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Mercedes-Benz EQS 580 4Matic Sedan

Mercedes-Benz EQS 580 4Matic Sedan Expert Review

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5 Seater

9.3/10 ★ SEV Score No ratings yet

1.30 -1.48 Cr (Ex)

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What's good

Impressive cabin technology, headlined by the Hyperscreen
Genuinely usable real-world range
Blistering, effortless performance from the 523 hp motor pair
Composed, hushed ride quality across most road surfaces

What's not so good

Low 124 mm ground clearance struggles with Indian speed breakers
Rear seat experience doesn’t quite match the S-Class
Interiors are a nightmare to maintain
Loads of controls placed inside the screen are confusing for many

9.3/10 ★ SEV Score No ratings yet

1.30 -1.48 Cr (Ex)

Check On-Road Price

What's good

Impressive cabin technology, headlined by the Hyperscreen
Genuinely usable real-world range
Blistering, effortless performance from the 523 hp motor pair
Composed, hushed ride quality across most road surfaces

What's not so good

Low 124 mm ground clearance struggles with Indian speed breakers
Rear seat experience doesn’t quite match the S-Class
Interiors are a nightmare to maintain
Loads of controls placed inside the screen are confusing for many

Mercedes-Benz EQS 580 4Matic Sedan Expert Review

See what our experts think about the Mercedes-Benz EQS 580 4Matic Sedan

9.3/10

SEV Score

10

Safety

10

Feature

9

Design

10

Performance & Range

8.2

Ride & Handling

9

Space & Comfort

10

Charging & Warranty

8

Service & Network

9.3/10

SEV Score

10

Safety

10

Feature

9

Design

10

Performance & Range

8.2

Ride & Handling

9

Space & Comfort

10

Charging & Warranty

8

Service & Network

Expert Verdict

At Rs 1.30 crore ex-showroom, Mercedes is betting that “electric flagship” and “still feels like a Mercedes” can occupy the same sentence, and for the most part, that bet lands. The luxury marquee’s firstborn EV, range anxiety simply isn’t a conversation with the EQS sedan. The cabin itself borders on science fiction, and the way it gathers speed is faintly rude for something this size. Where it asks for patience is the ordinary stuff: a nose that flinches at speed breakers, and a back-seat experience that still comes second to the vehicle that started it all: the S Class.

Mercedes-Benz EQS 580 4Matic Sedan Design

★ 9/10

Size alone tells you the EQS sedan isn’t hiding from attention, even if the styling itself plays it coy. At 5.2 metres nose to tail, riding on a 3.2-metre wheelbase, Mercedes’ electric flagship wears a monovolume shape that looks almost apologetic about being this large, helped along by flush door handles, a light-up star sitting where a grille would normally go, and 20-inch wheels shaped more by a wind tunnel than a stylist’s pen. All that obsessing produces a drag coefficient of 0.20Cd, a figure Mercedes still likes to remind you is among the lowest ever achieved on a production car. Whether the rather restrained design reads as maturity or as a missed chance to turn heads depends entirely on who’s looking.

Interior

Step inside, and ‘restraint’ is the last word that comes to mind. A 56-inch sheet of glass called the Hyperscreen runs pillar to pillar, hiding a 12.3-inch driver display, a 17.7-inch centre touchscreen, and a 12.3-inch passenger display underneath one continuous pane. The materials used and their quality are as expected from a Mercedes flagship. While most of the vehicle’s controls are inside the massive screen, Mercedes has thankfully retained some shortcut capacitive touch buttons on the steering wheel and the center console. These buttons can be used to operate the drive models, check battery and charge status, view the 360-degree surround camera, and use certain ADAS features. The active ambient lighting is also a very clever touch; the lights, for instance, on the doors, will glow in red if the vehicle spots an oncoming two-wheeler or pedestrian in the line of way.

Build Quality & Fit and Finish

Underneath the dashboard theatrics sits a car that feels reassuringly dense. Panel gaps are tight, doors shut with a bank-vault thud, and broken tarmac doesn’t produce a single rattle. The Hyperscreen, for all its party-trick appeal, is still one giant sheet of glass, so fingerprints and dust show up mercilessly in daylight, a problem Mercedes hasn’t solved as thoroughly as it has almost everything else here. Fit and finish; otherwise, it sits right where you’d expect this badge to land.

Mercedes-Benz EQS 580 4Matic Sedan Features

★ 10/10

Few cars sold in India, at any price, throw this much technology at a customer. The Hyperscreen system alone would be enough of a headline, but Mercedes piles on gesture control, face and voice recognition, an augmented-reality navigation system that overlays directions onto a live feed of the road ahead, and a configurable head-up display so you never need to glance down.

What we really appreciate about the screen’s workflow is what Mercedes likes to call the zero layer mode. This essentially keeps those features on top that you interact the most with and displays any new data or information in small windows or tabs. Moreover, the passenger screen dims automatically if the driver looks at it. Another quirky feature is the exterior mirror adjustment in case the driver stares hard at them. There’s a game integration feature buried in the menus that nobody asked for but everyone tries once. And the whole system now runs on a version of MBUX that has genuinely matured into something very quick to respond. If there’s a knock here, it’s that so many functions live inside touch-sensitive surfaces that a first-time passenger will need a minute just to locate the basic functions.

The massage function comes standard up front, four-zone climate control keeps everyone happy, and the Burmester sound system fills the cabin without distorting even when pushed uncomfortably loud. Rear passengers also get two dedicated rear entertainment screens, alongside a Samsung tablet that can be used to control a host of car functions. Mercedes has also added the ‘comfort doors’ option that can open themselves if so instructed. Speaking of intelligent convenience tech, the EQS sedan allows you to raise its ride height by up to 15 mm under speeds of 50 kmph, and the vehicle automatically saves those specific GPS coordinates to memory.

Mercedes-Benz EQS 580 4Matic Sedan Performance & Range

★ 10/10

India gets the single, top-of-the-line configuration of the EQS, the 580 4MATIC, and it wastes no time showing what a dual-motor electric flagship can do. 523 hp and 855 Nm arrive with an immediacy that puts 100 kmph up in 4.3 seconds, a number that would embarrass plenty of cars carrying an AMG badge, let alone ones that don’t.

Mercedes caps the top speed electronically at 210 kmph, plenty for anything short of a racetrack, and power delivery in Comfort mode has been likened, not unfairly, to the muted shove of a big naturally aspirated V8 before Sport mode wakes the whole thing up and adds real urgency to throttle response.

Range is where the EQS pulls away from nearly everything else on sale here. The 107.8 kWh battery gets quoted with a claimed ARAI-certified range of 857 km, though expect something closer to 650 to 700 km in real-world conditions. Charging keeps pace too: a 200 kW DC fast charger takes the pack from 10 to 80 per cent in roughly half an hour; an 11 kW AC wallbox needs about ten hours for a similar top-up, and that drops to around five and a half hours if your home setup can handle the optional 22 kW charger.

Mercedes-Benz EQS 580 4Matic Sedan Ride & Handling

★ 8.2/10

For something weighing close to 2.6 tonnes, the EQS hides its bulk astonishingly well. Torque vectoring, standard 4MATIC all-wheel drive, and rear-axle steering (Mercedes says early India cars get the wider-angle version, capable of turning up to 10 degrees) work together to shrink the car’s footprint at low speed while keeping it planted through faster corners, where the low centre of gravity from the underfloor battery pack does most of the heavy lifting. Adaptive air suspension and genuinely effective active noise cancellation keep the cabin hushed at every speed. Broken surfaces get absorbed rather than transmitted, and the overall sensation, even from the back seat, leans closer to floating than driving.

The one place Mercedes’ engineers seem to have compromised is ground clearance, and on Indian roads that compromise shows up often. At just 124 mm, the nose needs real care over speed breakers. Though with the available air suspension setup, you can raise the height by up to 15 mm, being cautious over anything that looks like a speed breaker is given.

The standard-fit Active Brake Assist can also get twitchy enough in dense city traffic that most owners end up switching it off rather than tolerating false alarms. None of this undoes what is otherwise a genuinely accomplished chassis, but it does mean the EQS wants a more considered driving style around town than its badge might suggest.

Mercedes-Benz EQS 580 4Matic Sedan Safety

★ 10/10

Mercedes had put the EQS sedan through the 2021 Euro NCAP crash test, and that result is about as reassuring as five stars gets: 96 per cent for adult occupant protection, 91 per cent for child occupants, 76 per cent for vulnerable road users, and 80 per cent on the safety-assist scorecard. Nine airbags come standard, and the active safety suite runs deep, covering Blind Spot Assist, Lane Keep Assist, Evasive Steering Assist, PRE-SAFE Impulse Side protection, and Active Distance Assist DISTRONIC for adaptive cruise duties, alongside a 360-degree camera for tight Indian streets and parking.

Mercedes-Benz EQS 580 4Matic Sedan Space & Comfort

★ 9/10

Boot Space, Cabin Space

Unlike its India-built rivals, the EQS skips the frunk entirely. Pop the bonnet, and you’ll find Mercedes’ cabin air-filtration hardware and front-axle components rather than a second boot, a deliberate choice made to keep the nose sealed and aerodynamically clean. What you get instead is a proper 610-litre boot behind a hatchback-style powered tailgate, tall and deep enough to swallow a long weekend’s worth of luggage without folding anything down, though there’s no spare wheel underneath, only a repair kit.
Cabin space up front is generous and beautifully finished, but the rear bench, plush as it is for two, isn’t quite configured to match the S-Class for outright room. Mercedes gives rear occupants a Samsung tablet built into the centre armrest for climate and entertainment control, along with cooled, well-bolstered seats. Treat it as a four-seater rather than a five-seater, and you’ll come away far more impressed.

Headroom, Sitting Posture, Under-thigh support

Front-seat comfort is where the EQS pulls ahead, with a massage function, generous adjustment range, and under-thigh support. Headroom stays comfortable for taller occupants despite the sloping roofline, helped by the fact that Mercedes never had to fight a transmission tunnel or an engine block for interior packaging space.

At the rear, cushioning is good, and the flat floor helps the middle occupant marginally. However, thigh support isn’t the best, and sit a bit knees up as well. It’s comfortable rather than outstanding for three abreast, and Mercedes clearly designed this to be chauffeur-driven for two rather than filled to capacity every trip.

Mercedes-Benz EQS 580 4Matic Sedan Charging & Warranty

★ 10/10

Charging infrastructure used to be the EQS’s soft spot in India, but Mercedes has quietly fixed most of that. The recently launched MB.Charge app bundles discovery, payment, and connectivity across multiple charging networks into a single interface, and it’s offered free to existing Mercedes EV owners. On the hardware side, 200 kW DC fast-charging capability paired with flexible AC options, 11 kW as standard and 22 kW available, means home and highway top-ups both stay quick.
Every Mercedes-Benz sold in India, EQS included, carries a standard three-year, unlimited-mileage warranty, extendable in yearly increments out to six years through the brand’s Advance Assurance programme. The high-voltage battery gets its own cover of 8-year or 160,000 km.

Mercedes-Benz EQS 580 4Matic Sedan Service & Network

★ 8/10

This is where the EQS’s numbers stop looking quite so flattering. Mercedes-Benz India runs a network stretching across more than 60 cities through upwards of 150 customer touchpoints. In terms of charging infrastructure, the MB.Charge service integrates access to more than 9,000 DC fast chargers, including those from third parties.

Who should buy this?

If you want a technologically dense electric flagship money can currently buy in India, and you’re not fussed about ground clearance, the EQS is close to unbeatable. However, for most buyers, cross-shopping would happen within the same brand umbrella, more specifically so, the regular S Class. And that ICE vehicle still reigns supreme in the backseat experience.

9.3/10 ★ SEV Score No ratings yet

1.30 -1.48 Cr (Ex)

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