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here at ShortCircuit we're all about giving you the premium tech tips so if

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you ever wanted to know how to waste 160 000

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here's the mercedes eqs wow i'm sorry mercedes canada i wouldn't be

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that mean i think i just lied though uh the front

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a lot of people in our office have said different things about it ranging from

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uh it looks like a bean it looks like a camry that looks like a shoe that's been

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squashed i personally think it looks like an 8th gen civic that will not

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believe the average income in canada is 55 000

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the questionable looking design is for a reason though the drag coefficient of

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this thing is 0.2 which is just flat out incredible it

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is tied for the best drag coefficient of any production car with the lucid air it

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also really helps out the range the range of this thing's over 500

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kilometers moving around to the side we have some aero wheels and for aero

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wheels i do think these look fantastic also right here is your windshield

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washer fluid reservoir which means they won't let you access the hood excellent

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we get to do this again in the owner's manual if you search hood it's

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absolutely hilarious only qualified specialist workshops may open it and

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their reasons they have five of them risk of accident while driving risk of

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injury while opening the hood risk of injury due to overheated vehicle we also

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have risk of injury due to moving parts and apparently you can injure yourself

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with the windshield wipers while the hood is open let's open the hood so to

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unlock the hood you can see this little flap which exposes

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the hood latch pull that and we should begin okay can

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we just oh there we go now you can just open it geez don't want to play with that too

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much big risk of injury in here in here there isn't a whole lot going on our

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strut towers we have a hepa filter in here and a bunch of plastic i guess

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that's so if you hit a person on the road they don't die it's just dumb you

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can't do it oh that's getting half heavy let's put it back down

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around back we have what's probably the best angle of this car i really like the

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light bar and the logo is also your trunk latch love it best feature on a

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golf best feature here too getting in the back um if you're a mob boss it's

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not great like there's loads of room here but like you'll have to really chop up

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your subjects because it kind of comes down and would hit pretty easily also like it's

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just completely white the other journalists that had it are probably

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animals and that's why it's so dirty already but like

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yeah for charging you plug in right here it can do up to 200 kilowatt charging which

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does 10 to 80 and i think 37 minutes

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that's just because it has so much capacity 107 kilowatt hours is just a

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ridiculous amount of battery it's also a ridiculous amount of weight this is 5800

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pounds more on that later though to get in we have these fancy illuminated

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handles that pop out as you approach they actually work really well

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sitting in the back we have our first critical flaw legroom excellent but i'm

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six feet tall and my head's against the top if we roll over i die in a luxury

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sedan like this where you would kind of be expected that half the time you're

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being driven around unless your line of sebastian it's going to be real big

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problems sitting back here how is this acceptable if you are under 5 8 though

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these seats are very comfortable we've got a nice little you know couple oh

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there's no cup where are the cup holders there must be cup holders i haven't sat

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back here yet is it chant am i just dumb

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they're what is it a phone spot

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there has to be cup holders in here oh there we go it was just jammed okay

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perfect uh i guess that doesn't work the best but you do get two cup holders once

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it comes out in the fancier version though there's a tablet here it's a tab

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s4 if you want um something that's way slower than your phone oh there's also

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seat heating and cooling and stuff

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getting into the driver's seat it's a little bit of a mixed bag the stuff like

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the leather on the steering wheel all of the bits that you touch they feel just

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incredible the quality and craftsmanship is top notch there's lots of other

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things though that just don't quite live up like the capacitive touch buttons

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here the entire thing moves around when you press

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something in a way that just feels really really bad same with like the

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steering wheel all of the controls are capacitive touch do you know why you put

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capacitive touch buttons on a steering wheel because you're volkswagen and

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you're really cheap this is the sort of stuff that you put in a car for

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cutting cost or because you're a mercedes and you want to copy

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volkswagen's worst idea well since dieselgate

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you get used to it even though you do kind of need to look every time that you

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hit it that said just give me proper controls mercedes there's no excuse for

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the seat controls it's still a mixed bag the controls for reclining and height

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and stuff are pretty good whereas for seat heating cooling and memory it's all

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one big capacitive touch button and it feels terrible

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also incredibly annoying for the seats you don't have lumbar or bolster control

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from the side so instead you have to go home

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comfort seat lumbar and now i'm able to adjust it and

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the bolster and stuff it's just why

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in other mercedes cars they have just like a little control over here that

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would be so much better please just bring that back overall though once you

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have your seat settings locked in these are exceptionally comfortable seats and

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they also have a massage function which i have brought an expert in for wow

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fancy car oh yeah it's so fancy so other resident

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massage seat expert oh yeah of course i can judge that so which one do you want

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we have so many different programs wait what they have so many options yeah they

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have hard relaxed relaxing back hard relaxing shoulders let's do

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more mobilizing i don't know what that means but let's try it

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it's not very intense to be honest i don't really feel it well maybe let's go

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something harder activating massage like i think one thing is like maybe it's

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because it's a pillow so my back is not really leaning on the

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back i have to push back a lot more to feel it okay well what about a deep

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weight let's go let's go deep just a second there are things that like poke

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your bum let's do that deep workout

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is this deep enough for you it's not because things i don't feel the balls i

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i want to feel the balls and like oh i can feel it's like a tiny bit like a

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touch i usually when i have a massage at home i want to feel a little bit of pain

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i think this would be nice like when you're having a nap while you're driving but if you're if you're looking for some

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kind of massage that can actually make you feel like oh that was so nice this

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is not the massage you want this one i find so weird press bottom oh

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okay i feel this one more where's the ball

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oh oh do you get better 10. for car i'll give you an ar-10 okay that's just nice

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to have one kind of funny thing that it does you can't see it in person but on

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the camera you can it has facial recognition up here with ir so if you

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like block it with the steering wheel and drive around for a bit a thing comes

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up and it's like raise your steering room wheel so you can see the whole gauge cluster

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cool i guess one thing that annoys me about the gauge cluster is that the

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color of your gauge cluster and the leds of the car cannot be separated you

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adjust one you adjust the other so i end up having this one all the time because

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it makes the gauge cluster a lot easier to look at even though it's kind of the

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most boring led setup i want the rainbow

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one thing that i really want to shout out to them though the navigation if you

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open it up here you have the option to have a 2d map that always faces north i

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always like my maps to face north oh one more thing there's also a bunch of fancy

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heads up display stuff um i disabled all of it because i found it distracting i'd

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oh heck yeah this thing has a 0 to 60 of 4.3 seconds incredible what over 600

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foot pounds of torque can do to move over 5 800 pounds of metal and batteries

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once you do the launch the rest of the driving experience is

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not the best the way that they have the suspension set up is very comfort

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orientated you have two settings for your dampers they call it comfort and

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sport but it's more like wallowie and comfort for going under

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about 80 kilometers per hour the comfort setting is pretty good once you're on

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the highway you'll want to put it in sport otherwise it kind of dips and

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dives a little bit too much for my liking although going forward is pretty

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good slowing down is just the worst thing

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that i've ever felt in a car that's not completely clapped i feel like

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first 50 of the brick paddle is like

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regen breaking or something like that i am more confident breaking in my minivan

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than this thing they're doing some adaptive stuff where it's seeing what's

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in front of you and changing the brake regen and the pedal feel to bring this

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to a stop in a way that's nice and controlled and smooth is almost

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impossible in a lot of situations you just have to be constantly fighting

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their adaptive braking which you can't turn off and getting a nice stop is so

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hard this is coming from someone that does throttle blips and heel toe in

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their daily driver it's genuinely incredible how badly they it up oh

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let's just oh geez

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it doesn't really love getting chucked into corners you can feel the whole

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thing sort of bending around but this isn't supposed to be a corner carver and

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i think that the way that they've set it up is perfectly fine like this is quite

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a bumpy road and we're just bruising over everything it is incredibly smooth

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in here top marks for that also sound isolation very good it is raining

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outside actually pouring right now but for just like going to and from work it

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is quite fantastic the lane centering in this is x1 it's not quite as good as the

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bmw ix that i had last week but if i didn't have them back to back i am sure

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that i would have just said that they're the same now let's see we're coming up here okay

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this is oh stop stop stop stop stop stop stop that was a little bit scary uh

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overall though if you're not approaching a stopped vehicle from 80 kilometers per

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hour the adaptive cruise in this is just top notch not quite as good as audi's

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system but still very good one thing i have heard other reviewers complain

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about is the feel of the steering so we have 10 degrees of rear wheel steering

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in this which gives you a really nice and tight turning radius it seems like

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as long as a tiny truck but a double lane you can do you even

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with no problem great for the first couple days i found

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it a little bit strange because below 60 kilometers per hour it's turning with

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the front wheels above that it's turning kind of against them after a couple days

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i figured it out and i don't really have any complaints i think they tuned in

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pretty well right the hey mercedes thing hey mercedes do you cook christ

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showing six results matching mercedes-benz with more than three stars

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if your uncle roger or me you know who has a little bit of accent

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then this may not be a good option maybe alex you should try it directions to

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sully's bagelry where do you want to go

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oh my god hey mercedes how can i help i

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want to go home oh right

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the sound system we have in here is from burmester and it is freaking great now

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one interesting thing they've done is the tweeters are aimed at the Windows

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instead of at you now this does make the highs a little bit less crisp

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but it makes the sound stage so much wider combined with the 3d processing

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that they have in here it just sounds so huge like you're in a room twice as big

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as this

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overall these speakers are just fantastic the lack of sub bass does take

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it away from being like an experience like it was in the volvo but overall

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it's great my only little nitpick also is that the sound dipping is not tuned

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quite correctly for this car it must have been done in gasoline vehicles and

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when it translates into here sometimes when you pull up to a light the audio

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just dips way too much and it's kind of weird sounding overall like i

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didn't hate my time with the eqs it is in many ways quite a good car but it's

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just death by a thousand cuts the crappy capacitive touch the menus that take way

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too long to go through incredibly bad

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brake feel and kind of strange looks one

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or two of those i can get over in a car that costs a hundred and sixty thousand

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dollars canadian it's just not acceptable like you can get away with

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one or two of those things all of it together it just

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leads me to being like why why would you ever buy this there's so many other

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things that you could purchase for this amount of money what would you take this

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or a golf gti a mini van a tesla model 3

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and an 86 those four those four those

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four for sure 100 you can get the low-end s-class for this amount of money

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and oh andy do you think that is better i don't actually know mercedes canada

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just give us an s-class you know i want to be a fancy boy for a week in the end

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it's not worth 160 000 canadian whenever

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you guys even gonna buy this anyway like how many oligarchs and oil barons that

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want an electric vehicle do we have in here i

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don't know comment down below if you are one and just have a fantastic day see

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you later