I thought the Vision Concept was the most beautiful car inside and out that I had ever seen and was hoping that many of its design elements would make it into EQS production. To my mind, Mercedes instead decided to bring the video arcade design aesthetic of its new ICE cars over to the EQS. Mercedes has apparently decided that luxury equates to stuffing the interior with quilted upholstery, faux piano lacquer bit and bobs, chrome accents everywhere, and LED strip lighting in every nook and cranny. The exterior is likewise laden with chrome strips on every single crease and line that could sport them. All that's missing is a vinyl roof and opera windows to make the 70's real again.
Our new Tesla Model S Plaid arrived at the Service Center yesterday, and we drove up to take a look at it. As it still had shipping wrap on it, they wouldn't open it up for us to examine the interior. I am not a fan of the too-self-consciously-spartan look of Tesla interiors, and we chose a black interior to minimize the effect of featureless vegan leather panels all over the car. However, I find going to the extreme of Tesla's simplicity more tolerable than going to the decorative excess of Mercedes' new look.
Having sat in two Lucid Airs, I still find its exterior and interior aesthetic to be the most balanced design going right now in the world of EVs . . . not to mention its stellar performance and range specs.
I just hope they get the damned thing into production at some point.