Mercedes, don't be mad. But... - Mercedes EQS 2022 

I have never seen a review that said: "I like the capacitive touch buttons over regular buttons" so at this point I don't know why manufacturers still think those are nice and a good idea.

Man I love the split second that Alex could keep a straight face when Dennis said "I want to feel the balls"

Yep…the capacitive buttons are ridiculous in a car at that price. The whole thing reminds me of a Blackberry Storm.

Mercedes: we've spent millions developing a full screen gamer style virtual heads up display that actively overlays direction arrows over the road LTT: turn it off

The most important part of this video is Alex continuing to roast companies over the uselessness of touch controls in a car. The best part of this video is bringing Dennis in as the massage expert

"Is that deep enough for you?" "I don't feel the balls" Oh lordy

Fun fact: The rear cup holder being “jammed” is intentional. You press it in once for a pen holder, and a second time for the cup holders. Kinda strange but that’s what it is.

Every time shortcircuit drops a video on an ev, i am reminded of 3 things 1) Alex drives a golf GTX 2) Alex is over 6 feet tall 3) Car manufacturers are forgetting the very basics of making a car and butchering practicality for gimics

I think Alex' perspective is really refreshing compared to other automotive reviewers. However, I doubt the EQS' customer base shares/recognizes much of his criticism. Alex seems to really value the characteristics of a hot hatch / sportscar, whereas this car is everything but that.

Andy: "Hey Mercedes" Mercedes:"How can I help?" Andy:"I want to go home" Mercedes:"Oh, wry, Gods" Andy and Alex:"What was that" It was the funniest part of the video!!!

1:16 Expensive 2022 Mercedes still having lagging displays is truly unacceptable.

The LTT Lab notes were a nice touch! Really enjoyed the extra info!

2:38 for those confused, yeah it’s 107, not 170

I started smiling when he talked about bringing a massage expert because I knew who it was 😂

8:29 forget the car, that's a cool soundtrack, what is it? (for anyone wondering, I think the remix song is from Maria Callas - Carmen (Habanera) (Chuy Ayala Remix) That's the closet remix I'm able to find, if someone can find the exact song, pls let me know

Seeing the labs graphs come up for the audio was so great. Really looking forward to seeing this kind of detail and review data/normalization when discussing products.

12:54 i think you guys colored either the graph or the legend of the EQS and S90 in the opposite colors, because it shows the EQS in purple having very good sub bass and the S90 with less bass below 40hz

I really like Alex's reviews. He talks about the things that matter when driving a car 👍

I had the chance to test the EQS. I agree with a lot of what you said. One thing I did like about the car is that with inteligent recuperation, I basically didn't need to brake. The driving assistance feels helpful more often than it feels annoying. Which was a first for me.

YES I LOVED THE LABS GRAPHS! That has me SO pumped for seeing results on audio equipment, it's my favorite part of looking up Rtings reviews!

The thing I really like about these car "reviews", ignoring Alex, because he is a delight every time we get to see him. Is that you bring on different, connoisseurs if you will to discuss certain features. Loved seeing Dennis in this one.

Oof ... the short flash of the BMW iX was like a jump scare with that grill xD

The cup holder in the back wasn't jammed, it was designed that way. The first click is a pen holder then you give it a half click to get the cup holders. Not sure why its like that but it is what it is. Having the lumbar controls in the screen allows you to adjust the lumbar to a more specific spot to help pinpoint specific spots. The MBUX infotainment is very intuitive and easy to use. Yes there are a lot of sub menus but its easy to figure out.

"You can literally fry yourself to death if you open the hood"... "Hilarious, let's open the hood!"

At 12:54 there seems do be an error. According to the context given by Alex and the previous graph I think the colors of the graphs for EQS and S90 were switched. Otherwise great information from ltt labs!

That Dennis massage tips part was ripe for some low hanging innuendos.

*I half expected a big BOOM! when he started to open that hood.*

Love the ltt labs note. Cannot thank you guys enough. It is the greatest information addition about audio. Thank you very much.

My first TownHouse was 119k… that about sums up my thoughts on this. Also I imagine this in a commercial with Shaq saying it’s got plenty of room with him getting inside and his head sticking out of the sunroof 😅

Loved the labs stuff but can be kinda annoying to keep pausing the video to read. I am not saying you should remove it from the video all together, but maybe provide a transcript of the notes somewhere where it is easily readable, like a complementary blog or something.

Love the sound quality graphs, and using the volvo as a baseline / relative target helps. As a sound luddite, this kind of comparison tool helps immensely in determining 'better vs worse', at least for me. Keep on adding objective metrics like these to your vids please! :)

5:31 OMG i almost died how perfect that was!

The 170KWh showed would really be absolutely crazy capacity ^^

Great review and amazing editing! You guys have come a long way since the first car reviews and its really showing, can't wait to see where you'll be in the next few months!

Great video! I loved the shots of the car, the angle when Denis got into the car, and I am so excited to see more audio testing from LABS hell yeah. I think the editors should add little coloured bars to indicate when the next "slide" of the labs results are going to appear next.

Hey, I met Andy at a quick charger after they shot this video! To be honest, I never would have guessed that the car cost that much from when I saw it; even on the outside, it just seems kinda like a cheap VW with a bit of a facelift. Though to its credit, the underglow and ground-projected logo that appears when you open the doors was actually kinda cool and managed to not look tacky the fact that they block you from getting under the hood is ridiculous though, stuff like this is exactly why we need tougher right to repair legislation.

The screen makes me wonder, how will the Apple CarPlay update work with this car? Also, I love how Dennis was the one to judge the message function given his Intel Extreme Tech Upgrade.

I think I know why the capacitive touchbuttons move. Feels like they tried to struck a middle ground between buttons and touch. So you know when you pressed it. Of course it seems to fall flat by the point that you still have to actually look where you press...

So much traditional automaker feel crammed into a futurecar that as you say it just seems to break stuff. Editors: Awesome topgear/grandtour vibes on the glamour b-roll delivering the feel of driving while also being interesting. Awesome work.

8:23 Is this yours? Whose remix is that? I love it!

Fun fact: Mercedes has a patent on the sound it's car doors make when you close them

Love alex's review and the lab notes ! Really great review !

Nice to see the lab already bearing fruits with this frequency response graph and all the description with it! Good job!

I love that your test drive took you through the posh neighborhood where people are riding horses along a trail next to the road.

god damn we need more of dennis

Love this test! And I love to see that you show the frequency graphs for the audio systems. This was the first time I saw this. Here in Germany the EQS is at the moment the best of all according to some car journalists. But they didn’t show the touch capacitive steering buttons or the cheaped out buttons or talk about the difference between base model and equipt model. And sometimes thy praise the software. But what you showed doesn’t look like even close to be the best. In my opinion this is overall a great car. But in certain spots it doesn’t live to it price batch.

Well I drove the eqs aswell and also found the brake feel a little weird. But you can actually change the regenerative braking with the "shift pedals" so just using one pedal driving is very usable. Also I missed the sub base but maybe because I am just a 19 year old bass lover. Overall this is a very nice car for S class customers that drive for themself and maybe have a assistant always next to them. Kinda like a youtuber that travels a lot with their cutter/cameraman. It feels like its very well tuned for german roads and autobahn where you can use the great fast charging network of europe. In the US and Canada it's probably pretty lost for this, with a lack of really fast chargers. It's not a car to daily to work rather to travel from city to city

Love the car videos! Keep them coming!

Unless you're Linus....😂😂

The reason they don’t want you to open the hood is because they scrimped on the paint job 🤣

Uses for the Lab: 1) Driving cars into the warehouse for an indoor car filming space 2) Running a LAN party and pop-up screwdriver store

Love the car reviews with Alex, Great video, tanks a lot 👌

Here's one thing I'm not entirely clued up about that bugs me.... They claim that EV cars look slightly weird because they need to have less drag coefficient and aerodynamics... But why aren't they making ICE cars as aero efficient as possible? We could of been having ICE cars that looked like these that would be getting better mileage for years now right?

would love to start seeing write ups of the LTT labs data with the accompanying video as it can be hard to appreciate the data in a video format

Love these tech/auto videos! Keep em comin!

LOVED the LTT Labs Notes.... I can't wait to see more of this!

In Germany they were the first to implement level 3 automated driving with this one and the s class. You definitely should take a trip down here and try it. It’s freaking amazing.

The LTT Labs measurements and comments are great! Love it!

alex and the editors really channeling theyre inner jeremy clarkeson this video, with that boot review referencing a mob boss hiding bodies and the driving montage. getting real top gear vibes

Love the new LTT labs content! Very excited for the future of it.

I hate that there is no going under the hood, they're trying to iPhoneafiy cars "Fixing doesn't happen often, so fuck it let's make it hard and expensive as hell to fix the tiniest things and make excuse about how you might get hurt or damage something"

As soon as he talked about the adaptive breaking, I knew this isnt it. One thing almost everyone will hate is if your brake pedals isnt consistently smooth. Makes you feel so much less in control of the vehicle and much less safe.

"Lets go deeper" "I can't fell the balls"

" I want to feel the balls" my oh my Lol, that had me in stiches🤣

My dad is in his fifties and recently bought an EQS. I think he's the perfect audience for this car, he's had his sports cars but now he just wants to drive around in luxury in an electric car. And it really is pure luxury, sitting in this car feels like you're floating on the road in absolute silence.

"Is this deep enough for you?" "I can't feel the balls, I want to feel the balls. I want to feel a little pain" That was EPIC! I can't stop laughing xD

i love the chaotic vibe Alex is giving in this whole video.

I love Alex's car review videos!

Love the LABS stuff really great for audio folks like me. Quick side note at 12:50 there's a spelling error in the top right corner.

"hey mercedes" moment are priceless, love you guys :3 Thanks for the content, as always ;)

Having lived in Surrey and Langley for a while. It's so much fun to see bits of it in this video.

Glad to see you're constantly tweaking your target curves for car audio.

I love your energy

I've watched all of these electric car reviews and just wanted to say that I love seeing Alex review these cars. I had no idea there were so many electric cars on the market and I'm glad someone is taking the time to find out how good or bad they are so I don't have to.

really cool that lab 2 is big enough to do the car review stuff on a rainy day

good review~ keep up guys!

Love the audio graphs! Having a labs website for the audio and colour data you collect will be great!

Me in my 1997 sub compact hatchback, that cost me $1000, regardless of seating position: ah yes there is room for my head in here Alex in a brand new electric Mercedes that costs $123,000 USD sitting in the back: ah yes my head is against the roof and will slam into it if we hit a bump. I want electric vehicles to be available, especially in countries like this one where not owning a car puts you at a severe disadvantage due to lack of public transit, lack of bike paths, frequently long distances between residential and commercial zoning, and lack of sidewalks in high traffic areas. Well ideally I'd like all of those things to be fixed but since that's not gonna happen electric vehicle proliferation becomes important. Before someone like me would ever make that jump though they have to be 1)significantly less expensive 2)run as few things through a computer as humanly possible. I don't need heated seats, massage seats, a giant screen for satnav and stereo, a screen for a gauge cluster, or basically anything else that would reduce failure by not being so "futuristic". Not to be an old man here, but I've got no power steering, a manual transmission, crank windows, fully mechanical door locks, a key that doesn't require a chip to start the car, lights that have to be manually activated, a passable sound system, no ABS brakes, rotor ignition, and good fuel economy (34 city, 42 highway) and I like it.

"it's good if wanna have a nap while driving" I CAN'T

The Devil: I like nobody The guy who decided capacitive touch controls on a steering wheel is a good idea* The Devil: That's my boy

At least it doesn't suffer from porpoising.😏 Also, the "can you fit a body on inside the trunk" part. Very Top Gear-ish (the Clarkson, May, and Hammond version), very nice.

Seeing ltt labs data make me so excited for future. Also dear God so many ev coming out with so many problems. So glad for these videos to criticize all of them and hopefully get these companies listening

"Unless you are Linus Sebastian" joke, really well delivered.

A surprisingly comprehensive review. Thank you for the amazing video 👍😊

Seriously have these car reviews nailed, whole thing was entertaining! Props to Alex!

Alex is such a good host. I love this series

Alex is genuinely really good at these reviews. I’m an avid car guy and tech guy and I really like how he blends both coming from LTT.

You really ought to integrate the labs data into the videos more. I've always thought that with your hardware reviews as well, where there's hardly any visual cues, and the link between the script and the graph on screen isn't always obvious. Trying to listen to the host usually just ends up with me not having understood any of the graphs, really. On that point, Gamers Nexus's habit of drawing attention to a specific part of the graph at exactly the moment the host mentions something relevant about it is really great. Also the fact that they stay on screen for more than, like, three seconds, really helps. You guys really tend to underestimate the time people need to assimilate a graph. Especially if they're being distracted by the host talking. Anyway, this Labs stuff brings this to a whole new level. It wasn't understandable at all without pausing for a very long time very often, and even then. There were acronyms I didn't know because I'm just not very knowledgeable about audio. You have to pick one way of doing things: does the video have time to include and properly talk about graphs? If the answer is no, don't try to cram it in along with the scripts. People cannot read and listen to different information as the same time effectively. Make it a long subsection of the video at the end, when only interested people will still be watching, or a companion piece, or something.

I want to see Linus review it ...it will be interesting if he has gotten already the tycan wagon as a daily

Yes another great Alex car video :DDD

"if we roll over, I die".... Very blunt 🤣

"Unless You're Linus Sebastian it is gonna be real big problem sitting back here" Made my day.

I actually don't own a car. However I really really like your car reviews. I also don't even want to own a car, BUT for some reason I really enjoy watching the reviews. It's a bit refreshing from all the usual hardware, and it's actually interesting what cars are capable of these days in terms of tech. I honestly am more interested in the cars interior than exterior or performance metrics.

As a car guy I love this review. I love my ICE engines. I love my V8s and Audi supercharged 3.0T v6 however I'm excited to see what electric counterparts we can have along side ICE for the average non-car guy/gal. I was expecting this to be like every other tech channel's review of electric cars "Ohh big screen. Ohh technology. Ohh this!" but you very critical of options being hidden in infotainment, Mercedes' effort to stop customers working on their own car, and the capacitive buttons and lack of physical controls, especially climate controls. I've tried cars with climate controls in a screen and it doesn't work. Physical controls are just miles better (pun intended). Thank you for a real review of the car as a whole and not just looking at the shiny screens and technology.

THANK YOU for the very honest reviews!!

Question: can they do an over-the-air update to improve the consistency braking curve? Or would they have to do it at a service facility?

I wonder how much those front license plates you guys have to use hurt the drag coefficient.

I love cars, and I love PCs. LMG is perfect for me. And I especially love that you guys aren't afraid to be really critical of the cars you review. A lot of the traditional car magazines tend to be nice to the carmakers and not mark the cars down in areas where they are bad, probably for fear that they won't get sent future models for review. I know Linus doesn't give a rat's ass about that so hooray for us, consumers!

Labs data

My E-Class has the hood latch hidden too, I always just thought it was for aesthetics. By the way, It says EQS-580 on the back, and if that car is similar in spec to their 50+ deciliter displacement AMG E-Class sedans, that price is less extreme than it seems. An E63 AMG is over $100,000, but the EQS-580 probably has a little less horsepower.