Mercedes-Benz S550 2014 Review

 

The Good:-

Mammoth cabin space and quality are smooth roll cab 2014 Mercedes-Benz S550 the place to be, either in front or behind. Panels and large LCD panel technology to stay ahead of the pack LED. A new post of Director Assist makes driving in heavy traffic.

The Bad:-

App integration load too slow for general use. Virtual instrument gauges are a bit flat, and it takes a graphical indicator of fuel.

The Bottom Line:-

Mercedes - Benz is a big step forward with its flagship S550 sedan in 2014 , improving almost all the features of this updated model , but the integration of the application suffers from slow connection time .While driving the 2014 Mercedes - Benz S550 for this review , a number of nicknames come to mind. Because of its great comfort and luxury, shopping gods thought. The darkness of the paint and subtle exterior lines suggested Death Star . While powering by a winding mountain road, the car seemed too perfect to pack full of evil and going to James Bond in his Aston Martin , both anonymous bad car , maybe.Given its size ( over 17 feet), the powerful engine , and peak loads , it is certainly worth more than a nickname .Luxury flagship sedan Mercedes - Benz S -Class has faced stiff competition from the Audi A8 to equal the Hyundai Equus . The company obviously could not rest on its laurels , especially considering the much lower price of some other big and fancy rolls .

Sample S550 2014 Mercedes-Benz has taken the threat seriously and has designed a car that will force other luxury automakers to their drawing boards. With the new body design, a large cabin, large LCD panels for instruments and techniques of the cabin, and fuel-saving technology, the Mercedes-Benz adds a management innovation that will help ease the pipe and S550 to a step closer to being a autonomous car.

Dark & Sinister:-

The term "understated elegance" seems designed specifically for the body of the S550. Despite a silver grille dominates the front, the skin lacks ornamentation or embellishment. This is a very clean look. This aspect, although the shape is nothing like a small moon, that's what made ​​me think Death Star would be an appropriate name. And while some drivers gave me a thumbs up while driving, more disaster seemed to find the large sedan, black, and went off the road to let me pass.

Planting a flag in the future, Mercedes-Benz S550 note that not a single incandescent bulb - the flag cabin lights for tail lights, all lighting comes from LEDs.

The first S -Class models to hit showrooms all come standard with a long wheelbase , which means a very large back room . None of the passengers called shotgun, and you could make it a habit to let friends drive , so you can be in the back . The rear seats are electrically adjustable with comfortable pillows attached to the head restraint and a dedicated roof .The front seats feature lounge chairs and the largest surface. Among the seven different massage settings , there was a couple that combines seat heating function with internal rollers . The controls for adjusting the seats were mounted on doors and ergonomic finesse that I have always appreciated Mercedes - Benz . For a typical over-the -top , the glove held a container of perfume, a kind of aromatherapy system for the cabin.From front to back , the S550 felt like a car worthy of the gods.

Wide-Screen Times Two:-

Mercedes-Benz adopts the technology in the cabin, the most obvious sign is the large board two LCD panels. Of course, the previous S550 had an LCD in the center of the instrument panel for navigation and other advanced features of the cabin, but it is 2014 model jumbo, with the center of the screen that looks like a foot wide. The LCD shows the Mercedes-Benz Command interface standard using menu strip at the top and bottom, but all screens have been redesigned to update the look and design of information.

In front of the driver , Mercedes - Benz wiped analog gauges for a complete table LCD panel . I like this move , but the virtual speedometer and tachometer could use some refinement. Vi virtual gauges that were difficult to distinguish from the real thing, but the S550 is a bit flat . But I did not like the fuel level indicator , only a percentage of fuel that is displayed on the bottom of the speedometer. Mercedes - Benz may have splashed on a graph on the fuel level .Little has changed with the technological characteristics of the underlying cabin , and is a good thing. Mercedes - Benz main benefits of large LCD display cards are manufactured with 3D buildings . The large screen size , it was easy for me to collect information at a glance , as the flow of traffic. And the map even showed intersections have traffic lights.Under route guidance , the S550 has done a great job of giving me instructions floor. Not only the voice prompts read street names and give a good warning for turns , the graphics on the screen as lane guidance and good representations of the motorway junctions . In addition , dynamic routing transparent recalculated to take me away from most poor circulation.Address entry used the same pattern as in the previous model S550 - I had to turn the dial to the Command interface to scroll painfully through the alphabet and choose the letters . However, the response time was fast and the system was predictive , which gave me a list of all possible outcomes based on the letters I had chosen. Think of it as a good version of automatic correction.

Better still , Mercedes - Benz has finally updated its voice command system , so you could say a full chain management system and analyze city, street and number. Voice command also gave me a detailed control of the music, leaving wonder music by artist or album name of a disk or an iOS device I connected to one of the two USB ports on the S550 . As in other models of Mercedes - Benz , I could also make calls by saying the contact's name in the paired Bluetooth phone .Other audio sources include HD Radio, Bluetooth streaming , integrated hard drive , six-CD changer , and again from Mercedes - Benz , Tune-In Radio application online. I liked the new screens from the music library , which includes an option for choosing the photo books.For another touch of luxury Mercedes - Benz S550 offers a standard Burmester audio system. The car was checked upgraded to a Burmester surround sound system and had attractive aluminum speaker grills. The sound quality was incredibly detailed and balanced. Listen acoustic pieces by civil war, he could hear the vibrations of individual guitar strings, bright against supporting attacks. Hacking the three-band equalizer, which pumps the bass and I have a blow convincing clearly shook the air of the cabin. When turned up the volume, the music became more enjoyable and undistorted.Tune-In Radio, part of the application library of Mercedes - Benz , was the most successful of adding online functionality found that Mercedes - Benz Applications took too long to connect to be useful. This car was always going to applications such as Google and Facebook, but they tend to maintain a music app Tune-In race for some time, so time was prolonged load a smaller percentage of my use application. Let me dig Tune-In online radio worldwide and playing on the car stereo system. For the S550, Mercedes - Benz has added more applications than other cars with this feature, but it will not be a success until the company focuses on the loading time.

It would also be nice to see Pandora in the mix, since it has been widely adopted by other manufacturers.

Take The Reins:-

All this technical post seemed to be a lot to handle , but the S550 was there to help with driving. Mercedes - Benz launched the adaptive cruise control with an earlier generation of the S -Class, and now joins an effort to address quasi -autonomous function . Adaptive cruise control is based on the radar to detect the speed of all vehicles to come and combine this speed if it is slower than it is set for the cruise control. I have traveled hundreds of miles in a row without touching the accelerator pedal or the brake with adaptive cruise control .Management Support is a new wrinkle in the adaptive cruise control . S550 is the stereoscopic camera mounted on the windshield in front of the mirror. These cameras allow the car to the location of the lane lines . When I activated the system adaptive cruise control , the car not only matches the speed of slower traffic ahead, but tried to keep his position on the track , the active steering to compensate for the curves.

With steering assist reminded me a story about a milkman who began his career with a horse and cart delivery. He jumped from the basket, take a bottle rack, and then down an alley between a block to put the bottles down on each side. Meanwhile, the horse plodded on the main street of his own will, to meet the milk at the end of the block. When the dairy exchanged horse and carriage of a truck parked permanently, deliver milk, and then back to the van and lost some more houses. Lather, rinse, repeat.

The S550 is not as smart as the old horse delivery, but their sensors could see the road and the wheel seemed using reins to guide a horse.
At highway speeds, the direction was not strong enough to keep the car in its lane without my help, and the car gave me a warning when I took my hands off the wheel. However, at speeds up to 18 mph, Mercedes-Benz says the system that will keep you in your lane and do not mind to keep your hands on the wheel.
I was in one, the traffic situation in the short slow enough to try it, but, putting my faith in the German genius, I dropped the wheel and I was quite impressed how the car drove.

One warning, the system only works when the cameras can be distinguished track lines. A small wheel icon turns green when the car meets this condition. I had to keep this icon, as often is giving bad road work, which was often unable to get a lock on the lines.
Mercedes-Benz made ​​a number of other driver assistance features available on the S550, which includes a night vision system. This model comes with a blind-spot monitor that flashed icons on the side mirrors when it was not safe to change lanes. Monitors blind spots are one of my favorite features of security, and very useful in the great S550. The rear camera also showed incredibly sharp detail and the large LCD display makes possible a huge image with path lines to assist parking.

Eco Or Sport:-

When I turned off the cruise control and reclaimed full control of the S550, but it was easy cruising strained when pushed. With 455 horsepower and 516 lb-ft of torque, this engine gives the big sedan sufficient thrust. Like other models designated 550 Mercedes-Benz S550 gets a 4.6-liter V-8, which uses direct injection and twin turbochargers to boost efficiency and.
At the time of this review, Mercedes-Benz had not released the curb weight of the vehicle, but it takes time for zero to 60 mph in 4.8 seconds, very respectable for this great roll.

I liked the way Mercedes - Benz kept simple training modes . The S550 is either Eco or Sport , because why would you need more granularity ? An additional button to adjust the air suspension between comfort and sport , former make it feel as if the car floats over potholes and bumps .In the city and on the highway , I went in Eco mode , which softens the throttle response, making it easier to bring in traffic and make good out of the line quiet not to disturb the Capuchin my passengers . In this mode, stamped on the gas pedal made ​​to feel as if the car had to pick up its power before it all starts with a power locomotive like .The seven-speed automatic transmission shifted smoothly in all gears , looking for the highest speed available. Every time I looked the virtual speedometer , sat at 1,500 rpm , so navigating the city streets at 20 miles per hour or speeding down the highway at 70 .Stimulated electrically steering offered little resistance , which makes maneuvering easy but insensitive response . Despite the great cabin , the S550 felt like a smaller car that cut through traffic , taking advantage of openings for quick changes of direction .

Stunning , the idle stop function of S550 was not a problem . Idle -stop shuts off the engine when stopped at a red light , and its rival manufacturer BMW has struggled to take this option runs smoothly on your big motor cars . In S550, the engine usually runs so quietly I had to check the tachometer to know when it was actually arrested . When you get off the brake pedal , the engine starts again with the sweetness of a small four-cylinder engine . Could turn idle stop with the touch of a button, but found no need , and appreciated the fact that the large V -8 was not burning gas while sitting at a red light minutes .As for fuel economy , Mercedes - Benz has no official EPA figures at the time of this review. The onboard computer showed the mid -20s on the highway and high teens in the city , I hope . My average, including highway, city and some raucous driving way back , stood at 18.2 mpg.With sport mode engine and suspension S550 , becomes what Anonymous Baddie car to track James Bond. And showing a good sense of place, probably not down . Nimble is not a word that is used for the S550, and would not be my first choice for the race through the elbows in a good way.It is decently high speed, but the air suspension , even in Sport mode , I could not keep up in the corners. Mercedes - Benz offered an option called magical control of the body, the car has not proven, that not only suspension response more active in the corners, but uses cameras to scan the surface of the road car and meet program corresponding behavior . This option would make the car handle tight turns and better contribute to a more comfortable ride .

Start Motor Sport mode makes the gas pedal almost too sensitive . My small entrance leads to a power surge, unexpected given the much more docile environmental performance . Personally , I like the answer of Sport mitigated a bit , but the James Bond villain average game may prefer the pedal more sensitive.The transmission also has a different character in Sport mode , letting the tachometer needle crawls around the dial . I was impressed when hard braking before a turn, the transmission multiplied rapidly , and then took a solid 4500 engine rpm , while I was out of turn.The S550 comes equipped with paddles on the steering wheel and manual transmission has led to rapid changes. However, I could not find a way to keep the car in manual mode . When I left intact pallets for a few minutes as a straight line , the transmission returns to automatic .

A Bold Step Forward:-

With the 2014 S550, Mercedes-Benz shows what a flagship sedan should be. This car debuts new technologies and plants the Mercedes-Benz marque firmly in the future. Impressively, Mercedes-Benz doesn't coddle older buyers who might feel uncomfortable with virtual gauges, LED lighting, and near-autonomous features, instead implementing available advances that improve driving comfort and safety.
Steering Assist may seem radical, but it represents the same type of step forward Mercedes-Benz made previously with its Distronic Plus adaptive cruise control.
The tech features in the new S550 are almost too numerous to mention, and most are implemented successfully. The massive center LCD makes cabin tech features less distracting, as well-designed screens make it easy to pick up information at a glance. The LCD instrument cluster could use a better 3D look, but it represents the wave of the future for cars.
Fuel economy may be middling, but the S550's engine shows off a good set of modern efficiency and power technologies, and its seven-speed automatic transmission responded well in both Eco and Sport modes. Mercedes-Benz also implemented an idle-stop feature worthy of the company's luxury brand.
Navigation and audio systems are also top-notch, and the Burmester audio system is a delight to the ears. App integration remains the one weak spot in this technology cornucopia. Mercedes-Benz gave the S550 more apps than on its previous models, but the company needs to negotiate a better, always-on data connection for the car.

Tech Specs:-

Model	2014 Mercedes-Benz S550
Trim	Base
Power train	Turbocharged direct-injection 4.6-liter V-8, 7-speed automatic transmission
EPA fuel economy	Not available
Observed fuel economy	18.2 mpg
Navigation	Standard hard-drive-based system with traffic
Bluetooth phone support	Standard with contact list integration
Digital audio sources	Internet-based radio, onboard hard drive, Bluetooth streaming, iOS integration, USB drive, SD card, HD Radio, satellite radio
Audio system	Burmester system
Driver aids	Optional adaptive cruise control with steering assistance, blind-spot monitor, backup camera, night vision, surround-view camera, lane-keeping assistance, massage seats

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