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Perth Now
02-07-2025
- Automotive
- Perth Now
Mercedes-Benz EQS was ahead of its time, says design chief
Gorden Wagener, chief designer at Mercedes-Benz, has gone in to bat for the EQS, saying its tepid sales may be due to marketing, positioning and timing. Regarding its controversial streamlined shape, Mr Wagener told Autocar, 'I think the EQS is probably 10 years too early.' The design chief also believes the EQS shouldn't have been pitched as the electric equivalent of the S-Class. He defended the EQS as a 'very progressive car', but noted 'it was not originally designed as a chauffeur limousine' which typically have a 'long hood' to denote its status. 'Maybe we should have marketed it differently, more like a futuristic CLS, S-Class coupe or something like that,' Mr Wagener mused. Hundreds of new car deals are available through CarExpert right now. Get the experts on your side and score a great deal. Browse now. Supplied Credit: CarExpert Despite this, the car's 2024 facelift made the design a little bit more traditional by junking the faux grille featuring a large three-pointed star in the middle. It was replaced by a new faux grille with multiple horizontal slats bisected by a vertical bar, mimicking the look of a traditional S-Class. There's even a classic three-pointed star mounted as a hood ornament. The EQS won't head into a second generation, instead it will be replaced with an S-Class EV. Although it might feature a different platform to the petrol- and diesel-powered S-Class models, it will share styling and will use the well-established nameplate. Supplied Credit: CarExpert Supplied Credit: CarExpert Supplied Credit: CarExpert Supplied Credit: CarExpert The controversial styling of the EQE, EQE SUV, EQS, and EQS SUV will be retired when those models reach the end of their lifecycle. Indeed, the whole EQ range will slowly sail off into the sunset. Instead of offering electric vehicles as standalone models, Mercedes-Benz will put EV drivetrains into established model lines. The third-generation CLA, launched earlier this year, features both EV and mild-hybrid drivetrains. Similarly there will also be EV drivetrain options for the next-generation C-Class and GLC. MORE: Everything Mercedes-Benz EQS
7NEWS
02-07-2025
- Automotive
- 7NEWS
Mercedes-Benz EQS was ahead of its time, says design chief
Gorden Wagener, chief designer at Mercedes-Benz, has gone in to bat for the EQS, saying its tepid sales may be due to marketing, positioning and timing. Regarding its controversial streamlined shape, Mr Wagener told Autocar, 'I think the EQS is probably 10 years too early.' The design chief also believes the EQS shouldn't have been pitched as the electric equivalent of the S-Class. He defended the EQS as a 'very progressive car', but noted 'it was not originally designed as a chauffeur limousine' which typically have a 'long hood' to denote its status. 'Maybe we should have marketed it differently, more like a futuristic CLS, S-Class coupe or something like that,' Mr Wagener mused. Hundreds of new car deals are available through CarExpert right now. Get the experts on your side and score a great deal. Browse now. Despite this, the car's 2024 facelift made the design a little bit more traditional by junking the faux grille featuring a large three-pointed star in the middle. It was replaced by a new faux grille with multiple horizontal slats bisected by a vertical bar, mimicking the look of a traditional S-Class. There's even a classic three-pointed star mounted as a hood ornament. The EQS won't head into a second generation, instead it will be replaced with an S-Class EV. Although it might feature a different platform to the petrol- and diesel-powered S-Class models, it will share styling and will use the well-established nameplate. The controversial styling of the EQE, EQE SUV, EQS, and EQS SUV will be retired when those models reach the end of their lifecycle. Indeed, the whole EQ range will slowly sail off into the sunset. Instead of offering electric vehicles as standalone models, Mercedes-Benz will put EV drivetrains into established model lines. The third-generation CLA, launched earlier this year, features both EV and mild-hybrid drivetrains. Similarly there will also be EV drivetrain options for the next-generation C-Class and GLC.
The Advertiser
02-07-2025
- Automotive
- The Advertiser
Mercedes-Benz EQS was ahead of its time, says design chief
Gorden Wagener, chief designer at Mercedes-Benz, has gone in to bat for the EQS, saying its tepid sales may be due to marketing, positioning and timing. Regarding its controversial streamlined shape, Mr Wagener told Autocar, "I think the EQS is probably 10 years too early." The design chief also believes the EQS shouldn't have been pitched as the electric equivalent of the S-Class. He defended the EQS as a "very progressive car", but noted "it was not originally designed as a chauffeur limousine" which typically have a "long hood" to denote its status. "Maybe we should have marketed it differently, more like a futuristic CLS, S-Class coupe or something like that," Mr Wagener mused. Hundreds of new car deals are available through CarExpert right now. Get the experts on your side and score a great deal. Browse now. Despite this, the car's 2024 facelift made the design a little bit more traditional by junking the faux grille featuring a large three-pointed star in the middle. It was replaced by a new faux grille with multiple horizontal slats bisected by a vertical bar, mimicking the look of a traditional S-Class. There's even a classic three-pointed star mounted as a hood ornament. The EQS won't head into a second generation, instead it will be replaced with an S-Class EV. Although it might feature a different platform to the petrol- and diesel-powered S-Class models, it will share styling and will use the well-established nameplate. The controversial styling of the EQE, EQE SUV, EQS, and EQS SUV will be retired when those models reach the end of their lifecycle. Indeed, the whole EQ range will slowly sail off into the sunset. Instead of offering electric vehicles as standalone models, Mercedes-Benz will put EV drivetrains into established model lines. The third-generation CLA, launched earlier this year, features both EV and mild-hybrid drivetrains. Similarly there will also be EV drivetrain options for the next-generation C-Class and Everything Mercedes-Benz EQS Content originally sourced from: Gorden Wagener, chief designer at Mercedes-Benz, has gone in to bat for the EQS, saying its tepid sales may be due to marketing, positioning and timing. Regarding its controversial streamlined shape, Mr Wagener told Autocar, "I think the EQS is probably 10 years too early." The design chief also believes the EQS shouldn't have been pitched as the electric equivalent of the S-Class. He defended the EQS as a "very progressive car", but noted "it was not originally designed as a chauffeur limousine" which typically have a "long hood" to denote its status. "Maybe we should have marketed it differently, more like a futuristic CLS, S-Class coupe or something like that," Mr Wagener mused. Hundreds of new car deals are available through CarExpert right now. Get the experts on your side and score a great deal. Browse now. Despite this, the car's 2024 facelift made the design a little bit more traditional by junking the faux grille featuring a large three-pointed star in the middle. It was replaced by a new faux grille with multiple horizontal slats bisected by a vertical bar, mimicking the look of a traditional S-Class. There's even a classic three-pointed star mounted as a hood ornament. The EQS won't head into a second generation, instead it will be replaced with an S-Class EV. Although it might feature a different platform to the petrol- and diesel-powered S-Class models, it will share styling and will use the well-established nameplate. The controversial styling of the EQE, EQE SUV, EQS, and EQS SUV will be retired when those models reach the end of their lifecycle. Indeed, the whole EQ range will slowly sail off into the sunset. Instead of offering electric vehicles as standalone models, Mercedes-Benz will put EV drivetrains into established model lines. The third-generation CLA, launched earlier this year, features both EV and mild-hybrid drivetrains. Similarly there will also be EV drivetrain options for the next-generation C-Class and Everything Mercedes-Benz EQS Content originally sourced from: Gorden Wagener, chief designer at Mercedes-Benz, has gone in to bat for the EQS, saying its tepid sales may be due to marketing, positioning and timing. Regarding its controversial streamlined shape, Mr Wagener told Autocar, "I think the EQS is probably 10 years too early." The design chief also believes the EQS shouldn't have been pitched as the electric equivalent of the S-Class. He defended the EQS as a "very progressive car", but noted "it was not originally designed as a chauffeur limousine" which typically have a "long hood" to denote its status. "Maybe we should have marketed it differently, more like a futuristic CLS, S-Class coupe or something like that," Mr Wagener mused. Hundreds of new car deals are available through CarExpert right now. Get the experts on your side and score a great deal. Browse now. Despite this, the car's 2024 facelift made the design a little bit more traditional by junking the faux grille featuring a large three-pointed star in the middle. It was replaced by a new faux grille with multiple horizontal slats bisected by a vertical bar, mimicking the look of a traditional S-Class. There's even a classic three-pointed star mounted as a hood ornament. The EQS won't head into a second generation, instead it will be replaced with an S-Class EV. Although it might feature a different platform to the petrol- and diesel-powered S-Class models, it will share styling and will use the well-established nameplate. The controversial styling of the EQE, EQE SUV, EQS, and EQS SUV will be retired when those models reach the end of their lifecycle. Indeed, the whole EQ range will slowly sail off into the sunset. Instead of offering electric vehicles as standalone models, Mercedes-Benz will put EV drivetrains into established model lines. The third-generation CLA, launched earlier this year, features both EV and mild-hybrid drivetrains. Similarly there will also be EV drivetrain options for the next-generation C-Class and Everything Mercedes-Benz EQS Content originally sourced from: Gorden Wagener, chief designer at Mercedes-Benz, has gone in to bat for the EQS, saying its tepid sales may be due to marketing, positioning and timing. Regarding its controversial streamlined shape, Mr Wagener told Autocar, "I think the EQS is probably 10 years too early." The design chief also believes the EQS shouldn't have been pitched as the electric equivalent of the S-Class. He defended the EQS as a "very progressive car", but noted "it was not originally designed as a chauffeur limousine" which typically have a "long hood" to denote its status. "Maybe we should have marketed it differently, more like a futuristic CLS, S-Class coupe or something like that," Mr Wagener mused. Hundreds of new car deals are available through CarExpert right now. Get the experts on your side and score a great deal. Browse now. Despite this, the car's 2024 facelift made the design a little bit more traditional by junking the faux grille featuring a large three-pointed star in the middle. It was replaced by a new faux grille with multiple horizontal slats bisected by a vertical bar, mimicking the look of a traditional S-Class. There's even a classic three-pointed star mounted as a hood ornament. The EQS won't head into a second generation, instead it will be replaced with an S-Class EV. Although it might feature a different platform to the petrol- and diesel-powered S-Class models, it will share styling and will use the well-established nameplate. The controversial styling of the EQE, EQE SUV, EQS, and EQS SUV will be retired when those models reach the end of their lifecycle. Indeed, the whole EQ range will slowly sail off into the sunset. Instead of offering electric vehicles as standalone models, Mercedes-Benz will put EV drivetrains into established model lines. The third-generation CLA, launched earlier this year, features both EV and mild-hybrid drivetrains. Similarly there will also be EV drivetrain options for the next-generation C-Class and Everything Mercedes-Benz EQS Content originally sourced from:
Motor 1
26-06-2025
- Automotive
- Motor 1
Why the AMG G63 Is Still the Best Thing Mercedes Makes
Close your eyes and whisper "Mercedes-Benz." This incantation likely conjures a stately, stretched-out sedan of some distant vintage. It's probably riding on breadloaf sidewalls and either painted jet black or some gleaming metallic beige. It will not, however, look anything like this: The upright matte-bronze She-Shed parked in my driveway. But in 2025, the G63 is the very best Mercedes-Benz has to offer. It feels of considerable substance and style, the type that used to drape the shoulders of any car that wore the three-pointed star. One time, a friend came by, poked her head in the G Wagen, and simply decreed, "It smells like money!" That old-school attention to feeling seems increasingly rare at a time when the German marque stumbles in search of a modern identity. Don't understand what I mean? Take a look at the EQE . I'm not a fan, and neither are the car's owners, apparently, as many have found their way to the secondary market in short order. You should not confuse a Mercedes with a Chevy commuter The cheapest EQEs have just dipped below thirty grand on the used market, have few miles on the clock, are a couple of model years old, and generally rang up near eighty grand when new with a few options. New ones can barely be given away. Meanwhile, pull up a new tab and find your local Mercedes dealer: G-Class trucks—of which I am a fan—sell at a price of 'Please Enquire.' Whatever figure that enquiry produces, you'll pay it. Or more. Granted, most EVs have depreciated quicker than a ripe peach, but EQE values have dropped like a Steinway in freefall. It was perhaps the least-enjoyable thing I've driven in the past few years (the EQE, not the free-falling Steinway), given the disparity between real-world experience and my expectation of the badge. Photo by: Kyle Kinard / Motor1 Mercedes might be forgiven for their early attempts at a mainstream EV, along with the rest of Zee Germans —only BMW nailed that first round with the i4. But that dilution of core brand attributes, which plagued Mercedes EVs, also stretched to flagship performance vehicles like the C63, which has come in for a raft of criticism from the media, including myself, with a similar attitude taken by prospective buyers. Mercedes, to their credit, have admitted 'they lost some customers' with the car and seem to be considering a course correction , though they've remained unrepentant in other interviews, insisting a lack of C63 sales resulted from a lack of customer education ; Not from building a Mercedes nobody but legislators asked for. C63: An embarrassment of technological riches. Undesirable all the same. Photo by: Mercedes-Benz It doesn't bring me any glee to bring these points back up, because I've made them before. Rather than beat a dead horse, I repeat myself because I simply want Mercedes to find its way back. Because every enthusiast loves Mercedes in some way or another, whether it's for their stodgy Seventies sedans that wore like an old fraying cardigan, or for their hyperbolic approach to performance wherein most Mercedes-AMGs bore at least eight cylinders, a pair of turbos, and enough torque to rip a Sequoia from the earth. There's always been something deeply aspirational about a Mercedes-Benz, and yet the number of Mercedes I desire to own dwindles each year. How to solve that? Borrow some lessons from this G-Class and apply them to every last Mercedes. Photo by: Kyle Kinard / Motor1 Photo by: Kyle Kinard / Motor1 Of course, it's the most despicable auto-writer cliche to mention the cha-chunk of a G-Class's door when you slam it shut against the latch, but here it is again. Combine that audible sensation with the mighty heft of the doors themselves, the force required to depress the door-latch button itself, and the slam it takes to fully latch the door shut… Like a Colt 1911, this vehicle demands all your arm strength to actuate its exterior functions, evoking a rugged utilitarianism. These touchpoints perfectly demonstrate an abstract concept: Quality is communicated through what a driver feels, not how a vehicle looks. So, simply make the EQE's doors feel heavier? No, that's not it. Take this less cliched example: the sunroof slider. Compare the G's slider to a downmarket SUV like the 4Runner that sits in my driveway a lot. Photo by: Kyle Kinard / Motor1 Both the G63's slider and the one in my own 4Runner offer identical functionality. You simply grab a little handle at the leading edge of the slider and move it along a set of tracks until the glass roof is revealed. In the 4Runner, it feels unremarkable. In the Mercedes, it feels almost indescribable. There's that heft again, but this time with a smoothness to the action, like you're sliding a heavy piece of fine china over velvet. I think a team of human beings considered how it should feel to close this shade and made decisions working back from that particular aim. There were cost-cutting measures to consider—after all, the money guys have shareholders' pockets to line—but in the end, even the G-Class's least-used feature feels like money. Photo by: Kyle Kinard / Motor1 The G-Class communicates the abstract idea of 'quality' with every touch point, whereas many other Mercedes—lined with capacitive touch buttons and clicky plasticky trim pieces—signal an indifference toward their driver. Cut-rate Mercedes-Benz will demand cheaper materials, in turn creating a challenge for the designers, engineers, and bean counters. But Mercedes always overcame that challenge with its US products; Generally the less-expensive ones never felt anything less than a Mercedes-Benz. Even the beat-up diesel E-Class taxi you hailed in Skopje still rode like a Mercedes. The sedan's synthetic seats held up for a half-million miles with some occasional care and didn't feel cheap so much as intentionally hard-wearing. Budget Mercedes haven't felt that way since at least 2013, when the marque made its biggest play toward the mass market with CLA . Photo by: Kyle Kinard / Motor1 Photo by: Kyle Kinard / Motor1 Alongside BMW's 'The Ultimate Driving Machine,' Mercedes's 'The Best or Nothing' credo sits atop the pile of automotive taglines. It's an idea so concise and so attractive, it still lures me to the brand. This G63 still speaks to that idea in an honest way, even if you're cynical about the Kardashian types who buy the truck and park them in front of boutiques you can't shop in. But the Kardashians do prove something that Merc should remember; Americans buy cars that move them emotionally, not the one that looks the most clever on a piece of drafting paper. It's why we love the G63's bombast, an old-school E-Class's stodgy adherence to ultimate quality, and the SL's drug lord menace. Vehicles like the EQE and C63 felt like equations where you have to work backward to find the value of 'x', instead of structures supported by a core brand identity. Photo by: Kyle Kinard / Motor1 With a deeply unsure legislative climate, I sympathize with product planners at any company. Navigating the changing winds of world governments is difficult when product planning moves at a glacial pace. But if you simply stick to your guns and build a car that feels like The Best or Nothing—at every price point—it doesn't matter which direction the trade winds blow. People will follow in your wake. 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Yahoo
02-05-2025
- Automotive
- Yahoo
Mercedes-Benz announces new car coming to Alabama plant
VANCE, Ala. (WIAT) — Mercedes Benz will make a new car at its plant in Tuscaloosa County, although what this new 'core segment' vehicle will be or what it looks like is anyone's guess. In a statement released Thursday, the car manufacturer announced it would build a new car at its Mercedes-Benz U.S. International plant outside Tuscaloosa. Currently, the plant puts out the GLE and GLS; the EQE and EQS SUVs and the Mercedes-Maybach line of EQS and GLE vehicles. 'Tuscaloosa has been a key hub for Mercedes-Benz vehicles for almost 30 years,' said Ola Källenius, chairman of the board of management of Mercedes-Benz Group AG. 'It's a natural step to bring a further model to Alabama as part of a strategy to deepen our commitment to the United States, a market, which has been our home for more than a century.' Since opening in 1997, over 4.5 million cars have rolled off the line at MBUSI. Last year, the plant put out nearly 260,000 vehicles. 'We are getting even closer to the U.S. customer by localizing a core segment model in Tuscaloosa, strengthening our ties to the North American market where a range of Mercedes-Benz vehicles including the GLE and GLS models have their roots,' MBUSI CEO Jason Hoff said. The announcement comes in the wake of the Trump administration's proposed 25% tariffs on imported cars, as well as a 25% tariff on auto parts that is set to go into effect this weekend. According to a report by CNBC, an estimated 60% of the vehicles produced at Mercedes-Benz's Tuscaloosa County plant are exported. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
