Mercedes S-Class 2021 review - the best car EVER?

This is the new Mercedes-Benz S-Class and it's a bit of a peacock because it's effectively Mercedes putting on a display to its competitors like BMW and again, yeah, look at me guys, wonderful, look what I'm capable of now in this. video I'm going to talk to you about its exterior design. I'm going to show you the inside. I'm going to try out some of their technology and see how luxurious it is and of course take it for a spin. Now, if you are thinking about buying a new car, click on the pop-up banner there to go to Car Wow, where we can help you decide which car to buy and help you save a lot of cash too or if you want.

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ything is a bit controversial, people complain on the Internet and say: "Oh my God, I hate the way it looks, to tell you the truth, I wasn't convinced by the rear of the car when I saw pictures, but here I see it" . in person I've changed my mind I like it look at the details on these taillights look oh it's so complex I love that that's really cool but I just want to be sure of one thing wait a minute thank god these are real exhaust pipes here they still have an exaggeration of an environment, it doesn't matter, let's continue to the side, you will see that the body panels are very smooth, look at this,

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ything is very smooth, apart from this strong crease that runs under the windows on this particular one.

The car is a long wheelbase version, in fact, nine out of ten classes sold are long wheel cars because it is obviously used as a chauffeured car. I like this chrome trim. The bottom here looks very elegant. Did you see that look? We have Poppy Innie and Auty. The door handles disappeared like a tesla, sorry Mercedes, I like these wheels, it's a nice design, you have diamond cuts so you have two tone, very very stylish, but now we come to the most controversial part of the car. On the front, you see that in the past it used to be the case that the S-Class influenced the styling of the other lower models in the Mercedes range, but now it seems like things go from the bottom up, you know, it's like the Class A. is influencing the rest of the range, does that matter?

I guess it just depends on whether you're a top person or a bottom person. One thing I'm definitely not so sure about is this aspect, the shape of the grill, it's pretty much the same shape. like audi grill, i don't know why they did that. Still, overall, I like the look of this car, but what do you think? In fact, I'll tell you what we'll see in this center of classic Mercedes. Let me know which one. Do you think it's the most attractive S-Class of all time? Is it the first generation model? The second generation car.

The third generation. The fourth generation. The fifth generation. The sixth generation or this new seventh generation. Let me know in the comments below if the exterior of this one. The car is controversial, so the interior definitely is because it is very different to the current S-Class, which is more noticeable because of these screens, so Mercedes has gotten rid of a lot of buttons because now you control most things through of the central information and entertainment system. For all the details of what you can do later in the video, I just want to talk about the design for now.

I love how it's integrated into the center console. It looks absolutely stunning. Although I'm not so sure about this screen here. It seems a bit placed on top of the steering column. I liked the old car with the banking screens. I'm sure I'll get used to this because the screens themselves, the definition is incredible, as is the actual quality here, this wood trim. with the pinstripes it mimics that on luxury yachts and the way everything wraps around you is beautiful too, this car is fully loaded so we have the softest leather, the

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materials and it really feels special here, everything is feels so luxurious. the switches are all metal, I like what they have done with the light switch, the way it is up here is very nice, the steering wheel also has wood on the outside, leather on the inside and of course the column is electrically operated.

It feels so expensive, I really like the design. One thing to note that the events are now square, whereas in the old car they were round. It's as if the square is the new round. There we go, it's in Mercedes' world anyway, now let's talk about it. -car storage, so you have some space under here. Oh, actually, that release button feels much better than on the old car. It's really cheap and unpleasant in the previous S class. It has a beautiful metallic finish anyway. What I'm saying is, look. Under here you have space for your mobile phone, it has a wireless charging pad there, if you don't have the facility on your phone, there are two USB inputs and it's lined with really lovely soft felt if you want to pet it.

It's like a small mammal underneath, here are the cup holders, they can hold larger bottles. Look, yeah, it's not that pretty and there are two more USB inputs there. It's very modern. Everything is USB here. Then there's more storage here and other wireless charging. also the pad, that's good. The door compartments seem smaller than before, but they actually contain these balls, so I can't complain about them. There's more storage space over here. Hey, look, that's where you're going to leave your wallet and forget about it, and then. The glove box is a reasonable size and also has the Mercedes scent that is pumped through the ventilation system to keep the smell sweet.

However, there is one thing that is not so sweet and that is this aspect, the stem of the equipment. The dial feels cheap, it's not appropriate for a card that starts at £80,000 and this one with all the options is going to cost over a hundred grand, so I guess I can fluff my pillow and just relax and try to forget about it and there are some other features that make up for all that kind of stuff, like looking at the details in this section here, it's lovely with the ambient lighting. I like the fact that not only does it have one sun visor, it has two so you can fully protect yourself if the sun gets in your eyes, there is leather for the handles here and the roof lighting on this car has a really nice faux suede effect , I like to just sit.

I don't even need to be driving here, I just came here to relax and enjoy the proper S-class experience. You need to be in the back seat. Now the car is a little roomier in the back than the previous generation version and I could do the old knee and headroom test but it doesn't make sense because I have so much room you can get the car with a three seats in the back or several of the configurations, this one has two-seater first class seats, so the top of the range, so if I press this button here, it will move the front passenger seat out of the way, it will recline my chair, he'll take out the footrest and then I can really relax into this, it takes time, come on. you can do it, be patient, here we go under the calf support and finally my little heel support, this is great here.

I also like the way they have this wraparound effect with the wood trim and ambient lighting which is really nice. Ambient lighting is not. and you even get ambient lighting on the seat belt buckle mount. It's cool, this guy is fully loaded, so we've got the infotainment screens there, which I can't reach now. Still, I can use this to control all the functions here in the back and for the rest of the car as well, so you have the removable tablet that is standard, obviously those screens are an upgrade, so I can scroll through different menus and things like that using this if I want, there are many other things To play with also if I go in here we have the cup holders and they heat up or cool down depending on what you want to do.

You also get four-zone climate control underneath. Here we have four USB, two HDMI and 12 volts. plug in a wireless charging pad and very expensive feeling tables they are a little wobbly good job this car has very good suspension over here you have a hatch that leads to the trunk so you can carry skis I guess if you wanted or if you want you can upgrade it so it has a refrigerator, so you'll have champagne and stuff there now. If the sun bothers you, it doesn't really matter because you can raise the blinds, oh, go away son, maybe it's the paparazzi that bother you.

It's nice and private back here, there's another thing I want to show you, so it's pretty common on luxury coupes to have little butlers with seat belts, but there's also one in the back, look, so if I open the door and then I close it. he comes there, he shouldn't have to do much manually in an s class, I mean, this is the way to travel, isn't it? I don't want to leave here, unfortunately I can't rest because I need to continue. This

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so let's talk about the trunk, obviously you get an electrically operated tailgate because if you have an S class you can't be expected to lift it yourself.

Now there are some luxury items back here. Look, the rugs are even nice and luxurious. You've got a small shopping bag hooked in there, there's plenty of space for all your luxury shopping and also if you've been to Harrods, which is good, so the capacity is 550 liters, 20 liters more than in the old S-Class. However, keep in mind that if you opt for the reclining seats or the refrigerator, you get less trunk capacity. You also get less boot capacity if you opt for one of the hybrid versions and that brings me to five annoying things about the new Mercedes S-Class. the car has an uncanny ability to teleport you two months into the future and to a miserable parking lot in england a change of clothes has nothing to do with covid the glowing air vents on the top of the dash actually reflect on the windshield and it's particularly bad depending on where the sun is and it is quite distracting this piano black plastic looks great but stains very easily look at that, yes it also scratches, this is a new car no, but it has this nasty little scratch there, the button to change your driving mode is down here, which may not seem like a big deal when you're driving, although you have to look down because it's a touch sensitive button, you have to press it and then if you want to suddenly jump to a different setting and then you have to press the screen.

Why do they just have the rotary dial like they do on Amg cars? It is much better to have it on the steering wheel. Oh and I bet when we get this car in the UK and they move. The steering wheel won't move these buttons either, so we poor English people have to go even further. The rear doors are so big and they open so wide that to open them all the way you really have to like, oh come on and then when you want to close them you're obviously leaning out, the car needs that effect that you get in the Rolls Royce, where you press the button and the door shutter opens for you, of course, you can ask your driver to do it.

I guess if you are a chauffeur, you may not be taking into account the fact that your rear passenger can actually monitor your acceleration and braking movements. Look at that, oh look, so you could be in a situation where your VIP tells you to listen, Mr. Driver. if I see more than 20 on either one you are fired for a fancy expensive car, the key is a bit cheap so it reminds me of one of those wi-fi dongles, luckily this car has a lot of cool. Features to help make up for all of this here are five: You get this car with rear wheel steering which is not uncommon, you can have it on other cars, however on other cars they move the rear wheels about three degrees, in this class It can move up to 10 degrees (see this), so when you are moving slowly it will move the rear wheel in the opposite direction to the front and reduce the turning circle by two metres, meaning this huge barge is as maneuverable as a small one. hatchback look at this, I'm going around in circles in a pretty small space considering how big this car is, obviously when you go faster the rear wheels move in the same direction as the front wheels to help your high speed and stability.

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surround view camera I have seen in any car. The detail is incredible. Check out this look around the car. It's this car in the right color, but look at this. If I turn the steering wheel, you will see the wheels. turns on the picture if i put the indicator on it continues on the picture this is absolutely brilliant and makes it very easy to park in tight spaces and maneuver through those horrible width restrictions. You can get digital headlights for this car and they contain 1.3 million small mirrors that are capable of directing thebeam of light precisely where the car wants it to go, so it can do the usual thing of blocking part of the beam so as not to dazzle oncoming drivers, but it can also highlight pedestrians. on the side of the road and that's not all, it can even project images on the road to give you guidance as a driver;

It's still not allowed to do it because of the laws, but it's technically possible, you know, like most cars with blind spot monitoring you'll get like a little flashing light here in the rear view mirror when a car is in your blind spot in this s class all this LED strip of ambient lighting flashes to really catch your attention this car is full of electric motors So, 20 different motors are used in the ventilation system to control all the flaps, then there are 19 motors in the seats, you have eight for adjustment, you have an extra one for your lumbar support, then there are five for the ventilation system inside the seat and by the way, the machine that drills the holes in the seat has 16,000 needles, then there are four other motors for the massage function and there are 10 different massage programs to choose from, but that's not all, there are even vibration pads built into the seat connected to the stereo that actually amplify the base so you can feel it on your back.

Now let's talk about the S-class infotainment system because it really is the highlight, so this main screen uses OLED. technology and it's very sharp, very bright, super responsive and runs the usual mbux operating system so it's the latest system from Mercedes which is the best in the business if you ask me now it has voice commands and sometimes , it sounds like another Mercedes, it's generally pretty good, so understand things like Hi Mercedes, how can I help you? My butt is cold. The phone is not available. Now you can connect your phone. Well, it's not perfect. It's like with many systems.

Sometimes it does not show the image of the systems. It's 1.37 in Swedish. Chrono on the Stockholm Stock Exchange rose around 3.79 from the previous close. Well, that's all very interesting, Mercedes, but it has nothing to do with what I asked you to do. It can do things like program your satnav, it can set the temperature, but no. It doesn't work perfectly, as you just found out for yourself, you often don't bother with these voice command systems, they annoy me, it has a sense of humor, though let me try one last thing. Hello Mercedes, how can I help?

Tell me a joke why. The tomato blushed because he saw the salad dressing. Let's move on to voice commands, so I wouldn't bother with that. I'll just use the touchscreen, it's pretty intuitive and although the climate control buttons are run through the touchscreen, it's okay because the screen has haptic feedback so it will vibrate like your mobile phone when you touch it, let's move on the digital driver's display because it's special, so before you can control it using the buttons on the steering wheel, tap and press so I don't like the fact that they tap and press because that gets a little confusing because you don't know which one to do.

You tap, swipe or press anyway, you can change the view and the graphics are good once again. very sharp, very clear, lots of information there, it has a 3D effect. I can make all the images there 3D, so the cameras behind the screen are actually monitoring my eyes and they are making two images, so when you look at them with two eyes, then you get this 3D effect. It doesn't really work on cameras but I can give you an effect from behind so if I move monitor where my eyes are and it moves and adjust the image so it looks 3D what you will capture on the camera is that the image It's starting to shake, that's the best way I can illustrate it, you have to be sitting here with two eyes looking at it and it's crazy, in fact, it's crazy, I find it a little unpleasant, so I'm going to drive it normal, shiny, shiny, shiny, shiny and I think I say the word shiny a lot in this video because this car is an absolute technology.

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Now let's talk. about the engine options in the s class, here in the uk you get the s-500 which is what this car is and it has a three liter straight six turbo petrol with 435 horsepower, then there is a s350d with a 2.9 liter turbodiesel inline six with 286 horsepower, then the s400d which has a 2.9 liter turbodiesel inline six with 330 horsepower, then there is the 580e which has a turbo three-liter inline six-cylinder gasoline engine plus a 510-horsepower electric motor and thanks to its 28 kilowatt-hour battery it has an electric-only range of 64 miles and eventually there will be an S63 model with a twin-turbo V8 with more 600 horsepower.

All s cutters now have a nine-speed automatic gearbox and air suspension as standard. Let's see what this s class is like. Driving it, I picked it up from Mercedes-Benz UK and maneuvering around the car park is very easy, in fact there is a mini roundabout here. I'm going to circumnavigate it a couple of times to show the rear wheel steering. This, can I move? It's pretty tight here. Can I move with that curb? I'm going to press this button to take a look around the car, make sure I'm not braking the wheels, oh, that 360 degree view is absolutely.

Great, uh, while I'm here there's a parking space. Can I place an activated parking setting in this parking space so that automatic parking will continue? Now the car is actually detecting around itself. Can you see that blue line around it? I'm going to try to park it, I don't think I can fit in there, oh yeah, here we go, we press this button down here and essentially I don't have to do anything, the car is going to do absolutely everything, everything, the steering brake and the accelerator, and this. They're going to put me in this parking space look the feet don't do anything they're going to cover the wheels I don't trust they're going to cover the wheels I'm so nervous but no it's so good you don't have to do anything that's so close I mean, I have it so close to see that on the camera, wow, to get out of the parking space without the parking touch, here yes, now, what should you do, start parking with the parking button below the screen, here we go, go Go. get ready to break he says now what he's going to do is use my rear wheel steering and pull the car out slightly so both wheels go like this when I move to the side to help me get out.

This is brilliant, I'm not doing anything. I'm literally doing nothing. Oh, he wants to drive. Now come on, good technology. Now my satnav is telling me to go right and I can see the chevrons on the head-up display that match the chevrons down here telling me to go right. on the augmented reality satnav screen that uses the camera up front, it shows real-time images of the road and overlays them on the map, so the combination of the two is absolutely brilliant, the first thing I notice when you're driving. That's how comfortable the car is, the air suspension is excellent, so you have cameras there and what they do is monitor the road and they can detect lumps and bumps that are loosening the suspension when you're about to get there. drive over any kind of imperfection and that means you don't really feel much this engine is quiet and very smooth very quiet so my place is called Milton Keynes and it's full of roundabouts and roundabouts can be fun so let's just check the driving. and the acceleration of about oh, it's going well, actually this, oh, it's a very smooth, very, very smooth and powerful engine.

The steering is precise but not heavy, it's nice and light and that really helps when you're traveling in that direction. something just floats down the road it's like you're flying over the surface of the road on a cushion of air it's really very very nice actually I'm looking for potholes and there is a pothole, no it doesn't seem to bother it Even the really sharp bumps, like Expansion joints can really send a jolt through air suspension systems, but this one handles them quite well. I just want to try something, look at that, look at that, you see now what I did was something very stupid, but?

Also very brave and wanted to do the illustration for you. I didn't hit the brake as I approached the back of that car. I thought I would see if the car would stop automatically and it did. It beeped, I tightened my seat belt and it automatically breaks the car to stop me from crashing into the back there are so many sensors and everything just checking this car it's a crazy look you can see in this picture here it's just scanning around the side of the car at all times now On a freeway, I'm going to put the automated cruise control on.

It has lane keep assist, so it will steer to keep me in the lane, and obviously you can set the radar guidance to keep you a safe distance from the car. forward and I can override it at any time using the accelerator or the brake right now because we are going around a roundabout, check the handling, the body is a little lean, but then it is a luxury barge, but it grips well and the steering is Okay, turn the cruise control back on and this is really cool because I can use it on my own on normal roads and on the highway, so it will keep me a safe distance from the car in front.

It's like an extra pair of eyes. I'll drive to stay in the lane, fine using cruise control like this to do all the work for you. I'm basically driving down the streets using cruise control and the car is doing everything for me, it's braking, it's accelerating, it's helping with the steering. The thing about this cruise control system is that when you're on the highway you can go completely autonomously, it can turn to go into different lanes, leave at intersections all that kind of stuff and you can basically sit there and do nothing. without touching the Unfortunately, although the car can do that, the law does not allow the car to do that, but eventually the laws will change and the car will be ready to go.

You can also do this where you can park yourself and I can't. It doesn't mean they can park themselves like I showed you before. You can get out of the car, press a button on the app on your phone, and the car will park itself, turn off, and look for a parking spot in a garage. It's amazing once again. I can't do it yet for legal reasons, but technically you can. He is capable of doing it. This is a deeply impressive car that can do everything it really can and when it comes to driving long distances in comfort and with technology to help keep you safe and make your journey as easy as possible.

There is no other car that can beat it. It really is a leader in its class. So what is my final verdict on the new Mercedes S-Class? Should you avoid it? If you consider it. shortlist it or you should go ahead and buy it right. I think you should go ahead and buy the s class if you are looking for a luxury limo because it is absolutely amazing. If you enjoyed the video, please like it too. comment below any type of other video that you would like us to do if you want to see more videos click on the windows there and if you click on the box you can download the car wow app it's completely free you can use it to like it.

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