Affected by the epidemic, the Beijing Auto Show, which originally opened this month, was forced to postpone, and the three "hard goods" prepared by the BBA for the Beijing Auto Show could only be unveiled online.
Mercedes-Benz, as the big brother, officially debuted the EQ family's flagship SUV model, the Mercedes-Benz EQS SUV, the day before yesterday. However, after trying the Mercedes-Benz EQS sedan and watching this car debut, my heart has only one sentence: the Mercedes-Benz flagship model in the context of the 21st century electrification is this?
Think of that year, Mercedes-Benz design is to lead the development of the automotive industry, a ten-generation Mercedes-Benz S W222 interior, feed how many domestic brands of models and designers, today some of the domestic hot selling models like tank 300, shadow leopard interior can find the shadow of Mercedes-Benz. But in the era of electrification, I don't know whether it is because we have seen too many domestic brand models avant-garde, radical design, or the design itself is not brilliant, in short, the overall design of this Mercedes-Benz EQS SUV, giving people the feeling of being unremarkable, like the night after the passion is tasteless.
Of course, you can't say that the design of the Mercedes-Benz EQS SUV has reached the point of ugliness, a large area of closed grille, three-pronged star emblem dotted in it, the through-type daily travel light strip extends from the headlight group, the mercedes-Benz huge LOGO is embedded in the grille, and the two sides below the front of the car are equally large inlets. None of these elements seemed to have any problems alone, but on this car, my intuitive feeling: emm, that's it.
However, the EQ family's front face design language, the visual experience on the SUV is much better than on the car.
On the side of the body, this EQS SUV does not look slender or burly, but the overall is rounded. Its body size has reached 5.12m in length and 3.21m in wheelbase, but like EQS, it really doesn't look big, and my colleagues and I even think that this car looks like a GLC, and the words we used to modify the Mercedes-Benz flagship in the past, such as atmosphere, modesty, elegance, and stability, should not be used now.
Like the EQS, the EQS SUV has a wiper inlet on the left wing. The hidden door handles and foot pedals are also not absent, and the wheel hub is quite unique in style, which is said to be to reduce the wind resistance and ensure the mileage of this car.
Come to the rear of the car, the design is much simpler than the front of the car, a through-type LED tail light group as the "protagonist", the style of the light group is not complicated, the middle of the light strip with a little curvature, below is the Mercedes-Benz logo. Interestingly, on the rear bumper we can see two similar exhaust port decorations, from the platform to say that this car is not an oil to electric model, such a design from the designer's "existence must have meaning" point of view, it seems to be a tribute to the fuel model, but whether there is this necessity is debatable.
The overall design language of the EQS SUV is similar to the EQS, you will feel that this is like a "pull up", more rounded EQS sedan, in the era of electrification under the drastic design changes, the design of this car personally feels that it can only be regarded as a pass, and the "car inventor" This high-level identity should be a little far away.
However, the interior design of the EQS SUV is as amazing as the EQS, and this "stunning" is mainly derived from the 1.41-meter-long "big color TV" in the car, and it should be known that the width data of this car is only 1.95 meters. Unlike Tesla and BYD's large screens, Mercedes-Benz's "big color TV" almost runs through the entire center console and is huge in size, with a 17.7-inch OLED central control display, a 12.3-inch dashboard and a 12.3-inch co-pilot screen, allowing you to sit in the car and have a feeling of being in the theater.
The sense of technology and atmosphere is indeed full, but from the experience of EQS cars, such a large screen will also bring a lot of oppression, whether you like it really depends on personal preferences, our colleagues after experiencing EQS, some people like some people complain, but the big screen is indeed an electrification, digital trend, Mercedes-Benz as the leader of the car industry in the fuel vehicle is also in the full "big screen".
In terms of practicality, this large screen is very good in the resolution, clarity, and UI design on the EQS, and the EQS SUV uses the same system, 8-core CPU and 24GB of memory and NVIDIA Xavier AI chip, and there will be no difference in performance. But if you compare it with the new forces ideal, Weilai's car machine feature richness and playability, then this car machine system is still almost interesting. Such a large screen, even a Carplay is indeed a bit of a waste, I connected to Carplay when I experience EQS, the car machine will be a little stuttering phenomenon, I don't know what kind of performance will be on the EQS SUV.
In official terms, the interior materials of the new car are matched with high-grade leather and wood to highlight the sense of luxury, in fact, from the look and feel, the luxury of the interior is very in place, especially after the blessing of the Mercedes-Benz atmosphere lights, the sense of luxury overflows the screen.
However, from the perspective of the EQS real car experience, the touch of these so-called high-grade leathers is indeed average, and the thickness of the material is not positively correlated with its millions of prices.
I have also reflected on this problem, the current 200,000 or so domestic cars, casually take out a car interior is "a soft to the end", many cars of workmanship and materials are very thick, texture performance is also quite good (of course, the material of the material may be different from Mercedes-Benz, but the tactile experience to the user is the same). This can be spoiled people, after experiencing EQS, the leather texture on the rear door panel, let people exclaim "this is not the same as the texture of 100,000 domestic cars", you can say that I do not know the goods, say "Mercedes-Benz This is XXX environmental protection material composite", but some things seem to be only able to see the results.
Let's talk about the most likely big bug on the EQS SUV that has not yet been experienced, that is, the "seat". This car is standard as a five-seater model, the third row of seats can be added to the optional, after the optional is a three-row seven-seater car. Judging from the pictures, the seats of the EQS SUV are the same as those of the EQS.
After we experience EQS, its rear seat is the highest degree of spit part, the backrest is very straight, the material is hard, ergonomics is a mess, coupled with the rear line of sight, small head space, EQS back row you basically can not find a comfortable sitting posture to enjoy the huge legroom, you can only sit like me very "dignified" front seat, in order to have a less suffocating experience. The famous saying of "drive a BMW, ride a Mercedes" in the past has disappeared on EQS.
The EQS SUV is likely to encounter the same problem, but fortunately, its head space has been improved, and the rear seat back angle can be adjusted by 28 degrees, hoping that the second row will not be as bugged as EQS. As for its third row, the high probability can only be emergency.
In terms of power, the EQS SUV, like the EQS, is divided into two models; the EQS SUV 450+ and the EQS SUV 580 4MATIC, the former is rear-wheel drive and the latter is dual-motor four-wheel drive. The 450+ model has a maximum horsepower of 360Ps and a torque of 568N·m, while the 580 4MATIC has a maximum horsepower of 543Ps and 858N·m.
The battery capacity of both models is 107.8kwh, and the cruising range under WLTP conditions is 660 kilometers, which is decent from the data point of view. Officially, when the EQS SUV uses DC fast charging, 10% to 80% of the power only takes 31 minutes, and the charging efficiency is quite high, but whether this value can be achieved also depends on the actual performance of the charging pile.
EQS SUV as the flagship model of the current Mercedes-Benz electric products, it is also equipped with a full range of rear wheel steering system, the steering angle of the rear wheel steering in the optional special kit, the maximum can be as high as 10 °, the slewing diameter from 11.9m to 11m, from the EQS experience, although the car is more than five meters long, but the flexibility is not bad at all, the turning radius is very small. In terms of suspension, the new car adopts a four-link front suspension and independent multi-link rear suspension design, equipped with AIRMATIC air suspension with continuously adjustable damping, matching five dynamic control options.
In terms of driving experience, Mercedes-Benz is indeed a strong point, EQS gives people a very good driving experience, the power output is linear, the turning radius is very flexible, the chassis texture is very outstanding, the tough Q bounces like I chewed gum in elementary school for a morning, mercedes-Benz's centuries-old accumulation of chassis skills have not regressed like its design level, and the NVH of the whole car is excellent. So on the EQS SUV, its driving experience must not be bad.
As a flagship SUV model created by Mercedes-Benz under the pure electric platform, this EQS SUV and EQS have many things in common, the Mercedes-Benz design in the era of electrification is no longer an outstanding existence, the design of the whole car is kneaded together, and it is not topped a Mercedes-Benz car logo to give people a sense of honor to get in place, and at the same time in ergonomics, vehicle-machine interconnection and material workmanship, EQS SUVs and EQS have some small problems.
Fortunately, there are also Mercedes-Benz's century-old driving and coaching skills to bless these two cars, but the price of more than one million still puts a question mark on the fate of these two cars. Such a Mercedes-Benz, will China's local tycoons still start?