Cirrusly

Just watched the live Mercedes presentation from the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas and hour or so ago where they debuted their new MBUX (Mercedes Benz User eXperience) system that's going to take the place of their existing COMAND system. Looks really slick with touchscreen, no control wheel, very advanced voice recognition, internet connectivity and over-the-air updates. I guess there's no way of knowing if it's going to be available for the 2016 E series until they release the configuator.

24Hours

2019?

Cirrusly

That's the question at this time. The only vehicles that they committed to are their new compact cars coming out later this year. I'd like to order a 2019, but this is such a major step up I may wait to 2020 if it's not available until then.

E63Wsantini

Half the features won't be allow in the US!

Cirrusly

Such as? I didn't see anything in the presentation of the interface that I thought wouldn't be allowed here. Very interested in the reasoning behind your conclusion. Thanks.

Ralcbah

Looks pretty cool. If in fact they remove the touchpad/wheel, the voice command setup will have to be incredible, as the touchscreens aren't in a great place to interact with while driving. Will be fun to see what does make it into the production cars.

Cirrusly

It looks like they plan on leaving the touchpad and just removing the wheel. The way that I understood the announcement all of the MBUX features such as the touchpad without the wheel, very advanced voice control, 3D style menus and touch screens are going to be put into production as early as this summer at least on their new A series economy car.

Ralcbah

Ah. Gotcha. Looking forward to checking it out.