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here's the mercedes eqs wow i'm sorry mercedes canada i wouldn't be
that mean i think i just lied though uh the front
a lot of people in our office have said different things about it ranging from
uh it looks like a bean it looks like a camry that looks like a shoe that's been
squashed i personally think it looks like an 8th gen civic that will not
believe the average income in canada is 55 000
the questionable looking design is for a reason though the drag coefficient of
this thing is 0.2 which is just flat out incredible it
is tied for the best drag coefficient of any production car with the lucid air it
also really helps out the range the range of this thing's over 500
kilometers moving around to the side we have some aero wheels and for aero
wheels i do think these look fantastic also right here is your windshield
washer fluid reservoir which means they won't let you access the hood excellent
we get to do this again in the owner's manual if you search hood it's
absolutely hilarious only qualified specialist workshops may open it and
their reasons they have five of them risk of accident while driving risk of
injury while opening the hood risk of injury due to overheated vehicle we also
have risk of injury due to moving parts and apparently you can injure yourself
with the windshield wipers while the hood is open let's open the hood so to
unlock the hood you can see this little flap which exposes
the hood latch pull that and we should begin okay can
we just oh there we go now you can just open it geez don't want to play with that too
much big risk of injury in here in here there isn't a whole lot going on our
strut towers we have a hepa filter in here and a bunch of plastic i guess
that's so if you hit a person on the road they don't die it's just dumb you
can't do it oh that's getting half heavy let's put it back down
around back we have what's probably the best angle of this car i really like the
light bar and the logo is also your trunk latch love it best feature on a
golf best feature here too getting in the back um if you're a mob boss it's
not great like there's loads of room here but like you'll have to really chop up
your subjects because it kind of comes down and would hit pretty easily also like it's
just completely white the other journalists that had it are probably
animals and that's why it's so dirty already but like
yeah for charging you plug in right here it can do up to 200 kilowatt charging which
does 10 to 80 and i think 37 minutes
that's just because it has so much capacity 107 kilowatt hours is just a
ridiculous amount of battery it's also a ridiculous amount of weight this is 5800
pounds more on that later though to get in we have these fancy illuminated
handles that pop out as you approach they actually work really well
sitting in the back we have our first critical flaw legroom excellent but i'm
six feet tall and my head's against the top if we roll over i die in a luxury
sedan like this where you would kind of be expected that half the time you're
being driven around unless your line of sebastian it's going to be real big
problems sitting back here how is this acceptable if you are under 5 8 though
these seats are very comfortable we've got a nice little you know couple oh
there's no cup where are the cup holders there must be cup holders i haven't sat
back here yet is it chant am i just dumb
they're what is it a phone spot
there has to be cup holders in here oh there we go it was just jammed okay
perfect uh i guess that doesn't work the best but you do get two cup holders once
it comes out in the fancier version though there's a tablet here it's a tab
s4 if you want um something that's way slower than your phone oh there's also
seat heating and cooling and stuff
getting into the driver's seat it's a little bit of a mixed bag the stuff like
the leather on the steering wheel all of the bits that you touch they feel just
incredible the quality and craftsmanship is top notch there's lots of other
things though that just don't quite live up like the capacitive touch buttons
here the entire thing moves around when you press
something in a way that just feels really really bad same with like the
steering wheel all of the controls are capacitive touch do you know why you put
capacitive touch buttons on a steering wheel because you're volkswagen and
you're really cheap this is the sort of stuff that you put in a car for
cutting cost or because you're a mercedes and you want to copy
volkswagen's worst idea well since dieselgate
you get used to it even though you do kind of need to look every time that you
hit it that said just give me proper controls mercedes there's no excuse for
the seat controls it's still a mixed bag the controls for reclining and height
and stuff are pretty good whereas for seat heating cooling and memory it's all
one big capacitive touch button and it feels terrible
also incredibly annoying for the seats you don't have lumbar or bolster control
from the side so instead you have to go home
comfort seat lumbar and now i'm able to adjust it and
the bolster and stuff it's just why
in other mercedes cars they have just like a little control over here that
would be so much better please just bring that back overall though once you
have your seat settings locked in these are exceptionally comfortable seats and
they also have a massage function which i have brought an expert in for wow
fancy car oh yeah it's so fancy so other resident
massage seat expert oh yeah of course i can judge that so which one do you want
we have so many different programs wait what they have so many options yeah they
have hard relaxed relaxing back hard relaxing shoulders let's do
more mobilizing i don't know what that means but let's try it
it's not very intense to be honest i don't really feel it well maybe let's go
something harder activating massage like i think one thing is like maybe it's
because it's a pillow so my back is not really leaning on the
back i have to push back a lot more to feel it okay well what about a deep
weight let's go let's go deep just a second there are things that like poke
your bum let's do that deep workout
is this deep enough for you it's not because things i don't feel the balls i
i want to feel the balls and like oh i can feel it's like a tiny bit like a
touch i usually when i have a massage at home i want to feel a little bit of pain
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
kind of massage that can actually make you feel like oh that was so nice this
is not the massage you want this one i find so weird press bottom oh
okay i feel this one more where's the ball
oh oh do you get better 10. for car i'll give you an ar-10 okay that's just nice
to have one kind of funny thing that it does you can't see it in person but on
the camera you can it has facial recognition up here with ir so if you
like block it with the steering wheel and drive around for a bit a thing comes
up and it's like raise your steering room wheel so you can see the whole gauge cluster
cool i guess one thing that annoys me about the gauge cluster is that the
color of your gauge cluster and the leds of the car cannot be separated you
adjust one you adjust the other so i end up having this one all the time because
it makes the gauge cluster a lot easier to look at even though it's kind of the
most boring led setup i want the rainbow
one thing that i really want to shout out to them though the navigation if you
open it up here you have the option to have a 2d map that always faces north i
always like my maps to face north oh one more thing there's also a bunch of fancy
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
foot pounds of torque can do to move over 5 800 pounds of metal and batteries
once you do the launch the rest of the driving experience is
not the best the way that they have the suspension set up is very comfort
orientated you have two settings for your dampers they call it comfort and
sport but it's more like wallowie and comfort for going under
about 80 kilometers per hour the comfort setting is pretty good once you're on
the highway you'll want to put it in sport otherwise it kind of dips and
dives a little bit too much for my liking although going forward is pretty
good slowing down is just the worst thing
that i've ever felt in a car that's not completely clapped i feel like
first 50 of the brick paddle is like
regen breaking or something like that i am more confident breaking in my minivan
than this thing they're doing some adaptive stuff where it's seeing what's
in front of you and changing the brake regen and the pedal feel to bring this
to a stop in a way that's nice and controlled and smooth is almost
impossible in a lot of situations you just have to be constantly fighting
their adaptive braking which you can't turn off and getting a nice stop is so
hard this is coming from someone that does throttle blips and heel toe in
their daily driver it's genuinely incredible how badly they it up oh
let's just oh geez
it doesn't really love getting chucked into corners you can feel the whole
thing sort of bending around but this isn't supposed to be a corner carver and
i think that the way that they've set it up is perfectly fine like this is quite
a bumpy road and we're just bruising over everything it is incredibly smooth
in here top marks for that also sound isolation very good it is raining
outside actually pouring right now but for just like going to and from work it
is quite fantastic the lane centering in this is x1 it's not quite as good as the
bmw ix that i had last week but if i didn't have them back to back i am sure
that i would have just said that they're the same now let's see we're coming up here okay
this is oh stop stop stop stop stop stop stop that was a little bit scary uh
overall though if you're not approaching a stopped vehicle from 80 kilometers per
hour the adaptive cruise in this is just top notch not quite as good as audi's
system but still very good one thing i have heard other reviewers complain
about is the feel of the steering so we have 10 degrees of rear wheel steering
in this which gives you a really nice and tight turning radius it seems like
as long as a tiny truck but a double lane you can do you even
with no problem great for the first couple days i found
it a little bit strange because below 60 kilometers per hour it's turning with
the front wheels above that it's turning kind of against them after a couple days
i figured it out and i don't really have any complaints i think they tuned in
pretty well right the hey mercedes thing hey mercedes do you cook christ
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if your uncle roger or me you know who has a little bit of accent
then this may not be a good option maybe alex you should try it directions to
sully's bagelry where do you want to go
oh my god hey mercedes how can i help i
want to go home oh right
the sound system we have in here is from burmester and it is freaking great now
one interesting thing they've done is the tweeters are aimed at the Windows
instead of at you now this does make the highs a little bit less crisp
but it makes the sound stage so much wider combined with the 3d processing
that they have in here it just sounds so huge like you're in a room twice as big
as this
overall these speakers are just fantastic the lack of sub bass does take
it away from being like an experience like it was in the volvo but overall
it's great my only little nitpick also is that the sound dipping is not tuned
quite correctly for this car it must have been done in gasoline vehicles and
when it translates into here sometimes when you pull up to a light the audio
just dips way too much and it's kind of weird sounding overall like i
didn't hate my time with the eqs it is in many ways quite a good car but it's
just death by a thousand cuts the crappy capacitive touch the menus that take way
too long to go through incredibly bad
brake feel and kind of strange looks one
or two of those i can get over in a car that costs a hundred and sixty thousand
dollars canadian it's just not acceptable like you can get away with
one or two of those things all of it together it just
leads me to being like why why would you ever buy this there's so many other
things that you could purchase for this amount of money what would you take this
or a golf gti a mini van a tesla model 3
and an 86 those four those four those
four for sure 100 you can get the low-end s-class for this amount of money
and oh andy do you think that is better i don't actually know mercedes canada
just give us an s-class you know i want to be a fancy boy for a week in the end
it's not worth 160 000 canadian whenever
you guys even gonna buy this anyway like how many oligarchs and oil barons that
want an electric vehicle do we have in here i
don't know comment down below if you are one and just have a fantastic day see
you later