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Hey crew i’ve got the key to this 22 mercedes amg eqs 53 4matic plus a lot of letters and numbers to tell you you’re looking at the range-topping all-electric sedan from mercedes and we are going to take it for a drive but first let’s check out how it looks on the inside and outside on the exterior not a ton to tell
You’re looking at the amg version but you do have the panamericana style right here a lot of black loss treatment for the corner vents which are of course fake you’ve got that digital light and the light bar running across the top of the grill this paint job is called cardinal red it’s got a metallic
Flake on the paint surface getting to the side big upgrade here compared to that 450 i showed you guys with those what were they 19 inch wheels you got black on the inside and then a brushed in michelin pilot sport tires 275 section front and rear the only downside to this cool wheel design is that they kind
Of cover up painted in gold here those will be fun to tap around the windows and then that lower portion there and man the wheels really help the profile this vehicle still think the fun the front is funky even on the amg model but the profile looks so much better with wheels getting to the back my
Favorite view on the eqs i like that light bar running across the till you now have a more pronounced trunk lip spoiler here and you get an amg specific diffuser down low with these six fins in the gloss black treatment now despite these aerodynamic changes which actually introduce drag it still has a drag coefficient
Of 0.23 which is excellent narrowly worse than the 450 at 0.20 let’s check out that interior opening up and looking inside we have the exclusive black nappa leather on this model yes real leather the difference perforations look great the seat designs but the stitching also looks better than the seashell
In the 450 you still have your poofy pillows there’s gray and black in the door panels with carbon fiber trim that’s beautiful burmester speaker covers in metal stepping in we’ll find suede on the pillars and headliner with your two sunroofs and a standard on the amg model from three defined screens that right
One is not on because no one’s sitting in that passenger seat four zone climate control is standard on this model with the rear seat comfort package you get a tablet for these rear passengers and wireless smartphone charging in here now i am sitting behind my own seating position at six feet tall and i’ve
Got plenty of knee room foot pockets are nice and large the batteries are on the floor so it does raise up your knee angle so i don’t have quite the thigh support i would in like an s-class but my head room is good i clear the roof not a lot but i do clear the roof rear doors so you just kind of tap on it
And i’ll close it the rest of the way in the front we find heated ventilated and massaging seats those controls are here on the door that immediate lighting looking strong even in the sunlight one of the biggest changes on the amg model is this thicker perforated at nine and three and flat bottom wheel design with the
Controllers that are reconfigurable on the left hand side and on the right is your drive mode you get a unique skin on the gauge cluster and infotainment for amg beautiful inside is wireless smartphone charging and then down low is tons of storage and including more deep storage in the center console yeah
This is a stunning cabin especially relative to the other evs in the segment i’m ooh and a very futuristic startup noise i know that is specific to amg clicking up on the selector here which i don’t know whether this is actually useful or not but it is cool these different sound modes with up to nine the zaniest turning radius is a
Big sedan and it just just basically pivoted on its rear axle we have the same 108 kilowatt per hour battery pack that you get in the 450 and in the 580 580 but now we’re making 629 horsepower and 700 pound-feet of torque sent to all four wheels it’s an intelligent all-wheel drive system at a moment’s notice
And now i say 629 horsepower but that’s just normally you can in certain times pound-feet of torque which we will know now no doubt do at some point during our drive and have started us out in comfort drive mode now that already changed it up it gave us the car sounded which sounded freaking cool the future’s
Cool guys it’s official the future is cool the way this car hurtles forward that is unique to this vehicle relative i’m turning off recuperation by the way we have three stages of energy recuperation i’ve got none right now so when i take my foot off we’re using all of that aerodynamic sculpting to just coast along but
We are in an uphill keep that in mind for the launch that we just did and for these acceleration blasts if you saw the bmw m240i drive that i did i’m heading into the same road here and so it’s gonna be a good time i’m gonna turn back on the recuperation i’m actually going to go to strong and that’s going to give us the
Assistance of every time i take my foot off the throttle can already tell this is going to be a good time okay so we’ve got the regen takes a second to kick in but we do have carbon ceramic brakes just the instant power out of the corners and the stability you feel from the rear wheel the brake pedal feel is
Still funky to me because it’s doing some of the braking for you where you would naturally find the pedal if you were doing all the braking yourself if you didn’t have braking regeneration so that’s odd that takes a second to get used to but when you get into the pedal the stopping power is there there’s no
Plow the 4matical wheel drive system in fractions of a second and then just out of corners my goodness you do get used to the car pretty quickly and you and the short story is you can push it pretty darn well yeah those brakes when you get on them when you i want more feel from that steering that’s what i want having
Flipped it around and sending it downhill now we’re not gonna do this vehicle any favors yeah again the regen takes a second to kick in so you can’t rely on it to pull you down have to get into the brake pedal you gotta down and uh in performance environments but the side to side movements are impressive for the
Weight on tap here instead of sloshing over giving you body roll which roll is sometimes communication and that’s on this of having effectively no body roll but the limits the performance capability of this eqs amg uphill so i feel it’s only fair that we oh am i laughing harder than i did the first time
Vehicle a chance to do its proper launch and guys that’s an experience that that felt like i was on a roller coaster and it was actually mistaking maybe i’m just making this up it felt like it shook the vehicle a little bit before it actually launched and along with that sound i feel like this may be the first vehicle
That has launch control that actually feels like you’re launching oh my gosh that’s awesome i’m so glad i did it a second time that is freaking awesome and the fact that you could do that so easily just going to sport plus and then just doing the break gas thing as people are a little patient with you when
The light goes green you could do it to just 40 miles per hour or 50 miles per hour mercedes amg says that with the race start you’ll get to 60 in 3.4 seconds i would be shocked if the average of just what we did uphill and downhill was not i like it but it can’t always be fun and games in the amg eqs you need to drive it
Around town sometimes so i’m going to take it out of sport plus which by the way the ride quality adaptive dampers and the air matic i think it’s called airmatic air suspension system i don’t know they’ve got a special marketed name for it but now we’re in comfort drive mode and while we’re in cover drive
Mode it might as well address the range which mercedes amg has not quoted yet for this vehicle uh they also haven’t announced the price officially but the range from the 450 plus was on paper 350 miles real world i got like 400 miles and the i don’t know 580 is like 340 miles i’m guessing it would be real world like
383.90 so this one even if it’s just a range of like 250 then i think real world you’re looking at over 300 miles of range and that would be very respectable with the performance that you have on tap is a really solid sweet spot for most folks in most environments and i think if this is pretty sweet the
Seats are super comfortable you’ve got your heating your ventilation your massage the quietness of the cabin now with the sound turned all the way off this is just serene motoring yeah i’m just going to rudely interrupt myself for a moment because after i concluded the video i forgot that i didn’t do any highway
Traffic so here we are on the highway i’ve turned off breaking regeneration so when i take my foot off the throttle we really do coast like totally coast and i’m also going to engage the active safety features you hit the on off button here and you set your speed and then when i take my hands off the wheel
Even working with curvatures in the road we also have things like lane change assist so you just indicate left and if it’s got a gap it’ll do the lane change for you and just like on the street the cabin is so well insulated at highway speeds it satisfies the luxury requirement just as well as it does the amg specific
Performance element they’re calling this the 53 and with mercedes amg vehicles you look at the history and they’ve got a 53 and then they’ve got a 63. so if you’re unsatisfied with the 751 horsepower available to you at your questionable price 135 i’m estimating then you’ll probably be satisfied with the 900
Plus horsepower that we can almost certainly that out there but let’s back it up what would 135 000 buy you relative to this odd segment of somewhat premium vehicles this is i would say full-on luxury within that segment you’ve got the tesla model s plaid that’s about 131 000 to start yeah it makes gobs more power
I think it’s like a thousand and two horsepower or something like that stupidly quick off the line then you’ve got the lucid air dream and that one is a hundred and seventy thousand dollars to start so that would probably be more lined up with the price that we can expect for the 63 version of the eqs amg
That one makes a thousand one hundred and eleven horsepower it gets to 60 in two and a half seconds air dream would embarrass this car to 60 on the exterior is the interior of the lucid air better than this i haven’t spent much time in that vehicle yet so i can’t really compare but i can say that the interior of
This car is phenomenal the hyper screen is really solid the ride quality is excellent the performance is fun it’s really really fun not just in a straight line also in a corner i’m excited about this car i’m even more excited about getting my face torn off by a 63 version but the 53s are not always wins in amg’s
Lineup it’s an absolute win if you ask me in this lineup well i go i couldn’t even conclude it i was going to conclude it but then i brain farted real hard guys if you’ve enjoyed this pov drive review please like comment and share the video subscribe to the channel hit that bell to you
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The 2022 Mercedes-AMG EQS 53 is a Roller Coaster with Massaging Seats (POV Drive Review) By MilesPerHr