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Mr Franklin put me in touch with the ghost of his great great great great grandfather Benjamin Franklin and he gave me sound investment advice. His number is 4 because he was the fourth person in the world to have a telephone. Do not buy Tesla stock. Buy Belgian chocolates.

Yeah thanks for that. When it got to that part I had to second guess myself if I already watched this video today and forgot.

When I saw it in the Lucid vid I KNEW they’d do that bit and I was not disappointed.

Just thought the same thing😂

The Throttle House Cinematic Universe is coming along nicely

I find it telling that they gushed about the Lucid while bashing the EQS after obviously driving each on the same day. Most other EQS reviews have been at least modestly positive, some quite so. The Lucid must have made quite an impression.

@@Miata822 Meh, they like the drama... They like these outrageous claims. They said a Genesis G80 drives better than an M5 competition... If an EQS drives like shit because of its weight, the Lucid drives equally as bad... And it lacks all the other amenities and features that the Merc has.

But it's not a benz

Definitely

Or a Hyundai

@@vargasaidan7366 nope quality in those is better ... ( my 2k mile $74k AMG Rattles more then any civic I ever owned 😅 )

I could not agree more, just give us an electric S Class, why would anyone spend 120k++ for a Honda Civic looking car

why would anyone spend 120k for a Honda looking car

I legit saw one at an intersection while it was dark and went “that civic has some stupid huge wheels” And then I saw the Mercedes badge and was a little confused. It looks almost exactly like an 8th gen civic sedan at a glance. I don’t really consider that too much of a downside personally, cause the styling is great in spite of the commuterish silhouette (and I don’t really care about “road presence” or whatever), but it is pretty funny.

what lol

@@isla2202 lol

@@isla2202 fisher?

and we have no friends, right? :D

@@exnihilonihilfit6316 i dont

I literally feel sorry for Harrison (and by extension, you). At 6 ft I’m miserable flying coach and in some back seats. I can’t imagine how bad it must be for you guys. My sympathies.

15:50 has your answer……18:10 too

Great idea

I too am only 6', but I would greatly appreciate this type of quick segment in reviews!

This is like… the one thing us shorter guys have, lol. At 5’7 I’m happy I ended up a car guy at least. Watching my 6’2 friend try to squeeze into a lowered C7 is schadenfreude of the highest order. Lol

And having those other cars handy for cameos, right? Impressive.

Word to Moms yo

@@lemongavine Those parts are scripted. The cars are not theirs and usually require prior notice to get shots of. Thankfully, they know Jason Cammisa, who is better than just about anyone as far as a networking contact for simple car reference shots can be.

You must have an extremely small brain if you think it's so difficult to have hired goons basically writing the script, directing and producing the shots and narrative/video structure, and these two talking their opinions about the car they reviewed

True it doesn't but then again I feel that proper S class has lost some of its presence with this current gen.

I would rather get the EQS because you could get somewhat same features as a C-class.

Honestly it looks like the 8th gen Civic

Neither did the first S class. Give it time

Waste of money...it looks like a civic

You might like Carfection aswell then ;)

You forget Jason Camusa. The holy trinity.

If you know you know😌

Boy was it ever HAHAHA

They were referring to ‘supercar blondie’, weren’t they ?

@@thetechnobasefan1161 yes hehehe

I thought it was a Lexus from the thumbnail. Even the merc star and fake grille on the front looks like a sticker.

Even the worst looking Mercedes still looks better than any Tesla

You're blind. It has the best cd range chassis cabin luxury buold quality materials etc of any ev Styling is SUBJECTIVE

@@nuky_999 model S looks miles better than most mercedes sedans?

@@KG-kp3le Model S literally looks almost the same as it did in 2013... If you knew nothing about cars and saw a Tesla you wouldn't think the car is worth 150k but if you saw any of the Mercedes cars that are worth as much you would think they are expensive, especially the non electric ones like GT 63, CLS etc

i think they were making a dig at supercarblondie

And that's the most iconic S-Class for me (childhood memories) :)

Except if you disagree. I'm note appalled by those horrific North American orange strips stupidly stuck on cars out there.

If you want low drag, a big cabin and a structurally rigid chassis, you have to build it this way. You can also have low drag and better looks, like the lucid, but then you get a shit chassis, like the lucid. Lucid - Designed for Marketing to Braindead Morons.

It has aged well unlike your eyes if they even existed to begin with of course

@@eventusvantos1905 oh good one, I’m jotting that down in my journal.

So what do we actually know about the Lucid. Just some figures. I would choose the EQS over the Lucid any day.

@@hermanstokbrood What are you talking about? Throttle House did a full drive review on the Lucid in December and so did Doug Demuro, as well as a bunch of other magazines. We know just as much about the Lucid as the EQS, Rivian, etc.

No its not

@@codexnecro666 So how many are sold? Man wake up. Reviewers are payed.

@@hermanstokbrood more than the EQS. Not all yet delivered though. Figures will be out in a couple of weeks. But that's not what you talked about. What's your problem with Lucid? These cars just as new as each other

But the interior is so plasticy..

you should only lease these, 36 months max.

I would think that is a temporary problem, as an EV uses only 1/5 the parts of a conventional car, once the manufacturing capacity has increased, they should be able to make them cheaper than ICE cars.

@@sv650nyc7 I agree with you, but it doesn't change the fact that if you are comparing this to an ICE car today that you can get more stuff for your $ with an ICE car than an EV. A consumer would need to value the EV technology over the luxury to buy it.

Doug is just a bumbling nerd that got very lucky with his timing. He did spreadsheet work for Porsche, made a few moderately funny videos, and eventually got so full of himself that he stopped actually trying to do funny/fun videos and sticks to doing "quirky" reviews after doing practically no prep-research whatsoever. When you compare the quality of the content and the effort put in by Throttle House to his videos it becomes clear very quickly that Doug has no idea what he's doing and has let his coincidental/lucky success get to his head. It's fun seeing him get genuinely nerdy and excited sometimes, but he simply doesn't deserve the level of success that he has enjoyed IMO. The amount of effort Doug puts in per video and quality of the resulting content is just miles behind what almost all of the other big car review channels put out. He's just driving to meet up with owners and then putting his phone on a tripod to record his first nerdy impressions of whatever he's reviewing. It's cool to see someone being genuine and all, but far from unique and a bit of a joke compared to professional filming, editing, script-writing, creating enjoyable improv banter, and coming up with original jokes/skits that are genuinely funny. Sorry I went on a rant, I actually watch most of Doug's vids as well, but ever since discovering and binging on Throttle House's content a couple years ago, I've begun to get frustrated with how little Doug seems to try and improve by comparison. He still doesn't know the square root of jack shit about sound systems and still usually completely ignores them. And recently he's been fumbling his sentences up really often, especially for someone whose whole gig is basically being a pedantic nerd. It's like he doesn't even care enough to just try the sentence over again so that it makes a more sense or to avoid sounding repetitive/unprepared/unsure, which is ridiculous because it's not like he has a script to follow, or a scene to reset.

This car is amazing. You guys are out of your mind.

Looks like a civic tbh

It has to be intentional. They want the S class to be better to make sure traditional S class buyers keep buying them and make Mercedes better margins. This hopefully attracts new buyers away from other EVs while not eating into S Class sales.

@@twiincentral8780 It's far cheaper than the S class. It has about the same starting price of the S class, which is unheard of for an EV powertrain, which often costs as much as $10k more. Throw in $7500 in federal tax credits plus whatever credit the state is offering. Add in $30k in fuel savings over 15 years, and savings on maintenance. (including time savings) In states with HOV lanes, this may get access to that. (A bit unfair IMO) You save time by not going to the gas station once every week or two, its turning radius is amazing, the available HEPA filter is a big deal in the city and states like CA. Throttle House got some of their points wrong. They didn't mention if the car had the double paned windows option when mentioning the road noise. They claimed that you needed the top trim to get heated rear seats, but that option is actually available on all trims. The biggest issues with this car are the weight, the rear seat length and roof height (assuming tall people will be using the rear seats), brake feel, and ability to canyon carve that all buyers won't be doing anyways. It's the only true BEV luxury car on the market, unless you count the Lucid Air that currently costs significantly more.

@@updlate4756 I like everything you said except for one thing. A Mercedes lasting 15 years 😂 def not common

@@updlate4756 I would still rather have an S-Class, because it's a nicer car overall. I agree with Twiin Central, this is made to pull EV buyers from other automakers, not to shift S-Class buyers within the brand. That not only covers their EV quotas, that also keeps their cash cows funding everything.

I’ve only seen one on the road so far it was 580 in that brown color they offer now, it looked pretty massive to me

I feel the same way about the Tesla Cybertruck. Can’t wait to see one in person.

I love that the cheaper long range version (450) actually has the highest range of all EVs currently on sale. Not to mention you can get the EQS with LiDAR and level 3 self-driving, i.e. it drives autonomously on highways and you are legally permitted to do something else completely, like watching a move or reading a newspaper. Either thede guys here are dumb or smart and specifically took the short range version without level 3 driving to make Mercedes look bad… hmm…

it looks bad when compared to eqxx which looks stunning and is more efficient

@@josephrezin5395 EQX is a concept btw and has a cabin similar to porsche 911…

One car has a safe/rigid chassis with a big cabin and hatch design, one looks good with a bad chassis and no hatch due to lack of chassis stability. IQ question: Which is which? ;)

@@jurycould4275 one sounds like the model s plaid, the other sounds like an Audi etron gt Am I right??

That made me kek, thx. But yeah nah, ofc its EQS and Lucid… : )

It is crazy how much better the Lucid is in almost every way and it's their first car. Merc does have some real benefits (dealer network, parts availability, resale if Lucid goes under) but Merc should be able to put out a better EV than this.

Mercedes isnt oblivious. They're purposely trying to push conventional cars as long as they can while also technically jumping into the inevitable electric powered future. They also know electric car buyers don't necessarily want something that looks too conventional, which this very much doesn't. This is them doing their toes in the water with a decent first attempt. This is the electric luxury sedan for those willing to go electric but not quite willing to go for a vehicle from a start-up automaker. But please, please, don't let any of this distract you from the fact that the Cincinnati Bengals still don't have an indoor practice facility!

You're blind af Eqs has way better range way better materials way more luxurious cabin way better chasis I could go on on. If the eqs is crap then the Lucid is worse than crap

@@The_Stanman other way around

@@eventusvantos1905 The Benz is hound dog UGLY

The thing is when Nyland is driving that car on the highway you can hear the road noise when he saying how quiet the car is. It's not quiet enough for it not to make a bunch of racket in the middle of his video. Also he criticizes the headlights on that vehicle. I don't think Throttle House gave this review short shrift at all. When they have to fly out to a city for a hosted demo event the automobile manufacturer limits their time which did not happen in the case of Mr. Nyland. I don't think he did a more thorough review at all and perhaps wasn't quite as honest with his criticism.

He's my go to guy for ev car reviews.

I've heard that the styling is controversial, while some people like it, some others think it looks like a Honda Civic (9th gen).

@@damilolaakanni absolutely. Very controversial. Doesn't do justice to the S badge. It is supposed to be special.

TH are extremely biased lol It does justice to s class badge best interior by far of any ev

@@eventusvantos1905 The Taycan and the Audi are there with it too.

I owned more than 1 late 90s ford escorts when I was young (Thanks, Dad!), and would have been thrilled if they looked anything like this car.

bro it looks like a 200s civic had a baby with a 2000s accord and then got adopted by mercedes after a bitter divorce

How does it look like a Ford escort?? You're down right blind

@@nothin2chere626 Yeah that too... Went out with this girl who had a 97 escort... You just dont forget an a55 like that lol

The Lucid Air has more range and exactly the same drag coeffcient as the eqs and is way more gorgeous than the eqs

This is a thing i dont understand. The EQS has a range rating of 483mi with WLTP. No Tesla comes even close to this in real world driving conditions. Only in the US EPA rating mercedes chose to under report the range by a lot.

Tesla never reach their EPA range. That should ring a bell......

Wrong yet eqs has a way higher range than the Plaid

That 0.08 difference is the equivalent to the difference between the drag coefficient of a fighter jet (0.021) and a Boeing 747 (0.031). So what Mercedes has done to achieve that number is incredible. Factor in that the luxury inside and things like rear steering add on so much weight compared to the spartan interior of the Tesla and it all makes sense why they placed so much effort to achieve the range they did.

I would like to know more about how it works

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It looks like a midclass French car to me.

How does it feel cheap?

@@eventusvantos1905 cuz it looks like a civic

@@eventusvantos1905 That's not something you can explain... it's just a feeling... Can you explain why you like chocolate? Why you don't like That's nonsense.

It looks less like an S and more like a C.

No issue .so is me. But this the best ev full size luxury car ever.i hate it when people compare it to a shit tesla.tesla is a muscle car in 4 door form

You misspelled "ugly"

Most definitely it’s no way I would pick that electric junk over the opulence and just pure stature of the s550

@@TamiyaPhilippW 😂 😂 😂 😂

But if you had to pick an EV? The EQS has highest range of all EVs currently on sale (the 450 model, not the 580 shown here). Also you can get LiDAR and level 3 autonomous driving for the EQS (not shown here either). Wonder what these guys problem is, are they dumb or why did they choose to review the short range level 2 version…? Hmm.. Who cares… ^^

The EQE is coming...that would be closer to the E class than this price wise and size wise.