this watch this
seat heat's on steering wheel Heats off hey Mercedes
how can I help turn on the steering wheel heat okay I'm switching on the
steering wheel Heating
how do I know it I can't believe there's no button for this anyway anyway let's
get a couple more complaints out of the way while we're here first of all piano
black it looks terrible this right here for the most part in the interior looks
very nice but no matter what you do you
have to have piano black in the middle and it looks freaking disgusting all the
time that said we have a nice little bit of
storage here nice little spot for your cups there wireless charger that's very
hard to get to and wireless Android auto also on the steering wheel we have more
crap tier capacitive buttons that they work fine enough it's pretty good but at
the same time What Mercedes had previously is just straight up better
like guys please just bring back the little roller the couple of other things
there's also no like next track button on here which is kind of disappointing
given there's so many other controls it's just strange and poorly thought out
as for the infotainment it is
fine there's a lot of stuff on here that just isn't scaled quite properly like
you can tell that they know what the proper scale is because you go to like
home you have these nice beautiful icons dragged down again nice great big icons
but then some of the stuff that you use constantly is not as easy like next
track previous track they're just a
little bit too small for my hands like it's fine to hit when we're just sitting
here but when you're going down the road bouncing around and stuff it's just too
small same with the Android auto icon why is it so small guys a lot of the
time it's just like a nice big old button or something like that and it's
just so weird that it's so small Mercedes
does get points for including Android auto and apple carplay both are Wireless
fantastic but it isn't as something shut
up something's always wrong hey Mercedes I do have to commend Mercedes for at
least just keeping Android auto and apple carplay on like GM and some others
but that said it isn't as well integrated as I would like in some areas
like we have this display up here and it has a beautiful map mode especially like
the heads-up display when you're using the Mercedes version of their navigation
is absolutely exceptional now their root
Guidance just simply is not as good as what Google has so the problem is you
have to decide do you want a really nice heads-up display experience or do you
want to actually arrive there on time I do feel like I've done a lot of nitpicking in here but I do have to say
they have done just such a good job with
so much of it like this is the best interior lighting that I have seen in a
car the way that they have the use a little vents it doesn't feel the
greatest but they look really really good RGB events guys and of course
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alright let's take drive now this thing
is five meters long and basically a big old boat but it doesn't handle like it
in a parking lot at least we have rear wheel steering and a 360 camera so this
is actually a very simple cart fit into even pretty small parking spots had no
trouble there all right let's do a little launchy
launch here this thing has 402 horsepower and over 600 foot pounds of
torque which gives us a 0-60 of 4.7
seconds which uh for that amount of power seems pretty darn long and that's
because this thing is 5200 pounds that
said though we have a lot of mass stamping and very soft suspension so
this is an exceptionally comfortable car
how do I know well uh the road we're on right now is banned for a roll because
the camera right there is just unusable in most cars while we're driving over a
road that is this bumpy that said in the
eqe this right here is just absorbing the bumps we're just drifting right down
at no problems at all it is quiet it is
very comfortable oh
there's the road where we normally start our a-roll now once you get over about
120 the softness of the suspension can
become a problem there if you have like some big more rolly bumps because it's
so soft if you're in the rebound of the shocks when you hit the next bump you
can get just freaking launched straight into the air
whereas a stiffer car you just kind of be going over it one more small issue
with the highway driving is that this does have a little bit more road noise
than I was expecting once you are going
at highway speeds I don't know if that's an issue caused mostly because we have
winter tires on this still but it doesn't have the quietness that stuff
like the G80 or the Cadillac lyric have
that have that active noise suppression that's going to get rid of those hums
and stuff another thing though that makes this an exceptional Cruiser for
lower speeds is that we have ourselves a proper sunroof up here heck freaking yes
this right here will be the best car for driving down like an ocean road if it
were not for one thing
let's pull over because that was kind of loud sunroof opened Windows down this is
such a great car for just comfortably cruising around town
and it's kind of ruined by this right here we've got this super nice Alcantara
sweetie sort of stuff but if you look the window just it
by like what half inch something like that means it can't have your ARM out
the window and just relax like this
all right we've got some Corners let's torture these poor winter tires
here we go chucking it in
heaps of body roll but that said the whole thing does feel very controlled
and very composed especially for how
much mass this thing has that said I do have some trouble properly balancing the
car because the accelerator pedal has quite a bit of smoothing on it so if you
want to like get into the gas get off
the gas there's a lot more delay than I would like to see an electric car it a
bit of a problem because well just kind of generally driving it I find difficult
to do very smoothly I really wish they just gave us the option of having like a
chill and a not chill mode for the accelerator like Volvo and Tesla and
lots of other makers that said if you're interested in not driving as much this
is a pretty good car to do that in the lane centering is excellent some of the
best that I've ever seen the adaptive cruise is pretty good even if it is a
little bit jerky at times especially if the person in front of you is not
fantastic at driving I've left it on which is more than I can say about the
vast majority of cars that I've had and my only real complaint is that it gets
super mad at you to have your hands on the wheel even when you already have
your hands on the wheel now probably our largest complaint about the eqs was the
feel of the brakes and it was just God awful and here they have done an
excellent Improvement in the sort sort of sense that licking a nine volt
battery is better than looking at car battery it's still terrible now we're on
flat ground right now so the stopping's going to be fine enough but I found that
when I'm on any sort of an incline it grabs the brakes when you go to stop and
it can just be like it's honestly crazy that Mercedes wants
to go all-electric by 2030 when they can't even figure out how to make the
break and the gas work correctly in one guys please fix that seriously what
doesn't need fixing though is the sound system
play crab rave on title in here we've got the sound system from burmester and
this thing sounds so freaking good they've got the tweeters up pointed at
the Windows which bounce off of them and you just get this insane surround sound
experience that is is unlike a lot of
cars that we have now it doesn't have the low end extension it starts rolling
off around about 40 Hertz but it does
sound darn good
yeah see there it didn't like fully trail out like it does in the
Volvo or you know my golf properly measuring the system was a little bit
difficult because whatever they're doing for the 3D surround does some phase
changes which does also show up in the frequency response so we turned it in
their peer setting which sounds like trash but I just like leaving it as it is from
the factory and she sounds darn good so
the Mercedes eqe this one that we have right here was a hundred and twenty
thousand dollars Canadian and uh I think
this right here is a really good spec for the car but that's a lot of freaking
money now this does feel a lot more
grounded as a car than the eqs did it's
just as comfortable it has really all of the good things of that but it just
feels better to drive in so it's sort of
completely eliminates the eqs from you wanting to have it that said though
there are a lot of other cars that are quite a bit less money that I think are
just as good in many ways if you're in the market for a car like this I would
strongly recommend looking into the G80 EV before pulling the trigger on this
it's the one that I personally like more but if you want more of like the really
fancy RGB the eqe
who could do verse so guys if you like this video hit like get subscribed and I
promise we are going to have some cheaper EVS soon very very soon ah
it's really oh my God Mercedes shut the
up I may not be perfect but I'm getting better every day I'll believe it
when I see it