►Follow us on Instagram @autogefuehl and @thomas.letsgo ►Subscribe here: ru-vid.com ►More Mercedes C-Class color and trim: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-72DgomxgHt8.html ►Compare the BMW 3-Series: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-IiEl81WFl50.html 00:00 C-Class W206 AMG-Line design 00:50 Avantgarde trim design 01:05 Length, suspension, rear-axle steering 03:09 Fake exhaust alert 03:28 Trunk sedan W206 04:07 Comparison estate T-Modell S206 04:07 Trunk estate T-Modell S206 06:03 Engines with PHEV 06:59 Interior 07:52 AMG-Line interior 08:12 Seats 09:04 Digital instruments 09:24 Comparison bright Artico MBTex seats 11:00 Cockpit overview with MBUX infotainment 13:44 HUD 13:54 Panoramic roof 15:11 Rear seating sedan W206 16:00 Rear seats estate T-Modell S206 16:50 2022 C-Class driving C300 4Matic #Mercedes #MercedesCClass Transparency note: Autogefühl videos are independent and free from editorial influence on opinion and rating. But since manufacturers enable us to do the reviews in the first place, for legal reasons this video is marked as _advertisement_.
I hope Mercedes replace the 1.5 engine 204hp in the C200 ASAP .. even before the facelift , the w206 gained more wight than w205 and that caused the acceleration numbers to be a shame compared with today standards…
You are 100% correct on the capacitive buttons Thomas, they are rubbish! The real reason why so manufacturers are using them is because it is cheaper than quality feeling buttons.
You need to repeat this in every review, Thomas - seriously. These capacitive buttons are just simple crap. And all car makers are using them now... gnargh...!
@@2squared Totally agree. Evolution gave people several channels of perception. Auto makers limit the client experience, keeping aside kinestetics and tactile perception and oveloading the visual channel. Mazda seems to give the exclusive product )
@@jandersen6802 You know what is and feels even cheaper?! A touch screen! Hello, Tesla. Be happy MB is still using buttons, even if they are capacitive.
Autogefühl videos always provide a lot of technical detail without being boring. I definitely agree with Thomas regarding "real buttons". It nice to be able to adjust functions by feel so I don't have to take my eyes off the road..
gloss black everywhere where you touch, capacity touch "buttons", stupid multi"buttons" on a steering wheel, no real HVAC... no! no! no! thomas you are maybe the only one complaining about capacioty touch buttons as a car reviewer, and i thank you for that! what a stupid trend.
I have a GLC as a hire car at the moment and it has just two capacitive buttons that you can swipe in any direction. They can be handy but they also mean you accidentally activate them whilst holding the wheel and invariably it skips your music track.
@@sbomorse For clarification, the complaint is over those haptic keys, that are not true individual buttons, but a single plastic cover cut into fake buttons. Its not only annoying to use, but looks and feels cheap.
I hate to say this, but sadly MB has gone way out of the line (and out of the present times) when it comes to pushing interior tech and such. It's just crazy, and many if us simply reject that kind of pushy approach.......
Forget it! It’s a great approach for the 4/5 lease people or fleet cars! You get the tech and can show it to your mates, and then drop it in 4 years…. I hate it
yeah, I find it disgusting. Artifical leather, piano black, digital gauges, no physical buttons, I really hate this kind of design ideas on newer cars.
Appears that the cost cutting side of things is really important to Mercedes Benz. Comparing to previous models, this one feels very "plastic". Those seat & air-conditioning buttons, general ergonomics seem really bad. 😔
@@Channel_Tube I had a W204. Cost cutting was apparent there as well. Mine had 28,000kms on and was so full of creaks and rattles. A lot more plastic was used when compared to the facelifted W203. My dad has a facelift W203 C220 cdi 2005 model. With 310,000 kms it has no rattles and feels way more solid than any C Class that came after it.
Yes, sometimes I wondered if it was coincidence, but it happens too often for it to be by chance! Surprised he didn’t have a blue pocket square or socks to match the blue cars!
Ciao Thomas, I collected last week my new GLB200d with "full spec" especially for the MBUX system . Normally (before Corona) i used to drive 40/45.000 km a year especially on highway, this year of course things are different . But it's one week now that i drive the car, and I tend to use (to my daughter big amusement) the "hey mercedes" system . Such as "hey mercedes it's too hot" and it lowers temperature one degree , "hey mercedes drive me to...." and it works, the gps is set correctly to that address . Even when i had fisical buttons in previous cars, anyhow you (at least for me) still look at your hands when you touch or move the button (of course not for door mirrors but for example AC system or GPS etc) . One good thing on the GLB is that you still have the touchpad to operate the MBUX and I use that also a lot, I have not seen the touchpad on this C class and I have to admit that would be a "minus" if it was not there, plus, very important there is a "fisical button" for the radio volume (i use that a lot) and for the AC fan speed . But as you mentioned you buy a mercedes most of the times for the way it rides , i came back to Benz after two BMW and a Toyota and it really feels like being "back home" .
Definitely with you, Thomas, on capacitive buttons. Watching the video, I can clearly see how it distracts your eyes from the road. Not good. I like the voice control in my BMW. It (mostly!) works well and stops you fishing around in the menus. If they can improve voice commands further that would be a big help. We need good journalists, like you, telling manufacturers the importance of simplicity and safety and hopefully they’ll change future models.
Really dont get this trend. They look ridiculous and every manufacturer seems to have the same idea apart from some exceptions - 3 series as the best / closest example.
I own a w205 and not buying this car because of the capacitive buttons. I went for BMW g22 which felt more like a real car despite it is now almost 2 years old design. Miss the good old cars, not these ‘engined playstations’
12:20 ayy, thomas is a fan of dash berlin too, great taste man, not even surprised, trance is exactly the type of music i would imagine him enjoying at moderate volume while driving carefully on german autobahns obeying every rule
can't see my 77 year old mother in law trading her current C class for this. Those haptic buttons are horrid. Will wait fo mid model reverse back to real switches.
such a massive improvement over the current one also while i definitely don't prefer capacitive buttons over traditional ones, i don't find them too difficult to use.
A very fair review of the new C class and I agree 100% on the excessive driver input required to navigate basic operations. The new 3 series has taken the right approach: give the driver the option to use either traditional knobs/buttons or the screens to access the basic and most used functions. The current B9 generation for Audi’s A4 has the same approach as BMW but I fear that the next generation of the A4 will replicate the all screen approach as the A6 or A8. On another note, Mercedes spends lot of money on focus groups to gauge the receptiveness of their target demographics on screens replacing knob/buttons. Perhaps the majority of potential mercedes buyers want the all screens approach?
Absolutely agree. I like the choice in my 3 series. 90% while driving, I use the iDrive knob. It is the easiest to operate ans doesnt cost me much concentration. In addition, the shortcut buttons around the knob are really good, blindly switching from map to carplay, to the home screen and so on. If youre on a standstill or a passenger you can still use touch easily. Plus: less cleaning!
its funny because mercedes is switching to this tablet capacity touch button interior exactly from the same approach as you are describing... they have it still in a a-b-glb class... thumb pads on a steering wheel, touch screens, voice, and that swiping pad in the middle of central console.
Totally agree that some controls need to be kept on physical dials/switches in order to allow the driver to maintain concentration on driving. This mania for putting everything on screens and touch buttons is dangerous.
Yes they are dangerous but so are push buttons like first who gets into the car and drive off and then play with the buttons? If your doing that then boy you should not have a car now if your going to drive you get on and set everything Bluetooth volume and everything not on the road they have button on the wheel which is safe and good now if it was no buttons there that would be different and dangerous. you just want something to complain
I'm missing the conclusion section at the end of each review. They give a good summary of the cars you drive and make a good closure for the review. Somehow the current reviews seem to stop a bit abruptly. Otherwise wonderful job! :)
It's illegal to use a phone, tablet etc in the UK when driving. I assume many other countries will be the same. This center console is just a tablet and I noted when Thomas was driving he was glancing downwards a lot. (I like the way BMW's have their screen on the dash). This combined with capacitive buttons is very poor design. I have trouble with fine motor control. This is not disabled friendly. Disappointed as I like the car otherwise and was thinking of getting one, currently have an E-class. Great video as always Thomas.
capacative buttons = HORROR. They want you to fiddle with it so you crash your car. As long as they hold on to these buttons, I’ll hold on to my present car with REAL buttons. if they don’t wanna change, I will take the bus. No cheap plastic car for me, thank you very much. Mercedes looks nice from far, but far from nice these days… Uh
The best reviews out there currently. Thomas, excellent job with helpful observations. Just bought an E cabriolet- it’s a beautiful car to drive first and foremost. Keep up the good work.
In the USA we would rather stab ourselves in the eye before buying a station wagon / estate :) But I guess I can see the charm due to its practicality. The sedan looks superb in my opinion.
In the US all they want is more SUV's. I have the C wagon in Canada and it gives you all the benefits of the GLC but with better handling, gas mileage, quickness, more fun to drive and doesn't look like everyone else. The only thing I don't have is the added road clearance, but unless you are going off road or on un-plowed roads right after a snow storm you really don't need it. The most off road that 99.9% of SUV drive on is gravel driveways or a rural gravel road. Not sure why the hate-on for wagons because SUV are really the family car for the past 20years. Wagons are enjoyed by people that are into sports or have dogs. In F1 the medical car duties are shared with the C63 wagon and the Aston Martin SUV, the MB looks way cooler.
They took the depressed look of their A-class, and smacked it onto their C-class. BMW is doing weird things with their grills, and Audi's design also seems lacking lately. Did the Germans lose their touch?
I'm a big mercedes fan but making the lineup look the same is something I can't stand by. The lack of distinction is really bothering me, inside and out
@@zenadrian4678 at this point it doesn't even matter. The fact is that the Lexus feels more premium. 4 cylinders and piano black doesn't sound like Mercedes-Benz to me... If people won't buy this car hopefully Mercedes-Benz will wake up and start building proper cars again.
@@kristians2704 as Thomas said it is unusable in this Mercedes-Benz because everything is touch 😅. This car's built quality is not up to par with the competition.
18:43 - We do not have air suspension anymore, but the adaptive suspension [...] really combines comfort and sportiness very well". Meanwhile camera shakes like crazy.
Totally agree with the “tech overload” over complication comment, I bought a new C class Coupe with all the bells and whistles and 4 years down the road I am still unearthing capabilities which I never knew I had or needed. Whilst some of the tech is great, next time it will be the basic package for me! Great review as always!
Drove it, really nice driving qualities, base models doesn’t have enough power. Engine seems very much tuned to the automatic, so forget the pedal shifters. The screens are fast and bright, the buttons I don’t mind at all. Usable pretty quickly without looking, like the sliding feature for the volume especially. Interior is very beautiful and clean, materials excellent, a very nice place to be, with a crisp and quick but not hectic feeling autogefühl.
Loved Your insightfulness, Thomas! Which other car-reviewer would notice the inclination of the screen, getting too hot to operate when under direct sunshine. My only advice would be- please integrate textual notifications in the video with a summary of the most important points (price, engine, consumption, acceleration, warranty). Keep up the fantastic work! 👏👏👏😁
Haven't tried capacitive buttons on cars yet, but I trust your judgment! I think non tech-savvy people might really hate them, while others may just find them "meh".
If you pay the same amount of money or less to buy a 3 to 4 years old used S Class, would you pick that over this? This is a very important question, so please try not to use personal preference as the answer. Thanks.
Thomas you are correct, radio volume, radio tuning, temp control, fan control are much better with a knob. Don’t understand the loss of knobs and buttons. Leather is a natural fiber, and it’s quite sustainable as it is a byproduct of meat production. Some of your non-animal fibers are actually more environmentally unfriendly when you consider what there made of, and how there produced, and some are very unfriendly to recycle.
Thank you very much for your interest in this topic. As a start, please tune in to what the animal leather industry tried to do here with our channel: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-nP_CvLlaFlI.html In general, depending on the animal skin grade, the animals are specifically raised for this matter. However even if meat would be the reason no.1 in other cases, the hide remains one of the most profitable body parts. That means: If manufacturers put animal leather in a car and you accept it as a customer, you give your money to an industry that earns money by oppressing humans, animals and destroys the environment, you make them more profitable. Also, if you turn the argument around "meat is the waste of the leather industry" you realize how biased the argument is. After all, would you care for which body part you would murdered? Or imagine someone robs you on the street and beats you to death - would it matter to you if it was for your Smartphone or for your purse? The animal agriculture industry occupies 2/3 of all farm land on this planet which cannot be used for direct human nutrition then. That is extremely inefficient. The no.1 cause for deforestation is the animal industry. It is also one of the biggest contributor to climate change. The amount of land, resources, energy and water being used is beyond imagination. If you are interested in how the animals are being treated and transported in the global leather industry, watch this footage: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-tkjCAmq1_8E.html Note that the footage is genuine and was recorded by a highly decorated investigative journalist in Germany I know myself personally. For the alternative, you can either use artificial fabrics which can be made from recyclables (we have already shown a lot of vehicles that use great fabric seats from PET-bottles etc.) or more and more also from plant-based materials (like Pinatex). And even if you would create a seat completely with petroleum without a recycling share, the amount of oil being used for that is nothing in comparing just to once fueling up your car. In practical reasons, fabric or microfibre seats are just more useful. You do not sweat in summer and it is not cold in winter. Not using animal skin on seats is a major issue of animal rights, human rights - and after all just of common sense what is better both for the environment and just more practical and more luxurious for the customer. We cannot change what we have bought in the past (that also counts for ourselves of course!), but with more information and compassion we can change how we decide in the future.
Two comments about my 2023 W206: 1) Those capacitive buttons are an absolute pain the the ***. You end up having to select, unselect, select again, unselect again. A royal pain! 2) The speed limit reading cameras, when you include it in the cruise control feature, are downright dangerous especially when there's a parallel road such as an entry/exit/toll-plaza where the camera reads the 25mph off-ramp speed as opposed to the 65mph speed on the highway. Guess what happens? Yes, you're doing 65mph, with a large truck behind you, and your car suddenly decides that it likes the 25mph limit instead of the 65mph and applies the brakes accordingly. That's not a lot of safety, is it? I disabled that part of the cruise control feature. That apart I love this car.
It drives better than a 3 series for my taste, I like the looks and everything but I will buy the new 3 series just because of the quality physical buttons and controls in BMW. A lot easier to live with on a daily basis. I will place the order in 2 months from now
8:58 No man, nobody can complain enough about the capacitive buttons. The warm, cheap feeling freaking finger print magnets without usability and tactile feel. They are 100% cost savings, they improve nothing but the OEM profits, which is the only thing OEMs care about as long as they sell. And if its every OEM who does that, then the consumer has no choice but to go for them, validating the suits' decision. Sad times.
Great review again Thomas! My favourite channel for my lunch break :) I completely agree with your comments on ''feeling home' and 'simplicity'. I have both new B-class and X2 and i feel way better when i drive the BMW, it is definitely a much better car and not being a ''smart phone''. I hate to push a lot of buttons before lunching the car (e.g. de-activating irritating lane assist). However i also recognize the B-class as a much practical and near-luxury level interim quailty. Also my wife doesn't like to use B class because of all those fancy but distracting stuff.
Please tell us when cars do not have a spare wheel. At night time in Australia, we can be 200 to 300 kilometres from a service station. Road side assist often does not extend to these areas. We can also be out of Mobile Phone range. A puncture repair kit does not repair all punctures, especially when side walls are slashed by debris or a rock. What is in the car's puncture repair kit? How do we re-inflate the tyre. Getting safely to one's destination is more important the car's speed potential which we cannot legally use anyway, or stereo system and it's controls.
Great job!! This is easily the most superior detailed review of the new C-Class that I've seen. All the others have been fanboy reviews. I'm only finally seeing the cons of this car in this video. Overall great redesign, but some things I don't think I could live with. I'll wait for the refreshes from customer complaints.
I spoke with a Mercedes-Benz engineer and she told me that more physical buttons are coming back for the 2024 models. And center console screen position will be physically-adjustable and come with a magnetically-attached/removable screen cover (for when the car is parked).
I don't know man, I love your videos but you might be just too old or too picky to get along with this model. I've had the car for a full day. No problems whatsoever with the sunroof, with the steering wheel buttons, with the mirrors adjustments, with the climate settings or with anything else you complained about in this video. Everything seemed perfectly though through to me, it worked perfectly and I didn't feel a difference to the worse with the capacitive buttons. You say it's too complicated, I felt like in heaven in it. It all depends on personal preference, how much you're into tech and corky stuff and how easy you adapt to anything new. I liked your review but I think you're not doing the car justice with all the complaining, because you make those things look like they're bad or broken or really hard to use and unintuitive, instead of making it clear that it is you who can't deal with all those things. It's not the car, it's not the tech, those things are perfect in the right hands.
You are absolutely correct about capacitive touch A distraction and harder to use in modern cars. Nothing is more intuitive than a button. Mercedes is following VW with the capacitive overload.
23:00 " You have more space in an E class" Maybe subjectively but when it comes down to the pure measurements the difference is actually not that big. In the rear the E class offers only 7mm more legroom and in interior width it is only 2cm more...
I am agree with you about buttons. The capacitive buttons that I like are the buttons of Audi on screen with aptic response. It is really well done, seems physical buttons.
Thomas, thank you for your honest reviews! Yes, I agree with you that physical buttons are better than software buttons. I received my 2021 E350 this summer and it is a tech overload to drive sometimes. The 2021 E350 has a few real physical buttons,, so that is good.. I appreciate the safety tech, but there is a steep learning curve (for me at least).... I am still trying to learn all of the feature and how to use them safely while driving. Adjusting settings with physical buttons are best in some areas.
Thank you Tomas, i feel the same way about cars currently. The automotive companies should offer a non-technical version of their cars. Electric windows and heated seats are ok...
Capacitive buttons are a step back IMO. Switches, especially ones you will brush over casually while driving, should be the norm - it's definitely more practical. This way is a case of overkill with touch activated switches - also with climate controls, which should be quick, instant. Completely unnecessary.
it has a extending leg bolsters, it folds up from under the seat. ive tested it and i think its better then the older model where all kind of stuff could fall inside and you must clean it every month
Could not agree with this review anymore! Finally someone that’s actually being honest and upfront about this new trend all cars are following, especially Mercedes. Very disappointed with Mercedes as I love the technology in my current W213 E class.
Absolutely agree Thomas: a car is not a smart phone. So...get rid of that tablet thing on the dash and capacitive buttons and bring back real buttons, switches and swivel wheel.
