02-16-2022, 12:04 PM | #1 |
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What's the best luxury EV? BMW iX vs Mercedes-Benz EQS (Autocar)
Autocar take a look at which is the most luxury EV
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02-16-2022, 12:16 PM | #2 |
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why does the EQS look like an 8th or 9th generation Honda Civic?
I guess to maximize aero...
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02-16-2022, 12:47 PM | #3 |
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Totally agree with you. Watched a detailed review of the EQE last night and, like the EQS, it's just plain downmarket looking. Like a 2000's era mid-size Japanese sedan. Personally I really dislike the direction MB is taking with their EQ lineup...
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Edit: The reviewer is complaining that you have to go into the touch screen menus to turn the lane keeping assistant on. That's wrong though right? You can just push the assist button on the steering wheel. I tried that feature out today in my test drive. Last edited by PhilD; 02-16-2022 at 04:55 PM.. |
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Right now in my 2019 X5, the voice commands are far from perfect; no reason to expect that they will work perfectly in the iX. |
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The good news is the continuing evolution of assisted (Level 2) driving and voice commands as automakers progressively use a touchscreen interface for car functions. Ultimately this allows the driver to make adjustments - more - safely when driving while fractionally removing their attention from the road. We still did this with the old, conventional buttons - many times you needed to look down or away from the road to find a button - we just adapted to, sort of, keep half an eye looking forward while glancing down or sideways to find the button. We also accommodated to "feel," getting familiar with where everything was located in a car so we could find a button in relation to something else by touch, but not all buttons allowed this. I particularly like BMW's implementation of the pop-ups to identify the Quick Set buttons on the iDrive screen when you touch them, so you can kind of "feel across the row" to identify what you want. But you still need to momentarily take your eyes off the road to look at a screen, just like with the Nav (here the HUD is worth its weight), or even briefly glancing at the instrument cluster - when you are looking at your gas gauge, you are not looking at the road. We all did, and do this, balancing taking our eyes directly from the road in front to look at something in the car for fractions of a second. The key is that "fractions," and where the something we are looking at is physically located. Good ergonomics is important - Audi elected for a touchscreen interface (replaced somewhat by physical buttons), but placed the screens basically at knee level, requiring the driver to look down, a long way from the front view.
I don't particularly care if a control button is virtual or real, as long as it's in my driving vision and I know where to find it. The fact that the car will keep me in my lane for the 0.25 seconds it takes me to push it, or allows me to tell the car "activate '"x" feature, it is a positive development in the evolution of cars, and it's becoming better with each generation. |
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02-17-2022, 08:52 AM | #11 |
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I saw an EQS on the street yesterday...the first one I have seen in the wild. I think the outside actually looks pretty good. But the rest.......nah.
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The EQS580 is an amazing car. I took delivery on Tuesday. Best car I have owned. You can see my signature for the kind of cars I have owned previously.
It also looks pretty amazing. The car is very long, wide and low. Gives it a modern sleek look. I took my wife out to Atlas at the St Regis last night. As I was walking in I notice other patrons taking their photos with my car before the valet drove it away.
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Not really a 'vs' thing, isn't the EQS about twice the price of the iX? Also EQS isn't a SUV so there's that too. Love all the screens in the EQS though - that's pretty sweet.
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MB will never be on my shopping list for one simple reason. My wife went to graduate school in Berlin and now can't look at any Mercedes without thinking "taxi".
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03-02-2022, 02:41 PM | #17 |
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iX starts at low-mid $80's, EQS is just above $100k.
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Even though the screens look cool, especially if you want to impress your friends, but functionally, I think BMW with the iDrive controller is easier to use. Sometimes, I prefer using the controller rather than the touch screen. And less finger prints too
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