Mercedes EQS Design Review

[@oscarsjoberg4288]

I think the two tone colour can work, but the weird transition over the front house wheel seems like it breaks the shape flow

[@FormTrends]

Yes. It’s not the two-tone per se. it’s the way they treated it. Poor resolution. Fortunately it’s only on the First Edition models.

[@julianton3340]

To be clear about a single aspect - the two-tone scheme executed in this way does not work well on the EQS. This has become common sense. But if you choose a (recommendable) dark one-tone colouring like e.g. Navy Blue, Black or Dark Grey, especially in combination with application of chrome, the EQS looks just phenomenal and very elegant. Another thing I have noticed, just when I have seen the EQS personally and in reality on the road coloured in Navy Blue, that it looks so much better in real than on photos or videos. There are some cars that for (whatever reasons) look much better in real than on a photo. I guess for the EQS the reason for that are the challenging proportions, that make the car look bean-like on a photo or video, but actually low, slim, stretched and elegant in reality. Check it out in real again and you might revise your judgement about the EQS its contraversial exterior design! 😉

[@simonhodgetts6530]

The interior is information overload in the extreme - what’s wrong (if the car is fairly autonomous) in having a minimalist interior - it could even just display one thing at a time, if, frankly, the driver isn’t meant to interact with the thing?

[@FormTrends]

There’s certainly a lot going on. And the driver is actually meant to read and interact with it. The colorful lighting is further distracting as well. I agree it’s too much for a car interior.

[@julianton3340]

1. You can always, completely switch off screens, which you don‘t use. 2. You can choose the other, more reduced cockpit option with the tablet design in the centre and wood trim. 3. This car and design is not mainly made for European customers and their taste, but for Asians and Americans, who are much more enthusiastic about digital features and fancy UX design.

[@thebeartruth7192]

The mark has been very much missed with EQS. Forget the two tone, the rest is terrible. I love the interior. I love the specs. I’m angry that I can’t ever consider the car. Especially now I’ve seen one in the flesh. Massively uninspiring.

[@kevinpugh1129]

It looks like a 2000s Honda Civic.

[@shardoolparashar8323]

It’s ugly, it looks like a blob and that two tone gave me permanent eye burn. It doesn’t communicate that it’s a Mercedes by any means. I seriously need a time machine.

[@TheFaxoy]

What's the point of having a 0.2 drag coefficient when you are buying a high end luxury electric car? You obviously don't care about cost and effinciency when buying a mercedes, you want the class and the best of engineering that come with it right, they could have definitely used 0.05-8 more drag coefficient to get some better design element in the exterior of the car. The concept was great and there was nothing impossible to make in the production car, so why make it look like another generic chinese copy car of a simple berline, I mean are we back in the early 2000? Is that what people want?

[@h10productions25]

Do you not understand that its an electric car??

[@FormTrends]

It's all about being "the best". The Cd is the best in class, though arguably this has come at the cost of a "luxury" aesthetic

[@sports2hedz542]

It's not the form per se it's how they designed the elements into that form. The lights look like a 2000s Ford Focus, the rest of the front end a bland Ford Taurus. Did they dig an old Ford designer up from his grave?

[@julianton3340]

1. You simply NEED this very aerodynamic shape for maximising range, which is demanded by all electric car customers - this is valid also and especially for long distance drivers like S-Class drivers, senior sales people and so on. 2. The EQS Concept looks very sexy, futuristic and beautiful indeed. But it was a typical show car, a designer‘s wet dream so to say, because it is far far too low in height for a mass production car (with a huge battery pack in the floor 100-150 mm high and without a cut out „foot compartment“ as in the Taycan) that can conveniently be used in every day life.