Dashboard design isn't something you'd usually look for when you first shop for a new car.
But there's a manufacturer out there who's taken things well to a whole new level...
Not one...not two...
But three seamless screens built into the dashboard to make
one of the most impressive things I've ever laid my eyes on.
This is the MBUX hyperscreen
spanning over 141cm wide it stretches from A Pillar to A Pillar and uses OLED display
technology to offer the highest contrast the brightest pixels and the deepest blacks.
And in this video today I'm covering the incredible MBUX screen in depth.
Now
I'm absolutely just blown away by this.... Look at the size of this screen!
It's...Who in Mercedes thoughts that I know let's just replace your dashboard with an entire screen.
It looks absolutely incredible! I don't know where to look all of it looks absolutely stunning!
Looks like it's come out of a concept car or like a sci-fi movie or something.
So what I thought I'd share with you all today is
kind of like a walkthrough guide of what MBUX Hyperscreen does.
Obviously you can see what it is because
it's such a kind of head turner as soon as you look in the car but we'll show you so.
As you can see it's kind of divided into these like
three sections so you've got if we start here the instrument cluster.
So here you obviously have your usual things like
all of your trip information and there's a few different display styles you can customise there.
Then you've got your centre screen so that allows you to do your usual things like
Phone, Navi, Radio & Media functions along many other settings and then
something slightly different there's a screen over on the passenger side.
Now if there's a passenger sat there on the passenger seat they can actually control
and playback movies and things like that over there.
So I'll have to sit in that seat to get that screen activated
so I'll do that in a minute but let's make a start on this screen right here.
So yes this is the instrument cluster so quite simply pressing the home button
allows you to bring up well all of the different display styles that you
can do so let's make a start with the left-hand one which is 'Understated'.
Basically kind of like a very minimalistic kind of screen only highlighting the most
important information and then going over here to 'Sport'.
Kind of useful if you want to see your G-Force readings but yeah quite a unique display style
there and obviously being electric is quite powerful so might be quite a common one that one!
Or you can go for some traditional dials like classic which I quite like the look of
because those blue things almost look like lasers or lightsabers so they they do look
pretty futuristic and obviously being blue match all that ambient lighting.
Now one of my personal favourites is actually navigation I've noticed on here.
We go on here this literally makes your entire screen in front of you
into the sat nav now if you look really closely over on the water there.
It's actually rippling the water is rippling on the sat nav screen and
yes it does do it on the centre screen here as well so.
Mercedes don't have to do that but they just go the extra mile just to
give you that kind of edge it just yeah you don't have to make the water ripple but why not?
But yes then after this we have another one called Assistance so if you have either
a car with Driving Assistance Package or something like that you can obviously see some assistance
systems and you can see a car in front of you but like this here and then the final screen
would be service just in case you want to see any service information and that sort of thing.
So yeah all really really good I think most of the time some people
probably choose the first few but um i'm going to leave it on that one for now.
But that is a very basic run through of the
instrument cluster now let's turn our attention to the grand masterpiece.
The largest screen out of the three
which I was going to try because with a screen this big, can you play movies on it?
So let's give that a go!
Um yes is the answer to that!
So yes you can play video content movies from a memory stick, I've just popped a memory second
here just to play something on the screen and yeah you could literally watch a movie in here.
Now obviously I would imagine it would grey out when you're driving to stop any
distractions from the driver or anything because
that would be extremely distracting if you're watching a movie on there.
So I'd imagine it'd probably still play the audio content but obviously hey if you're waiting for a
charge which doesn't take long in this car so this is the EQS that I'm in. If you find
a rapid charger it can charge it within about 30 minutes so up to about 80 on DC charging.
So yeah obviously you probably won't have to wait for the hot entire movie but
yeah you can watch stuff on here obviously it's not all
about movies so let's hit the Home button and show you what else this screen can do.
So this is what you'll normally come to with when you turn it on
you'll have your sat nav screen just here and what Mercedes-Benz have actually very
cleverly designed on this new multimedia system MBUX NTG 7 (known internally).
It's basically a thing called Zero Layer now you don't have to use this thing called Zero
Layer you could make use of a more traditional menu layout but the way this works is like this.
So on here you can either have Zero layer or Classic.
What Zero Layer does is basically around the kind of exterior here on the
almost in the shape of an L you'll have different things appear depending on what you're doing
so for example if you plug the car into charge you'll see that information up here.
If someone rings you you'll have that information down here and likewise I've got
some media playback there that shows you that they're front and centre
and it kind of just intelligently predicts things based on what you're going to do.
Meaning you don't have to go through so many menus to do things
which is quite useful because with such a large screen and large setup,
the last thing you want to be doing is driving and pressing buttons on here and things like that.
So Zero Layer is quite a useful thing especially with something like this because yeah that won't
lie that would be quite distracting if you were having to go through menus and things.
Now you can do it a more traditional way if you want if you hold the home button
you can then put it to 'Classic'.
So this is what most cars look like these days where you go into the menu so if you go into here
you have all your settings in there.
Go into the sat nav and you have all your sat nav things in there and then Phone and
so on and so forth.
But the zero layer thing is quite useful because it kind of just puts everything on the home screen
and the relevant tiles and the most important information appear as and when you need it.
Now of course I won't run through the entire MBUX system in here just because I'm going
to save that for a future video where I'll run through virtually everything that this offers
but I have made a video on my five favourite things on this system which is found in:
C-Class, SL, which will be the new GLC as well, EQE & EQS, so click on the pop-up
banner up at the top if you wanted to see my 5 favourite things on that multimedia system.
But now let's turn our attention to the passenger screen
which as you can see at the moment is just loaded with Mercedes-Benz stars
but something different happens when you sit in the passenger seat...or if you have a passenger.
So let's do that!
So and then finally the passenger screen so notice here now there
is an on and off button which appears automatically when someone is sat here.
I guess just to stop any distractions to the driver because it is such a large screen so
tapping this button will bring the screen on and it's basically just like a mini version of MBUX
but their own system in here kind of linked but also separate to this one.
And the reason for that when I kind of say that is because you can have
something playing on this screen like that.
But then you can also watch from the same memory stick
another file but kind of completely separate.
So you can each watch your own thing while charging or
while waiting for someone and that sort of thing.
This is quite clever because you can actually connect up your headphones
to this so Bluetooth headphones and watch your own content on here and
then obviously the driver has their own thing over there as well of course not while driving so...
Say maybe you're waiting to pick someone up or waiting for your
car to charge or something you can each watch your own movie or content on there.
Not all about movies of course so
let's show you what else the screen can do so if I put that back and pause that.
And then just come out of this and then we'll go to the home screen.
So this bit here as I said it's like a mini version of MBUX so you have your Mercedes EQ
things in here so you can go into here and look at things like your
charging and just a few parameters and settings on that sort of thing.
And then over here we've got the navigation so yes you can literally program in Sat Nav destinations
here which will then of course go to the driver's screens because it can go to both.
And then we've got phone obviously connect your phone up and of course while on that topic down
here I noticed there's like a little bluetooth headphone button so you connect your Bluetooth
headphones up or the button next to it kind of shares it through all the speakers in the car.
So...in case I don't know someone was watching something and wanted to share it with everyone
in the car then you can do that and then of course a few things like apps and which
I know Mercedes-Benz are working on, I think they're adding a few things even
some games I've heard are coming in the future like Tetris I think?
You can play Tetris in the car?
I think there's a few more apps and games coming as well but
you'll have to stay tuned and have a look at those when they come out!
But yeah other than that there's a few settings and things to control on there
and there is also one final thing actually on the top right of both screens there is this
kind of share content button so basically if you have something playing on the big screen,
you can kind of share it with the passenger or vice versa you can share it with each other.
I guess like a particular point in the playback or something you can
kind of share it to the other screen but yeah that is the passenger screen there
and as soon as the passenger gets out you notice that the screen will go directly back
off again and just go to those kind of Mercedes stars just to stop any unwanted distractions.
But there we go guys that is the MBUX Hyperscreen
and I gotta say that looks absolutely incredible i would love that in my own car.
I don't think I'd be able to take my eyes off it looks absolutely incredible!
But guys so if you wanted to see the EQS this is the EQS here if you wanted to see
the review of that I did a few months ago check this video out right here because
I did review it and I've got to say it is one of Mercedes Benz's best models to date.
It is incredible taking all that S-Class technology!
Huge shout out to Sandown Mercedes as they help provide access to all these awesome cars you
see in the videos so huge shout out to them but guys until next week we'll see you then!