Some Interior Photos...

Amaaaazing really...

 

 

Does this thread sound like a porno to anyone else

 

That steering wheel looks ghey. Everything else is niiiiice though.

 

The buttons are too japanese car looking... like on Lexus or Acura... that silverish, flast plastic look... I didn't like it on the 300ZX back in the 80's, and I don't like it now.

I used to admire German design and ergonomics, but now they've turned into Acura/Lincoln nockoffs... sad day.

The gizmo factor is cool, but it could have easily been done with more taste.

 

I just can't stop staring at the lady's fingers up top.

You think the most hi-tech car company on the planet could get a better hand model.....

Imagine that ugly thing wrapped around your......Benz.

 

Actually, all those buttons are made out of metal.

 

Cool! so one more thing to burn my fingers during August in Arizona. Just what I needed: a nice burnt red mesh grid pattern on my finger tips!

And wood steering wheels... ha! maybe when someone comes out with a liquid cooled one...

 

C'mon...I live in Nevada and have a E Class Sport with Blue Tint and I never have a problem with chrome being too hot or my wood steering wheel to hot to handle. With the S you get infrared lamintated glass and you don't worry about the Arizona sun. I lived in Phoenix before coming to LV and I never had a problem with tinted windows on my wagon.

Why all the bashing...I like the outside and the inside of the new S! Wonder where all these "expert car designers" bashing the car got their degrees in car design?

 

from automobile

 

So you need a degree in car design to express an opinion about esthetics?

The consumer ("non-expert car designers") makes the final buying decisions.

 

You are right. Opinions are personal and original thoughts and people are entitled. Just get tired of hearing how it could have been done better or why did they do that.

 

Does it still have the 'floating look' of the needles on the Odometer? I can't tell..

 

I think the floating thing is better, looks like text from navi comes in front of the floating thing, when there no text then the needle gets a bigger area, very interesting.

 

it does look like it's a completely digital speedo meant to appear to be analog. Boo! This will suck in direct sun light.



It's very obvious in this picture that the tach is an actual dial, but you can see the edge of the LCD for the speedometer and nav.

 

wooow. Interior details are fabulous!!
i think i'm gonna like this Benz

 

Strange, misshapen and with a BMW copy cat poorly integrated "hood". It could have been so much more........

 

Some More..

 

Not too bad, looks better then the first pictures of the interior

 

Actually, when I drove one of the mules of this car, the there was no degredation in direct sunlight. It was just fine. The only thing you could detect was that there were real gages next to the screen, that's it.

By the way, do you guys know that this car has a pc card slot under the CD chager? How cool is that?!!

 

I didn't like the first interior pictures of the new S, but its starting to look better and better. I think when you see the car in person it will be amazing. I don't know why everyone is complaining about the i-drive, its really not that hard to use and it eliminated the need for 100's of buttons.
The engineers over at Mercedes aren't stupid, usually it takes some time to get used to new designs and eventually they will make our current S-Class look old and outdated.

 

i was just lookin arnd when i saw this pic:
http://www.maybach.ru/w221/index_en.php?ind=15

and this one:
http://www.maybach.ru/w221/index_en.php?ind=16

clearly then the speedo, along with the gear indicator is gonna b an LCD screen. the fuel, temp, and rev are real instruments.

this is quite interesting: hv never seen such an arrangement before! i wonder if you can switch between the two screens i.e. have the speedo on the COMAND screen and the COMAND right in front of you, if you wish.

look at the third button on the left of the COMAND screen, just above the brightness control: it looks like something to switch screens, doesn't it?

 

the interior does look closer to a BMW than I've seen before, but i think it may feel more like a Benz when we get to see them on the showroom floor. i've been using iDrive in my wife's 745i and i have to say - folks that find it hard to deal with are likely technology shy - it isn't hard to master - but it does have too many steps to get to different operations - kinda like some Microsoft products.

 

They eliminated what?

Please man, check the interior of my X5 and tell me that has too many buttons. What more do you need in that car that you need to warrent such a piece of **** like iDrive, and worse, this Mercedes thing... has TOO MANY ****ING BUTTONS.

I don't care if I can blow up the car in front of me, I don't need that many god damned buttons. They need to learn how to design interiors properly and integrate functions correctly in a user friendly manner.

 

If James Bond didn't need iDrive in his DB5 when that thing included buttons for ejector seats, smoke screen, oil slick, and missles, I surely don't need iDrive in my car.