Mercedes EQS: virtually the best car I’ve ever driven
A virtual test drive is something of a first for us, but can you really discern anything tangible about a brand new car from 600 miles away?
8 April 2021 • 6:00am
The battery-powered EQS is launched later this year. Bucking the large car trend, it's a hatchback rather than a saloon
We don’t do passenger-seat test drives; full stop. These well-worn devices generally come before the launch of an important new car and are misleading at best. A journalist sits alongside a talented test engineer who rattles off complicated technical information while driving gently to obscure less positive traits and you end up with conclusions which amount to not much more than “promising”.