WEBVTT 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:06.319 here at ShortCircuit we're all about giving you the premium tech tips so if 00:00:04.080 --> 00:00:10.400 you ever wanted to know how to waste 160 000 00:00:07.520 --> 00:00:12.880 here's the mercedes eqs wow i'm sorry mercedes canada i wouldn't be 00:00:11.840 --> 00:00:17.760 that mean i think i just lied though uh the front 00:00:15.440 --> 00:00:21.840 a lot of people in our office have said different things about it ranging from 00:00:19.600 --> 00:00:25.680 uh it looks like a bean it looks like a camry that looks like a shoe that's been 00:00:24.000 --> 00:00:29.679 squashed i personally think it looks like an 8th gen civic that will not 00:00:27.359 --> 00:00:32.640 believe the average income in canada is 55 000 00:00:32.800 --> 00:00:38.200 the questionable looking design is for a reason though the drag coefficient of 00:00:37.040 --> 00:00:43.840 this thing is 0.2 which is just flat out incredible it 00:00:41.520 --> 00:00:47.600 is tied for the best drag coefficient of any production car with the lucid air it 00:00:46.000 --> 00:00:51.520 also really helps out the range the range of this thing's over 500 00:00:49.360 --> 00:00:55.360 kilometers moving around to the side we have some aero wheels and for aero 00:00:53.440 --> 00:00:59.920 wheels i do think these look fantastic also right here is your windshield 00:00:57.199 --> 00:01:04.159 washer fluid reservoir which means they won't let you access the hood excellent 00:01:01.920 --> 00:01:08.159 we get to do this again in the owner's manual if you search hood it's 00:01:05.680 --> 00:01:12.000 absolutely hilarious only qualified specialist workshops may open it and 00:01:10.400 --> 00:01:16.720 their reasons they have five of them risk of accident while driving risk of 00:01:14.320 --> 00:01:21.280 injury while opening the hood risk of injury due to overheated vehicle we also 00:01:19.200 --> 00:01:24.479 have risk of injury due to moving parts and apparently you can injure yourself 00:01:23.040 --> 00:01:29.280 with the windshield wipers while the hood is open let's open the hood so to 00:01:26.799 --> 00:01:33.200 unlock the hood you can see this little flap which exposes 00:01:31.520 --> 00:01:35.920 the hood latch pull that and we should begin okay can 00:01:35.040 --> 00:01:42.000 we just oh there we go now you can just open it geez don't want to play with that too 00:01:39.439 --> 00:01:46.159 much big risk of injury in here in here there isn't a whole lot going on our 00:01:43.920 --> 00:01:49.840 strut towers we have a hepa filter in here and a bunch of plastic i guess 00:01:48.240 --> 00:01:54.399 that's so if you hit a person on the road they don't die it's just dumb you 00:01:52.399 --> 00:01:57.920 can't do it oh that's getting half heavy let's put it back down 00:01:56.240 --> 00:02:02.000 around back we have what's probably the best angle of this car i really like the 00:01:59.920 --> 00:02:06.560 light bar and the logo is also your trunk latch love it best feature on a 00:02:04.479 --> 00:02:10.640 golf best feature here too getting in the back um if you're a mob boss it's 00:02:08.800 --> 00:02:14.640 not great like there's loads of room here but like you'll have to really chop up 00:02:13.040 --> 00:02:20.319 your subjects because it kind of comes down and would hit pretty easily also like it's 00:02:17.599 --> 00:02:23.280 just completely white the other journalists that had it are probably 00:02:21.680 --> 00:02:25.840 animals and that's why it's so dirty already but like 00:02:24.959 --> 00:02:34.480 yeah for charging you plug in right here it can do up to 200 kilowatt charging which 00:02:30.879 --> 00:02:36.720 does 10 to 80 and i think 37 minutes 00:02:34.480 --> 00:02:42.560 that's just because it has so much capacity 107 kilowatt hours is just a 00:02:40.160 --> 00:02:46.959 ridiculous amount of battery it's also a ridiculous amount of weight this is 5800 00:02:44.720 --> 00:02:51.680 pounds more on that later though to get in we have these fancy illuminated 00:02:48.800 --> 00:02:56.879 handles that pop out as you approach they actually work really well 00:02:54.640 --> 00:03:02.879 sitting in the back we have our first critical flaw legroom excellent but i'm 00:03:00.319 --> 00:03:07.760 six feet tall and my head's against the top if we roll over i die in a luxury 00:03:05.680 --> 00:03:11.360 sedan like this where you would kind of be expected that half the time you're 00:03:09.440 --> 00:03:15.920 being driven around unless your line of sebastian it's going to be real big 00:03:13.599 --> 00:03:20.879 problems sitting back here how is this acceptable if you are under 5 8 though 00:03:18.560 --> 00:03:24.720 these seats are very comfortable we've got a nice little you know couple oh 00:03:23.280 --> 00:03:29.040 there's no cup where are the cup holders there must be cup holders i haven't sat 00:03:26.319 --> 00:03:34.159 back here yet is it chant am i just dumb 00:03:30.840 --> 00:03:35.920 they're what is it a phone spot 00:03:34.159 --> 00:03:39.120 there has to be cup holders in here oh there we go it was just jammed okay 00:03:37.280 --> 00:03:42.640 perfect uh i guess that doesn't work the best but you do get two cup holders once 00:03:40.799 --> 00:03:46.799 it comes out in the fancier version though there's a tablet here it's a tab 00:03:44.640 --> 00:03:51.680 s4 if you want um something that's way slower than your phone oh there's also 00:03:48.879 --> 00:03:55.120 seat heating and cooling and stuff 00:03:53.200 --> 00:03:59.360 getting into the driver's seat it's a little bit of a mixed bag the stuff like 00:03:57.280 --> 00:04:03.760 the leather on the steering wheel all of the bits that you touch they feel just 00:04:01.360 --> 00:04:08.080 incredible the quality and craftsmanship is top notch there's lots of other 00:04:05.840 --> 00:04:12.159 things though that just don't quite live up like the capacitive touch buttons 00:04:10.080 --> 00:04:15.439 here the entire thing moves around when you press 00:04:13.599 --> 00:04:19.359 something in a way that just feels really really bad same with like the 00:04:17.600 --> 00:04:23.120 steering wheel all of the controls are capacitive touch do you know why you put 00:04:21.199 --> 00:04:26.160 capacitive touch buttons on a steering wheel because you're volkswagen and 00:04:24.479 --> 00:04:29.600 you're really cheap this is the sort of stuff that you put in a car for 00:04:28.000 --> 00:04:33.040 cutting cost or because you're a mercedes and you want to copy 00:04:31.040 --> 00:04:36.479 volkswagen's worst idea well since dieselgate 00:04:34.479 --> 00:04:40.479 you get used to it even though you do kind of need to look every time that you 00:04:38.479 --> 00:04:45.919 hit it that said just give me proper controls mercedes there's no excuse for 00:04:43.280 --> 00:04:50.880 the seat controls it's still a mixed bag the controls for reclining and height 00:04:48.560 --> 00:04:56.240 and stuff are pretty good whereas for seat heating cooling and memory it's all 00:04:53.680 --> 00:05:00.320 one big capacitive touch button and it feels terrible 00:04:57.840 --> 00:05:05.199 also incredibly annoying for the seats you don't have lumbar or bolster control 00:05:03.360 --> 00:05:07.919 from the side so instead you have to go home 00:05:06.639 --> 00:05:16.479 comfort seat lumbar and now i'm able to adjust it and 00:05:12.639 --> 00:05:18.320 the bolster and stuff it's just why 00:05:16.479 --> 00:05:22.400 in other mercedes cars they have just like a little control over here that 00:05:20.240 --> 00:05:26.560 would be so much better please just bring that back overall though once you 00:05:24.479 --> 00:05:31.120 have your seat settings locked in these are exceptionally comfortable seats and 00:05:28.720 --> 00:05:34.800 they also have a massage function which i have brought an expert in for wow 00:05:33.360 --> 00:05:39.520 fancy car oh yeah it's so fancy so other resident 00:05:36.960 --> 00:05:43.360 massage seat expert oh yeah of course i can judge that so which one do you want 00:05:41.600 --> 00:05:48.240 we have so many different programs wait what they have so many options yeah they 00:05:45.919 --> 00:05:53.360 have hard relaxed relaxing back hard relaxing shoulders let's do 00:05:50.840 --> 00:05:56.400 more mobilizing i don't know what that means but let's try it 00:05:57.680 --> 00:06:04.400 it's not very intense to be honest i don't really feel it well maybe let's go 00:06:02.000 --> 00:06:08.479 something harder activating massage like i think one thing is like maybe it's 00:06:06.000 --> 00:06:12.319 because it's a pillow so my back is not really leaning on the 00:06:10.080 --> 00:06:16.479 back i have to push back a lot more to feel it okay well what about a deep 00:06:14.319 --> 00:06:19.600 weight let's go let's go deep just a second there are things that like poke 00:06:18.080 --> 00:06:23.520 your bum let's do that deep workout 00:06:21.360 --> 00:06:28.240 is this deep enough for you it's not because things i don't feel the balls i 00:06:26.160 --> 00:06:31.680 i want to feel the balls and like oh i can feel it's like a tiny bit like a 00:06:29.680 --> 00:06:35.680 touch i usually when i have a massage at home i want to feel a little bit of pain 00:06:34.479 --> 00:06:40.800 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 00:06:39.360 --> 00:06:46.080 kind of massage that can actually make you feel like oh that was so nice this 00:06:43.520 --> 00:06:52.160 is not the massage you want this one i find so weird press bottom oh 00:06:49.440 --> 00:06:56.400 okay i feel this one more where's the ball 00:06:53.599 --> 00:07:00.400 oh oh do you get better 10. for car i'll give you an ar-10 okay that's just nice 00:06:58.560 --> 00:07:04.240 to have one kind of funny thing that it does you can't see it in person but on 00:07:02.400 --> 00:07:08.880 the camera you can it has facial recognition up here with ir so if you 00:07:07.120 --> 00:07:12.319 like block it with the steering wheel and drive around for a bit a thing comes 00:07:10.800 --> 00:07:16.880 up and it's like raise your steering room wheel so you can see the whole gauge cluster 00:07:15.199 --> 00:07:21.280 cool i guess one thing that annoys me about the gauge cluster is that the 00:07:18.720 --> 00:07:25.680 color of your gauge cluster and the leds of the car cannot be separated you 00:07:23.440 --> 00:07:29.599 adjust one you adjust the other so i end up having this one all the time because 00:07:27.840 --> 00:07:34.639 it makes the gauge cluster a lot easier to look at even though it's kind of the 00:07:31.360 --> 00:07:36.400 most boring led setup i want the rainbow 00:07:34.639 --> 00:07:40.319 one thing that i really want to shout out to them though the navigation if you 00:07:38.639 --> 00:07:44.800 open it up here you have the option to have a 2d map that always faces north i 00:07:42.880 --> 00:07:48.080 always like my maps to face north oh one more thing there's also a bunch of fancy 00:07:46.080 --> 00:07:52.319 heads up display stuff um i disabled all of it because i found it distracting i'd 00:07:50.240 --> 00:07:55.919 say let's drive it but you guys know i'm a filthy liar this is actually a sponsor 00:07:53.919 --> 00:07:59.360 read for ifixit thanks to ifixit for sponsoring today's video ifixit makes 00:07:57.759 --> 00:08:04.720 compact tool kits with all your essential bits you need to fix your electronics for many kits with 16 bits 00:08:03.199 --> 00:08:08.879 four repair tool kits to start your repair business ifixit has got you 00:08:06.400 --> 00:08:11.840 covered use ifixit's over 70 000 repair manuals featuring photos and detailed 00:08:10.800 --> 00:08:17.039 instructions to get into your electronics and you can even use them to try and get into the hood of your 00:08:14.720 --> 00:08:20.560 mercedes eqs work worry free knowing you've got quality parts backed by ifix 00:08:18.960 --> 00:08:30.039 lifetime warranty fix your stuff today and learn more in the link in the description now it's actually driving 00:08:26.000 --> 00:08:30.039 is gonna come back 00:08:45.120 --> 00:08:53.120 oh heck yeah this thing has a 0 to 60 of 4.3 seconds incredible what over 600 00:08:51.519 --> 00:08:58.720 foot pounds of torque can do to move over 5 800 pounds of metal and batteries 00:08:56.560 --> 00:09:03.120 once you do the launch the rest of the driving experience is 00:09:01.120 --> 00:09:07.920 not the best the way that they have the suspension set up is very comfort 00:09:05.920 --> 00:09:11.920 orientated you have two settings for your dampers they call it comfort and 00:09:10.080 --> 00:09:17.120 sport but it's more like wallowie and comfort for going under 00:09:14.880 --> 00:09:20.160 about 80 kilometers per hour the comfort setting is pretty good once you're on 00:09:18.480 --> 00:09:24.640 the highway you'll want to put it in sport otherwise it kind of dips and 00:09:22.320 --> 00:09:28.240 dives a little bit too much for my liking although going forward is pretty 00:09:27.279 --> 00:09:32.959 good slowing down is just the worst thing 00:09:30.800 --> 00:09:38.640 that i've ever felt in a car that's not completely clapped i feel like 00:09:35.440 --> 00:09:40.880 first 50 of the brick paddle is like 00:09:38.640 --> 00:09:45.279 regen breaking or something like that i am more confident breaking in my minivan 00:09:43.360 --> 00:09:49.600 than this thing they're doing some adaptive stuff where it's seeing what's 00:09:47.440 --> 00:09:53.760 in front of you and changing the brake regen and the pedal feel to bring this 00:09:52.000 --> 00:09:58.080 to a stop in a way that's nice and controlled and smooth is almost 00:09:56.000 --> 00:10:01.440 impossible in a lot of situations you just have to be constantly fighting 00:09:59.839 --> 00:10:06.320 their adaptive braking which you can't turn off and getting a nice stop is so 00:10:04.640 --> 00:10:10.160 hard this is coming from someone that does throttle blips and heel toe in 00:10:08.320 --> 00:10:14.000 their daily driver it's genuinely incredible how badly they it up oh 00:10:13.040 --> 00:10:18.560 let's just oh geez 00:10:16.800 --> 00:10:22.079 it doesn't really love getting chucked into corners you can feel the whole 00:10:20.000 --> 00:10:25.839 thing sort of bending around but this isn't supposed to be a corner carver and 00:10:24.320 --> 00:10:31.120 i think that the way that they've set it up is perfectly fine like this is quite 00:10:28.480 --> 00:10:35.360 a bumpy road and we're just bruising over everything it is incredibly smooth 00:10:33.200 --> 00:10:40.079 in here top marks for that also sound isolation very good it is raining 00:10:37.680 --> 00:10:45.120 outside actually pouring right now but for just like going to and from work it 00:10:42.480 --> 00:10:50.480 is quite fantastic the lane centering in this is x1 it's not quite as good as the 00:10:47.839 --> 00:10:54.640 bmw ix that i had last week but if i didn't have them back to back i am sure 00:10:53.200 --> 00:10:59.920 that i would have just said that they're the same now let's see we're coming up here okay 00:10:57.600 --> 00:11:04.160 this is oh stop stop stop stop stop stop stop that was a little bit scary uh 00:11:02.560 --> 00:11:09.279 overall though if you're not approaching a stopped vehicle from 80 kilometers per 00:11:06.399 --> 00:11:14.480 hour the adaptive cruise in this is just top notch not quite as good as audi's 00:11:11.519 --> 00:11:18.480 system but still very good one thing i have heard other reviewers complain 00:11:16.399 --> 00:11:22.959 about is the feel of the steering so we have 10 degrees of rear wheel steering 00:11:21.120 --> 00:11:27.120 in this which gives you a really nice and tight turning radius it seems like 00:11:25.440 --> 00:11:32.399 as long as a tiny truck but a double lane you can do you even 00:11:31.120 --> 00:11:37.120 with no problem great for the first couple days i found 00:11:34.640 --> 00:11:41.360 it a little bit strange because below 60 kilometers per hour it's turning with 00:11:39.040 --> 00:11:45.519 the front wheels above that it's turning kind of against them after a couple days 00:11:43.600 --> 00:11:49.839 i figured it out and i don't really have any complaints i think they tuned in 00:11:47.040 --> 00:11:55.040 pretty well right the hey mercedes thing hey mercedes do you cook christ 00:11:53.279 --> 00:11:59.920 showing six results matching mercedes-benz with more than three stars 00:11:57.440 --> 00:12:05.519 if your uncle roger or me you know who has a little bit of accent 00:12:02.560 --> 00:12:11.839 then this may not be a good option maybe alex you should try it directions to 00:12:07.360 --> 00:12:11.839 sully's bagelry where do you want to go 00:12:12.240 --> 00:12:19.760 oh my god hey mercedes how can i help i 00:12:15.839 --> 00:12:19.760 want to go home oh right 00:12:21.040 --> 00:12:27.279 the sound system we have in here is from burmester and it is freaking great now 00:12:25.360 --> 00:12:31.279 one interesting thing they've done is the tweeters are aimed at the Windows 00:12:29.600 --> 00:12:36.320 instead of at you now this does make the highs a little bit less crisp 00:12:34.160 --> 00:12:40.720 but it makes the sound stage so much wider combined with the 3d processing 00:12:38.639 --> 00:12:44.880 that they have in here it just sounds so huge like you're in a room twice as big 00:12:42.480 --> 00:12:44.880 as this 00:12:47.200 --> 00:12:54.320 overall these speakers are just fantastic the lack of sub bass does take 00:12:51.519 --> 00:12:59.200 it away from being like an experience like it was in the volvo but overall 00:12:56.399 --> 00:13:04.160 it's great my only little nitpick also is that the sound dipping is not tuned 00:13:02.160 --> 00:13:08.240 quite correctly for this car it must have been done in gasoline vehicles and 00:13:06.399 --> 00:13:12.800 when it translates into here sometimes when you pull up to a light the audio 00:13:10.000 --> 00:13:18.079 just dips way too much and it's kind of weird sounding overall like i 00:13:15.519 --> 00:13:23.120 didn't hate my time with the eqs it is in many ways quite a good car but it's 00:13:20.480 --> 00:13:29.200 just death by a thousand cuts the crappy capacitive touch the menus that take way 00:13:26.079 --> 00:13:32.639 too long to go through incredibly bad 00:13:29.200 --> 00:13:35.360 brake feel and kind of strange looks one 00:13:32.639 --> 00:13:39.760 or two of those i can get over in a car that costs a hundred and sixty thousand 00:13:37.920 --> 00:13:43.519 dollars canadian it's just not acceptable like you can get away with 00:13:41.440 --> 00:13:47.040 one or two of those things all of it together it just 00:13:44.880 --> 00:13:50.240 leads me to being like why why would you ever buy this there's so many other 00:13:48.800 --> 00:13:56.639 things that you could purchase for this amount of money what would you take this 00:13:52.399 --> 00:13:59.839 or a golf gti a mini van a tesla model 3 00:13:56.639 --> 00:14:02.000 and an 86 those four those four those 00:13:59.839 --> 00:14:05.920 four for sure 100 you can get the low-end s-class for this amount of money 00:14:03.839 --> 00:14:10.560 and oh andy do you think that is better i don't actually know mercedes canada 00:14:08.560 --> 00:14:16.000 just give us an s-class you know i want to be a fancy boy for a week in the end 00:14:12.639 --> 00:14:17.760 it's not worth 160 000 canadian whenever 00:14:16.000 --> 00:14:20.880 you guys even gonna buy this anyway like how many oligarchs and oil barons that 00:14:20.079 --> 00:14:24.560 want an electric vehicle do we have in here i 00:14:23.120 --> 00:14:29.360 don't know comment down below if you are one and just have a fantastic day see 00:14:27.120 --> 00:14:29.360 you later