W213, W212, W211, W124 looks better, all Mercedes-Benz EQ models are boring and ugly.

Yes. And they STILL murdered the redesign of the regular E.

@@drivinginthedcbaarea I think they nailed it with the brand new E Class 🤷🏼‍♂️

Why would it look good? It’s got one of the lowest drag coefficients on the market

as an EQE43 owner I agree, but this particular specs do not do a favor. Thinking other colors and amg trim help a little.

Should be half that

not to mention how ugly it is

Quality is also extremely bad. Mercedes is degrading fast. Their EVs are not selling. New C-Class has also extremely bad quality. I live near Stuttgart and know a lot of people working there. A lot goes wrong since the new CEO came.

@@MrBigL100 It looks soo cool though that's the thing. I drive a B9 A4 and the interior on my car just looks so dead compared to the C Class. Like all the LEDS and swoopy lines. I was considering buying a GLC/C Class as my next car in a few years when they're a bit cheaper used.

@XeberhardtX this car started development under the old CEO

it's ugly af who cares what Doug says

It's not necessarily a contradiction, not at all. It was explained a while ago by either Doug himself or someone in the comments.

That's because hes a real man not a woMAn like u lol

MC_Master is the kind of guy who continues to use an old tired worn out joke which is way past it's 15 minutes.

@@TheCourtanderson It really is ugly all around. hideous 2/10 styling

Hahaha I thought the rendering looked too small...

Aerodynamics trump looks when you're going for range. If it was an ICE I'd abhor the thing but I don't mind considering the circumstances of where EVs are at, at the moment

It's unfortunate their design language doesn't translate well with EVs

It looks too basic 👎🏽

As a merc fan I agree.

It works for old people like Doug that like it..sigh

This car doesn't scream luxury that is for sure.

what are you talking about that interior is amazing

@@mrducky179 Plastics and iPads. Nothing amazing about that.

@@mrducky179 definitely not amazing, their AMG GLE on the other hand…

@@martinsvensson6884Yeah, it’s amazing how people are wow’d by a big ugly fucking IPad just pasted in the middle of the center console. To think people actually think an interior design like this is luxurious is quite sad.

😂😂😂

😂😂😂 thanks for the laugh, I needed to see someone mocking this horrendous looking electric thing

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the look can get by. the crap driving? no

Doug will excuse anything from MB. We know he’s a MB fanboy and was called to review this ugly thing.

Prolly also doesn't want to risk his relationship with that dealership

doug regularly praises cars where the entire dashboard is a garbage screen that causes people to crash by having to check that it actually responded to your touch so yeah, he's really lenient on those

It honestly annoys me how biased he is towards German cars. Especially Porsche and Mercedes. And he also thinks that just because a car as more screens, it's somehow superior in every way. Guarantee if this had a Honda badge on it, he'd be shitting all over it.

It's because a dealership gave it to him to review so he's going to be nice about it and for people saying he just likes Mercedes or German cars I remember him sucking off Acura for the NSX for shit that came out of a Civic all because a dealership gave it to him

The Ioniq 6 also starts at 42000 Euro and max out at 63000 Euro with camera wing mirrors

Now it's not surprising. Korea is consistently beating Germany in car design and its not even close.

Audi and Bmw are leading the way in terms of quality.

@@akj2387 can't get used to the new bmw " face " the front grill looks like bunny or beaver teeth

Nah. The Benz is ugly but the Hyundais are down right God awful.

It's almost like they think their customers are idiots who only care about cheap slapped on screens and a logo on ugly overpriced cars.

My Kia Soul has heated rear seats with a high and low setting.

Everything about this vehicle is inexcusable. Just look at it compared to ANY other EV in its price range…

Ha! My 2013 Hyundai Santa Fe has heated rear seats.

​@@iSOBigD yeah, imagine. Customers that only care about that logo. The 3 pointed swastika.

Which is why everyone else abandoned capacitive touch a decade ago, especially for gradient-based inputs.

This is the kind of thing that will age so poorly. Fast forward 5 years and people will laugh.

Can you tap on the plus and minus sign on both side of the slide bar? Does it has such a function?

@@Kayneth93 You can, but the touch targets are very small, you have to look at them (no texture or any other touch affordance) and the entire touch bar moves when you press it. It's bad.

Yeah it is so laggy for a brand new Mercedes car ... Can't believe quality department approved that

Exactly. Cringe. If it isn’t on the level of your smartphone, it’s bad.

Yeah, I can’t trust Doug anymore. On top of lying about the screen responsiveness, you can tell he doesn’t like it. With all the fame he’s gotten and the treatment he gets from manufacturers, he probably doesn’t want to say anything that will anger his corporate friends.

He gets paid by manufacturers to do these 'glowing' reviews! His videos now seem like commercials, theres very little honesty left in him! 5 years ago yes...now its all business and money...his getting boring now!

LOL this comment made my day

XDDDD

definitely saving that persons life tho

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​@Anders Fletcher Eventually, after telling them the quirks and features of CPR

It's giving Windows Vista

@@Chicken_4_Dayz god, yes exactly

Giving me a 2005 Ford Taurus

Reminds me of Windows Media Player. MB really should hire some proper designers.

2005? More like a 1992 Intrepid concept.

I 100% agree... the EV craze has made cars look and feel souless...like cars have becomes Ipads and tablets! Hang on to your old cars guys!

@@mohammedrahman5255 soulless? Okay gramps. Just becuase they dont male noise? They drive amazingly and their acceleration is so satisfying. Love my EV

I think the average design is pretty good actually. Look at Cadillac, Opel, Volvo, Mazda, Peugeot, Genesis lineup etc. This one here is awful yeah

@@jdveloz7015 Calm down Tina

Unless it will be even more depressing

At least the Honda Fit looks like a car. The EQX cars don't even look like anything at all.

They could do that, or alternatively they could do some modern take on the wheels they used back in the 70s on the W123 and W116. The old AMG-style wheels could then be reserved for the current AMG versions

Apparently the drag coefficient on some of those cars would also be industry leading today as well 😳

what part of any of this tragically disgusting design says "heritage" to you? I'm curious

@@untitled795 I guess they mean the heritage of MB as a whole, the EQE itself is quite ugly and does nothing to live up to old Mercs' heritage

@yash.kapoor this. I think the eqe and eqs look terrible, and really to me they remind me heavily of a smoothed out corolla. I think they could stand to have a few nods to MBs heritage here.

Genuinely thought the same thing while watching this. He keeps saying stuff that doesn't like up. "the screen is instant!" It isn't. "the 360 camera is amazing" shows a monster truck next to it. "the volume is sliders but they're great!" Volume isn't consistent. "it drives fine and is quiet!" Can easily hear road noise and everything else. Wtf was this review.

It really doesn't make sense.

It's very strange how glowing this review is.

Dougs a sell out! These days he just gets paid from manufacturers to do reviews and boost them! Then gets paid by the views we give him! Its all business now... initially five years ago his reviews seems honest and unbiased. Would tell you pros and cons!

“luxury car buyers will be happy with it”… not you (or me) :/

@mattchays6905 my 08 E class seems to be made with better materials and I got it for 6k lol

Same! Dreadful

Well, given the recent drop off in consumer interest in EVs, Mercedes already publicly announcing that the EQ brand will disappear in favor of electrified replacements for their gas cars after this single generation, the almost certainly ridiculous lease terms on these depreciation factories, and the totally disposable nature of current EVs, I doubt they will ever be common, and they will certainly disappear quickly.

​@@matthewbowen5841 it's crazy to me how many car companies are pushing fully electric cars despite the fact that we don't even have the infrastructure to support more and more ev's. Hybrid technology is pretty much proven at this point and I don't understand why we didn't go In that direction first

@@JJ_5289 Hand in glove, baby.

I dont think you pay for it too look different :)

@@martinsvensson6884 Status is a part of it with these luxury cars- and if petrol heads have to split hairs imagine non car people. I wouldn't pay for the EQS given this class dilution problem.

Just wait until the EQC comes out and it’s just an even smaller version of the EQS.

You obviously haven’t seem them in person. The size difference is very significant and they’re clearly different vehicles. Of course for some people all cars look the same and they can’t tell apart Honda from Kia. However most people can tell the difference. Traditional S-class or current EQS buyer aren’t really looking to show off. These cars are usually company cars. At least in Europe. Maybe in the US people explicitly want to show off with their car? Sounds kinda tacky.

Chicken egg versus duck egg

Where is that damn LoL emoji when you need it?!

He has questionable taste at the best of times...

He's a Mercedes guy. He's owned a number of Mercedes-Benz vehicles and worked for Porsche so he's never given one a bad review.

I think it's an attempt to keep in the MB dealer's good graces for future reviews. Good business decision, as not only do they give access to MBs, they may be part of a luxury car dealer group that provides access to many other brands, and the single dealer or group will be taking in many high doller trades and stocking high dollar inventory outside of the brand they sell.

I imagine someone promised him a Black Series test drive as quid pro quo.

My dealer group owns an MB store. They sent out a mass email to the entire organization about a special lease deal for the eqs and eqe for some fantastic deal giving them away. No one wants it 😂 they literally can not give them away

Umm you killed it

OMG, so much!

Very Amazon auto haha

I hadn't noticed until you pointed, but they really look ridiculous 🤣😂

Would make for a really bad EV...

The reason they didn’t do that is because it makes sense. Remember, nowadays companies/people do things that DON’T make sense purposefully.

They stress over range so much, i rather have less range and a good looking car than this abomination

@Chett_Manly_ yes it really would lol

Try driving a GLB. Its a very clearly compromised vehicle since the platform isn’t made for EV

Aerodynamics only?

Have you not been aware of what BMW has been doing over the past few years?

bmw somehow manages to be even worse lol, straight up 1/10s and 2/10s at best coming out of germany lately it seems especially with EVs. i thought the bmw i3 was horrible and somehow they managed to make even worse looking cars+audaciously act like peoples criticisms are unjustified

Fr why doesn’t it look so small

That's so true! I love how the numbers used to be an approximation of engine displacement. Now it's just some random bullshit.

Yes they could have rounded off the HP number and used that. Would make for familiar numbers to MB people also.

@@michaelfjmusic even Audi recently went from displacement to some shit like 55 tfsi for "more status"

@@michaelfjmusic Actually the numbers represent what size engine of naturally aspirated engine would be needed to develop the power on hand.

It seems to be a cheap plastic spring-loaded thing. I wonder if it locks with the doors like a 2011 Jetta S 2.slow's filler door or if they were too cheap for even that.

😂

True

Honda civic ahead of its time confirmed :)

Exactly what I see, good thing I'll never buy one of these mercs lol.

Yeah, it's all "round" like a civic of that era and smoothed over, kind of like a more bean like civic.

Same here. Also a bit like previous generation Honda CRV.

That and 0 frunk at all. Just so odd how so many can't figure out how to do EV's right and take advantage of the things they should. Charge ports should be near seamless (Tesla or Rivian), much less washer fluid surely shouldn't look like a port on body panels

Doug is the type of guy to talk about the quirks and features of the Mercedes EQE windshield washer fluid location in a separate 60 second Shorts video

reminds me of a washing machine

@@CH-qt4hr I know everyone has their own scenarios, but having had a 3 and then a Y going on 4 years now, the frunk has been used all the time, sometimes even just to have stuff on me, without it taken up primary space. Spring to Summer I keep my mountain biking gear, in it as it can be dirty, stink, etc and thus nothing smelling up the cabin. But ready to go any moment with helmet, shoes, tools, glasses, towels, etc up there. That and some cleaners/etc can all be up there, and still have the car and trunk, etc empty looking. Which is also good to avoid theft. Or when on road trips for weekend or camping, it's crazy how much can fit in there, keeping the passenger area more clear. Also the 'deep trunk' area is similar as it's like bonus space to fit things in, yet not affect the day to day use of passenger area or even trunk space from looking empty. F150 of course has an amazing large frunk, and for anyone actually using it as a pickup for contracting work, you can store bunch of tools/etc in there and still have your bed and entire cabin clear, and avoid theft as most people don't even know it's a storage area, much less what is in it vs in cabin or pickup bed.

Looked like Mercedes Benz sponsor video

He’s lost all credibility for me. It’s not the first time he’s overlooked and lied about stuff.

He gets paid to 'sell' these cars to you and me! He sold him self, his reviews are not honest...just commercials now for new cars!

I actually think the EQS looks better too. More elongated at least which helps. Neither is attractive to me, but this looks taller and stubbier than the EQS. It reminds me of cars like the 2nd gen (for the US) Honda Fit. While I actually really liked that car for what it is, the stubby, jellybean look does not work when the car is an $80-100,000 plus luxury sedan.

The LH cars at least had front and rear ends to balance the absurdly bloated middle. This is just bloat and stubs.

YES

Rich people virtue signaling transport pods.

Definitely should be making more than $100k to buy a car this experience.

Even Walter White wouldn't drive this car.

The running costs should end up a whole lot different though, especially in Europe...

​@@rkan2 still costs about twice what it should.

Check again lol

I've given this whole marathon through the comments section just to see this one. I knew I would find it. 😂😂😂

Nice you just copied my comment onlyfans bot, you're comment got 149 likes while mine got only 16 when my comment got deleted for some reason. Unfair how KZfaq treats it's users these days

Exactly, how he even called this attractive is beyond me. that camera made this car look like a tiny rc car in low res. And the cheap plastic is everywhere. He seems to have a soft spot for most electric cars.

What you guys are not thinking about so the fact you’re looking at a video, that’s compressed, then compressed again when uploaded to KZfaq, then compressed yet again, for you to be able to watch it. Regardless of video resolution, it’ll always looks much worse then it actually is. I saw it yesterday at the local dealer and I agree it’s super high res and looks amazing when in person. The video does not do it justice. That being said, the plastic piece is definitely there. BMW has better interior currently.

If this car was a Toyota or a Hyundai, he would've noticed that "drawback" right away. It's like he has a beef against Asian brands

​@@jc_47 He's been pretty kind to Asian brands as of late. However, he's had some strange takes regarding some recent German cars: "everyone hates the new M2 because of the fender flares!" This is definitely one that fits under the category as well

I think he's a Benz fan boy lol

huge fail on trying to be even a litte funny

"check out cars and bits instead"

Doug's the type of guy to criticize a stripper for the quality of her quirks and features.

@TwinTurbo Ray are you a stripper?

@pruhnav I agree. However, they probably had to design this egg to make up for the otherwise pathetic mileage range.

@@bderris that’s fair, but honestly there’s a lot of cars out there that don’t have an egg shape and still get incredible range. Take a look at the NIO ET7, looks hella nice, and gets like 620 miles of range. It does maintain decent looks while not sacrificing it all for range. This one is just outright bad design. They could’ve designed it better

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Just wait until the sticker backing peels and the clear plastic yellows. I'm certain that's how they give it depth.

Opening size - which is why recently I couldn't fit my mother's suitcase into the trunk of my girlfriends Prius C, but inexplicably I was able to put it in the trunk of my 2000 miata.

THANK YOU! I knew it reminded me of something.

Best to never buy evs with their horrendous battery life

Thank you! Cadillac and now Ford are playing the same silly game. GM is the worst in that a big part of the screen is a seperate screen devoted to light controls. What's the point? Its only useable for that one purpose, making it more screen-y than traditional light controls but not at all related to the actual screen in any way other than being a nearby screen. I have a 63" TV in the living room and 2 40 inch TVs in bedrooms. I can make them adjacent to each other. Does that mean I have a 143" TV?

Legend says Doug is the type of guy who is still sitting on the driver's seat and giving the car owner free permanent heated seat from Doug's body heat

This was a quick-n-dirty for the views attached to the uptick on launch interest. Nothing more. This is a slightly worse EQS with no notable differences other than size and available options, neither of which come across in a video review. It might as well not be reviewed. Just take everything anyone's EQS review said and apply it, plus smaller trunk and less options per dollar.

That panel is terrible. Imagine how Doug would grill a car company like Honda for having such a crappy dash (envision a bunch of Honda logos on a flat weird shaped panel). This is one of the worst values in the industry.

He gets paid by manufactueres?

It won't last 10 years

Imagine the cost of battery replacement on an electric Mercedes 💀💀💀

@@michaelfjmusic Reports say for the new Lexus EV transportation solution it's around $48k. In a $65k vehicle.

Congrats! Enjoy the car

Nice one, son!

I'm sorry.

Mercedes made a Prius

*"I've seen these on the Autobahn quite a few times now but their look still doesn*t grow on me"* When you saw these on the Autobahn, did you really start to hate on these people and wish you crashed into them?

You always claim to regularly see all the german cars that Doug reviews... Oh, and your "signature" is awkward and stupid.

@@automation7295 Nah, Road Rage is luckily rare in Germany and i don't hate that Car that much

@@IAmArray Now that you mention it, it does have a bit of a Prius in the Looks haha