AN HONEST REVIEW OF THE MERCEDES EQC
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
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Dear TGE TV do not be upset with your purchase, remember this is Mercedes first modern day EV and they did a fantastic job. Guess what put it up for sale someone would be happy to buy it 🙂
If you don't know what the regen paddles do, you really shouldn't review the car... And complaining the looks of this and then going for a Tesla? Seriously? ROFL. Teslas are pretty much the ugliest cars around.
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Love the honesty 👍🏾
If you didn’t know what the paddle shifters are for, I’m not surprised you said the ride wasn’t smooth 😂
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Subtle bits of rebranding going on here from Mr TGE, looking forward to seeing the next step in your content lad.
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One of the most useful reviews out there. You can see a lot of reviews that just say then same thing. Great review, great job!
Completely agree TGE, especially seeing the new S class interior design language you’d expect something next level from merc
Perfect for the mums driving 2 miles to drop their children off to school and love their 4x4’s but also the polar bears.
Conveniently ignoring that children in Africa are mining the cobalt!
@@srbs73 well I can’t speak for Mercedes, but Tesla use almost no cobalt in their batteries, and will be making cobalt free batteries. But you own a mobile phone right? Or a laptop? Or ever flown on a plane?
@@WOOTTboy123 I am not driving an EV thinking I’m saving the planet 😉
@@srbs73 This is more likely cheap EV brands. Mercedes-Benz owner Daimler said child labour is “explicitly forbidden” in its supply chain, and it carries out its own inspections and audits on its suppliers. Mercedes-Benz requires producers of its battery cells to show a transparent cobalt supply chain in order to win contracts, it said
I’ve just leased one of these because for the price they are now they are a FANTASTIC car, to put in perspective i picked one up for the same price i paid for an i3 2 years ago. and this superior in every way. For the recent commenters who don’t usually watch TGE this is an overly negative and not one of his best reviews but you can see that’s coming from his high expectations. When this car was released studies showed that people wanted their EVS to look more like normal cars (which is why BMW started designing EVs that looked normal at this exact time). The car is an electric GLC if you want an EV that doesn’t look too wild and is incredibly comfortable and fast this is the one for you… I agree with TGE that although its very fast its not a car you’ll be hooning around in (I tried and it and it doesn’t feel safe using the max power of this car), because comfort is the priority you can’t feel the road and and the weight makes the stopping distance more than you might be used to in a combustion car with the same performance specs, combine all those factors and you could easily end up in a ditch if you’re careful. It should be driven like a range rover, it wafts exceptionally well and power should be reserved for straight lines only!
How much did they pay you to speak out so bad about the EQC? I’m a happy EQC owner and I have to say that your video is so negative biased, one of the worst I found on RUclips. Each of the actually advantage of the EQC you managed to turn it in a negative comment...
You think Mercedes paid me to speak badly about their product? I don’t rate it. Just being honest. Not much honesty on automotive RUclips. Good luck selling it 👍
It seems like they did the bare minimum they could get away with to create an electric car. Possibly for the EU emissions average regulations 😬
Good to see a review thats not a backside kissing job for manufacturers...good content Tom 👌
They should have just put a electric motor in a GLC
I agree cause I find this car hideous
I think it is an amazing vehicle in both looks and execution.
Garbage at most things,got rid of it after 10 months and lost £30K in depreciation
Il be grabbing that car 30k depreciation buyers market lol
Just traded it in,got £33K against a new 992 so I lost £32K in a year,terrible.
Model X Performance still trumps any competition for an electric SUV, despite having the build quality of a mashed potato
And the looks of fire damaged Lego.
Looks utterly SHITE, especially the wheels
I was looking at these last week and i was also underwhelmed. For the money was expecting more.
Excellent video. Enjoying the ev content, I-Pace still remains my favourite EV suv style thing.
Hopefully get in one soon!
He is right it looked cramped inside
The weight of the I Pace is 2.2T !!
It is small inside and have small windows etc for safety in a crash. More space to absorb crash energy and smaller windows is safer because windows doesn't protect as well for intruding objects as the rest of the body. Mercedes-Benz prioritizes safety very much and even has a crash investigation team.
Was surprised you did not know what paddles are for after having for a week.
You never mentioned what sort of kwph your getting. Did you use the app pre heat cabin before you got in it. The infotainment system seems pretty good. Sat nav shows chargers and it gives you an idea on the map of how far you can go by way of a outline on map.
Don't get me wrong I enjoyed your review just think after a week, you would have had more than it's good but I expected more.
Put an AMG logo on it and Shmee will be all over it.
I like the car, its beautiful ❤️
I think one thing worth mentioning is how cheap an eV is to run. My golf costs me £13 or less per 1000 miles OR LESS, or sometimes it's free or even sometimes I'm paid to charge it. But that's secondary. this gives me so much much more to spend on my weekend car. So as a daily driver it makes a big difference to my weekend wallet. (was running an x5 before)
Please rustle endless Jimmy’s on the podcast. I like to hear some aggression we re all thinking but nobody says
Very surprising that the rear window is so small! For a massive 4x4 that’s just disappointing.
It's absoluteluy fine and it has a standard hidden rearview camera, which is brilliant. This guy has no idea about the car, ffs, he doesn't know what the paddle shifts are for.
Everyone was busy slating the likes of Tesla, mocking them, joking about them, no one will ever want that whilst we sell superior cars,
And then Tesla and others started making moves and doing well and even the energy companies started getting on board and the technology was moving at light speed,
The big manufacturers got left behind and now they are scrambling to get in on the hype and it’s too late.
This was there chance to do something great and instead they half arsed it.
This car is an absolute joke. The whole interior sits higher because they shoved a battery in a GLC. Their solution? Put a black band on the windows so the people don't see the trim sticking out. But wait it gets better, you mentionned it feels heavy on the nose. The (GLC) engine compartment has place for a much larger combustion engine, which is an important peace of crash protection. Their solution, put a bullbar around the engine to have some protection and fill the gap. Result, way too heavy on the nose. The most important part is charging at home, it charges at 7,..kW/h, an Audi E-tron does that 50% faster at 11kW. Just to be clear, the E-tron has its own electric platform.
You ain't got a clue what you are talking about.
@@ADY99ish Tell me what’s wrong about these FACTS I mentioned. I work in the automotive industry and have driven both.
EQC weight distribution is front 48%, rear 52%; so heavier in the back of the car (not the front engine bay). And both EQC and Etron will charge overnight at home
I think it's fabulous..
I can understand what your saying about Windows and being able to see out to change lanes etc. I don't like wheels, I think slope in the back isnt flattering. For the price they are trying to compete with tesla model Y. Not even close
The ipace has poor brakes as well. Regen braking but when you hit the brakes for a good reason not great.
Nice try merc, but nah
The Audi is a better car
Interested in an i-pace? Getting relatively 'old' now compared to e tron and this but it was a ground up EV design to give JLR credit where due.
Yep! In one next to test. Very keen to try it
I Pace is the only electric car I would currently buy 👍🏻
Tesla model S or X over a ipace
@@JohnGuidetti751 if you favour horrible build quality and inferior materials and huge panel gaps at a significantly higher price be my guest but you must be mad.
@@bigdavelad can’t go wrong with neither but jag built quality is nothing to shout about F pace interior quality looks like the car is from the early 00’s.
Not a harsh review but possibly relaying the thoughts of many proposed EQC purchasers, hence the reason Mercedes is currently offering 0% PCP deals as they are not selling!
They usually put paddles on the steering wheel to adjust the amount of regenerative braking you want. Bit like do you want it to feel like a one pedal vehicle.
Yes, I use the paddles a lot
I've just leased the 400, Premium Plus one of these, for bobbing round town and they've fixed alot of Tom's Highlighted issues.
However, it's £83k spec wise and to buy. It drives good, it accelerates well. They're bringing a new one out but I would never, ever buy this or any of the 2023 range. £300p/m when a year ago they were £900p/m and I made 2 months down-payment. Delivered with 215 miles.
The exact spec of the car I know have (as a business pool car) sells at 1-2 years old and under 10k miles for around £35k. Insanely expensive and won't get more than 180-200 miles. In 2 years, I'll be seeing what the market does.
What you are looking for is the EQS. Thats gonna be a really revolutionary vehicle. You actually quickly understood what the EQC is. Its just an electric GLC. And I actually like that. Most EVs try to be too modern etc. The EQC is just a regular car thats electric and just their first try and I actually think they just put it out there to have an electric vehicle on the market until the EQS is coming. They probably didnt plan it this way and wanted the EQS to be their first EV, but then realized that people are expecting them to have an EV in their portfolio earlier. They are also already testing the next gen EQC which is gonna replace this one next year.
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Be honest I have C Class Coupe and it's a shocking car what load rubbish build quality is terrible creeks rattles clunking engines sounds terrible and it's coming up to 3 years but I had these issues from new
How can he even consider Tesla if build quality is a thing for him? Or road noise... I didn't even consider one personally.
12:36 they probably just grabbed that wheel from a diesel, hoping no one would realise
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I’m with you on this car mate you expect better from Mercedes the front end looks like a Mercedes the back and looks like a cut and shut with a Kia sportage I certainly wouldn’t put any money into one of these mate 👎👎👎👎🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾
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Thank you for your honesty, that is what you call real world testing, this is one off the list
I chose the EQC over the e-tron personally. Mine will be delivered next week...
How can it be honest, he doesn't know half of the features of the car!
Extremely sad car, why does it have the hump in the rear floor there i no drive train??? DUM drives soft just a remake of the GLC
maybe this is the best EV. Yes its very GLC, but maybe thats not a bad thing. Mercedes interiors are great. and maybe Having a regular mercedes (which is gret) that just happens to run on electricity is what makes this an amazing car. A lot of EV's seem to dress them up to look futuristic, and the interiors are like something out of star trek - a bit gimmicky and a bit of a turn off. I think we'll look back on the first iterations of EV's in 10-20 years, and cringe at them for thinking customers wanted these 'jetsons' styled cars.
So odd that an electric car would had paddles if it has no gears / gear box? Clearly a Friday afternoon copy and paste. Makes no sense.
i mean the interior is absolutely nothing like the glc and the glc has different head lights, also the glc doesn't have the light bar in the front. The eqc tail lights are also different and the glc hasn't got the light bar on the back either. the grill and bumper are also completely different on the glc but hey, it's basically just an electrified glc with no thought put into it :)
3 toones!! You'll need to get an HGV soon, thats a heavy milk float.
Very very nice wrist ware Tom lad
I'm not defending them, but cars like this are part of why 'tesla fanboys' get a bad rep. This car was not designed as an EV from the ground up, just like a lot of early EV's, and it shows in all the areas you pointed out. It was tossed out for emissions changes in the EU. I'm sure you'll like the next electric series more as those have been designed on a platform uniquely for EV's.
I have to add you are becoming a better car reviewer, this was very complete.
"It's got loads of clever tech in it, like voice recognition," Tom says, as it fires incorrectly
To be honest if you look at all there cars they are all the same inside. its only recently that things are changing a very small amount. cheaper production costs. those wheels look a nightmare to clean. Good review Tom.
Just watched the review you and your girl friend done on the roller...why didnt you give a bad comment on the gear selector on that car...its the same as the merc mate.
I wonder if the high window sills are anything to do with airbag curtains or something. I don't understand why manufacturers are putting the drive controls on a daft plastic stalk rather than on the transmission hump where they've always been since the year dot. The view out of the back window is majorly hampered by that middle head rest as well. Your first podcast was entertaining BTW.
Mercedes have had the gear stick on there for years
With all the bingos, bells and whistles merc put on this, sometimes less is more and Tesla embodies that , minimalistic interface but functional.
Because it's based on the glc but the batteries are on the bottom, the side windows are lower than the inside door frame, once you see it, it looks absolutely ridiculous, that's why one thinks the glass is massive on the outside.
Why the flappy paddles if no gears????
You set the regenerative braking with them...off thru to strong
That is indeed a massive disappointment...
School run car always going to be mundane surely 🤷🏼♂️ . GLC not a great car to start from
The only good thing is its a beast of take off.
This car is properly dull like most EVs are -apart from the Taycan . Teslas look like something found in the waste paper bin of a Mazda design studio and to be honest has never looked cutting edge.
4 mins in and to me it looks like they made it because they had to. How can mercedes make a horrible looking car. Definitely not a fan. But I do love the video and the new intro. So cool
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I agree TGE, I like to see-out of a practical car like a SUV (cameras or not), its quite disconcerting otherwise.
Tom what is the dial on the right of the dashboard.....looks like a rev counter as you pull away, but recording revolutions of what?!
Cant see any close ups of the dash on M-B's website to explain!
@RUclips listened and gave the lad the verified tick 💪🏻
Appreciate the honesty from these reviews
Sorry to say, but pls. get to know the features before talking about them. Paddle shifters - really !?
I don’t care that’s the best bit
Another TGE rant, love it
I actually read that the sales of the EQC have been extremely bad in germany at least. I looked it up because i was underwhelmed with it at the dealership. I don‘t seem to be the only one...
Audi E-tron is selling much more. Even here in Finland I've seen multiple E-trons but 0 EQC
Audi E-Tron is only selling good on paper tho, they gave this thing to every employee the could.
EQC is a flop. New one already coming, it reached HQ and that’s why the new one is coming so fast..
Looks like a pimped out A class. I don't get it why it is designed to looks so ugly.
I think what merc have done with this is give people who are used to a gas vehicle the exact same experience in an electric car, older people you could say. but still overall not very groundbreaking.
Volvo xc40 recharge > audi q4 etron > mercedez EQC.
The Merc/BMW/Audi collective have a very definite strategy with the vast majority of their electric vehicles, to make them look like their mainstream models or derivatives. I imagine the idea is to get their more conservative customers to accept electric vehicles and thus sell in better numbers. My guess would be in a few years time when the majority of 'normal' sales are electric we will see some production models looking more like the concept cars to provide the 'halo' effect, M4e anyone?. Two things need more development; range - perhaps once we get past the novelty of neck snapping acceleration, manufacturers will build electric cars with 450 miles range and 9 seconds to 60 times. However, the main issue is the charging network, the Government need to hang their heads in shame over that.................
Well there nothing Wrong with That So they The Gas Engine out That To me is Amazing. . Gas Engine out The Door. Range Rover Sucks . They Brake Down Daily . They are well known for Braking Down . I Would Take That Mercedes. Then The Jaguar as Well . Lots of Plastic in The Jaguar.
Is your keyboard broken?
Car manufacturers do share platforms across vehicles within their brands so the GLC sharing a platform with this EQC is standard practice.
Nice honest review lad. And you're not alone because where I live they really aren't selling. It's so bad that they stopped publishing the sales numbers. For references in the first couple months they didn't even sell 100
Good video as always sir, keep them coming!
The Jaguar I Pace is way faster more like 4.2 seconds
I got one in December and its brilliant, but we all have our own views.
I think it's a good looking car - you have educated me about it's dynamics though. Wait a year for a used one best policy. You've made me think, which is a good thing!
just another subjective opinion. For a C class it is above and beyond! Blind spots? Really? Apart from the fact that mirrors have warning lights and there is a signal every time someone get near you, it is more visible than many cars. Dashboard up to your chin? Raise you fricking seat! And it doesn't ground out, it has the plastic splashers that touch the ground on bumps, grounding is when the wheel tocuhes inside of the well and it doesn't do that!
Each to their own but I think it’s a terrible car
@@TGE I guess you never drove a Dacia then. You barely know what the car can do, you haven’t even tried the recuperation modes, you claimed it was bottoming out on bumps when it doesn’t, all other issues are just an opinion and due to lack of knowledge of the car’s abilities the opinion is far from subjective
Nobody going to mention the Hulk appearance?? Cash!!
The forthcoming Mercedes EQS saloon is a better comparison to the Tesla Model S saloon you are thinking of.
And for some balance....not mentioned is Tesla slow repairs, noisier buggier cars with some surprisingly undeveloped tech like their basic headlights and frost-prone doors and missing Apple carplay/Android Auto and stiff suspension
Tesla suv model type the Model Y also has letterbox rear window. Anyway the Mercedes has 360 degree birds eye view option so visibility much less of a problem. Tesla does not even have this as an option
Tesla suv aesthetics is like an uncosy 1 star hotel room "you get a tv". It also has plastic gear stick (copied from Mercedes). And less privacy
Tesla acceleration is far better if comparing Mercedes AMG *trim* line (not "real" AMG) to Tesla Plaid, and eventually can bring driveline shudder. Tesla range is also better for equivalent suvs but generally only means stopping for a charge 2 times instead of 3 on the odd long journey
That sun is chaos
Used potential buyer here, and I'm absolutely loving the used prices great depreciation and still under warranty.grab yourself a bargain!!! .I feel this guy has drove so many cars he has very high expectations nobody's coming from a range rover to a eqc, minor gripe ur winging for 2 mins straight, no one wants a space age electric vehicle they want a normal car with electric engine, spent a week with the car he didn't even know what the paddle.shifters were for its for braking regenerating the battery, his obviously got other priorities, he doesn't understand maximum.range mode, you need to put yourself in the shoes of the daily consumer such as a father with 2 kids....its not supposed to be a blown away type of feeling, my first electric car will be this...yes its an issue on your part mate! Tiff from 5th gear is an excellent car reviewer he likes the car enough said!.
Who are you talking to? 😂 Good luck with buying one. It’s one of the worst electric cars you can buy. Enjoy.
I'm talking to people who read the comments not you as your the kind of guy not to give a fuck....thanks for the luck.
Every other driver has no problem with the drive, you to damn fussy build your own EV
Hahaha someone bought one and is upset
Have you seen the EQC 4x4? looks much better
Jaguar I-Pace is a better option.
In my line of work I get to drive a lot of Mercedes an I’m got an gonna say cheap finish inside to look at an your feel 👎🏽 i drive the new Kia an it’s a Kia yes but you get what you pay for an for the money a lot lot better billet car feels like you’v had Kia over.. with Mercedes just a badge that looks good on your driveway.
BMW and Audi have always had far better quality.
Depends what Mercedes C class and up are good A & b not so good
Nice honest review lad. And you're not alone because where I live they really aren't selling. It's so bad that they stopped publishing the sales numbers. For references in the first couple months they didn't even sell 100
Except they do and the car is actually quite good. This is an opinion of the guy who complains he cannot see above the wheel while his seat is in the lowest position and has no idea that paddle shifts are used for adjusting battery recuperation. Really?
A really good review.. really funny without u trying to be funny 👏
This car is a lease only. But it's still lovely. The point that is missed in these reviews is that Merc, Audi, BMW have gone for using previous known platforms to safely release an EV. Future will produce more options. Paddles are for the regen braking selection etc. RDFM
I also had the scraping front on bumps too when I tested it lol
It's the plastic splashguards, they are too low, the car itself doesn't scrape.
2.5 tons is chaos. iPace is quicker too