Thread 28552470

yup the automotive industry is dead

That is pretty bleak. I assume they aren't animated while driving, hopefully?

Can I play Pong or Tetris on it?

>>28552470 (OP)
Kitschy

>>28552470 (OP)
allowing chinks to drive has been a disaster for the human race

Tacky shit on every car, I'm not surprised anymore

>>28552473
>taxi owners start displaying their company name on the grille
lmao

>>28552473
>zoomer ADHD Minecraft/GTA video plays across the front while it's at a red light

>It is the perfect fusion of lasting design codes reinterpreted for the future
Mercedes design boss, Gordon Wagener
>lasting design

>>28552470 (OP)
Can it run Doom?

>>28552470 (OP)
here is your $10,000 new fender
Hope you dont get into a tinniest of accidents, or we'll have to write off the entire car

>>28552516
>Tacky shit on every car
This. I just want a practical car that looks like a practical car. We used to have those. Now they're impossible to fine.
Even the most basic cars go for the angular sporty look and that's just stupid when it's being powered by some 78hp 3 cylinder engine.

>>28552830
Practically every manufacturer had one small car, one hatchback, sedan, station wagon, minivan... You could always choose something according to your taste and needs. Now? SUV upon SUV on SUV. Without buttons, with screens, with poor materials and tack af

Fucking disgusting

>>28552830
>I just want a practical car that looks like a practical car
Then why didnt you buy a nissan versa?

>>28552838
>>28552830
I bought a 2026 Civic and it's practical with physical knobs and buttons for everything. Even the radio in can be operated without ever touching the screen except for station presets. Everything feels solid and doesn't squeak or rattle.
Only thing that really annoys me is the front grill is like 70% fake.

>>28552847
>front grill is like 70% fake
That's tacky.

>>28552846
This. Most practical car currently on the market and also the cheapest new car in the US.
Real gauges, manual transmission with a real hand brake, non-sporty styling, no tacky ipad in the way of the windshield, great MPG and plenty of space. It's simply the creme de la creme of practicality in 2025.

>>28552470 (OP)
The EQ series have the worst grills I have ever seen. Its comically bad lmao.

>>28552830
>Even the most basic cars go for the angular sporty look and that's just stupid when it's being powered by some 78hp 3 cylinder engine.
I hate this new styling but "sporty looks on an unspecial car" has been a tried-and-true recipe for ages.
>>28552838
Gotta keep the profit margins high mate. Car manufacturing is infamous for its tight margins.

>>28552854
It is and it annoys me, but at least I don't have to look at it when I drive it.

>>28552847
I don't understand why that screen can't be built into the dashboard. It makes me so angry

>>28552895
Yeah, I've thought about replacing it with a single din radio so it'd fit into the dash better, but nobody makes conversion kits for it. Honda could've reduced the bezels on it by like 50% and it'd at least have been a lot lower, but I think they wanted it to match the height of the gauge cluster hump.

>>28552895
Because normalfags LOVE screens.

>>28552900
My god

>>28552470 (OP)
>Mercedes
Oh no! Anyway...

>>28552854
>>28552891
>front grill is like 70% fake
It's not like a car with any efficiency really needs that thing unless you're racing it on a track in the heat of the devil's rectum.
Above a certain latitude, your engine will likely run better around the year if you just block the fucking cheese grater with cardboard or something.

If your car actually needs a grille-ful of air, you're either hooning it like a tard or its engine is actually some kind of heating device that accidentally generates some mechanical power due to its designers being confused about what they were making.

EVs are dead, yeah.

>>28552900
I almost didn't notice the second screen for AC

>>28552470 (OP)
Looks like it can play Wheel of Fortune.

>>28552900
>>28552895
rememeber when electronic VFD screens were cool?

>>28552984
thats CRT not VFD

Still, both look better than LED

>>28552470 (OP)
>hopes its EVs stand out with a pixelated Grill(e).
Huh, so it'll be just like the Hyundais, Kias, Fords, Slates, Audis, and every other car out there with pixelated accents?

>>28552473
I would be cool with it being animated IF it's user programmable. But im sure it wont be.
https://youtu.be/uVQdEPag3QM?si=jKCfr_uH_tGJRy_8

bravo, mercedes
we still unsure why the majority of the public wants to buy the chinese cars, but we must do all it takes to protect our brave car industry inovating with *check notes* pixels on the front grill

>>28552470 (OP)
They seriously must have design teams made up entirely of women and fags. Put high T straight white men on the design team and you'll get a non-gay car.

>>28552470 (OP)
can i write nigge* 6 times on that thang?

>a front grill design I don't like?
>the automotive industry is dead, the west has fallen
God, you guys are such whiny bitches.

>>28552470 (OP)
F

>>28552470 (OP)
Should just make it a screen display so owners can put wherever they want on it.

>>28553047
This is why ESG and DEI is so devastating to the West

Car design, bridge building, architecture, airplane software, video games and media. It is all crumbling when you don't have straight white men at the helm. This explicitly excludes Jews

>>28552470 (OP)
Yawn, wake me up when it's programmable RGB, unc.

mercedes deserves so much more hate than theyre already getting. the tacky screen market is dominated by the chinese. who the fuck wants this garbage? watch its msrp be 150k too lie the interior isnt cheap plastic shit

Imagine the cost if you damage the front bumper

>>28554466
In many places, Merc is all about the costs of maintaining the things.
Just by driving one, you show everyone around you that you can afford to keep it on the road. The yearly expenses can be higher than the purchase price of a somewhat used shitbox.

>>28552470 (OP)
Why don't they just paint it with reflective paint in big letters "Look at me!" on ever panel?

>>28554471
That's why I always laugh at idiots who buy old(er) Mercedes/BMWs. Yes, it's true that these cars are much cheaper now, but the maintenance costs are enormous

>>28552470 (OP)
Mercedes have been doing these massive light up grilles for a long time, called Mercedes-Benz Illuminated Star. They even sold official retrofit kits.

>The Mercedes-Benz illuminated star doesn’t not come standard on Mercedes-Benz vehicles, but it is an available accessory that you can easily get installed. It is also available in on some models when you opt for the Sport Package. This package gives you the option of an illuminated star on the front grille. It can also be added as a stand-alone option and can be installed on any Mercedes-Benz vehicle that was produced after 2013, unless the model is equipped with DISTRONIC® or DISTRONIC PLUS® driver assistance. This is because the front grille space is needed for the system’s cameras and radars.

>>28554481
i wonder how much of that is wrenchlet tax versus parts cost

>>28552470 (OP)
>yeah one of my pixels is out
>$4k

Zero chance a man came up with putting this on the front of a car

>>28554539
At least in my cunt there definitely are Merc owners who gladly pay dealer shop prices just so they can tell everyone how expensive their car is to own.

>>28554481
Like most things, it depends. Older Mercedes are generally more pricey to keep going than BMWs in my experience. Dealer prices can be beyond insane too, I've bought parts directly for pretty much nothing and then the labor quote is something like $150/hour, so I usually just take the part and do it myself (or get an indie shop to do it if its something I don't have the tools for)..

>>28552985
Is this from a Crown Victoria? Looks familiar as hell.

>>28552470 (OP)
>buy a 120hz Mercedes
>get a dead pixel
woooooow

>Buy EV
>Park EV
>Exit vehicle
>Engage Marketing Mode with your fob
>The grill starts displaying an add for the new C Class
>$.05 has been deposited towards your Mercedes oil change credit
This is the future. It is grim.

>>28555657
late 90s cadillacs
Ford and Pontiacs had their own digital dashes as well

>>28552470 (OP)
nigger mobile

>>28555810
>late 90s cadillacs
That's right. My father had one for a bit which is why it seemed so familiar to me.

>>28552900
That is a man made horror beyond my comprehension.

>>28552470 (OP)
Can I program it?
>immediately a LED swastika grill

>>28552982
VFDs are always cool. it's current LED screens that are mega gay

>>28552885
they wouldn't have tight margins if they made shit that lasted to begin with

>>28552470 (OP)
Looks good t bh

>>28556193
>they wouldn't have tight margins if they made shit way more expensive

>>28552470 (OP)
Why does it look like a chintzier version of a 10 year old Ford?

>>28552769
Anything can run doom

>>28556181
Why do older back lit displays like the s2k cluster look more futuristic than the real future we're currently living in? Touch screens are so corny. Losing out to literal light brights.

>>28556575
most of the 'futuristic sci fi screens" in moves were basically inspired by VFD style, it wasnt until the last 15 years thanks to the iphone that screens now are just a big graphical eyesore with no hierarchy or thought

>>28556581
>pic
Those a 7/14-segment LEDs, anon. It's not something futuristic, it's literally one of the cheapest ways to show alphanumerics, both electronics manufacturers and DIYers were using them a lot.

>>28556620
But it LOOKs futuristic.

>>28556626
Idk I had been messing with them for too long I guess.
The shot from the movie looks like something an enthusiast would assemble (and it was exactly that in the movie) except the labels.

idk man this shit still looks futuristic to me and its 35 years old

>>28554566
Most of it is because Merc keeps EOLing spare parts for their otherwise near-indestructible pre-1993 vehicles while you can pretty much build a BMW 2002 from OEM spares.

>>28556575
probably doesn't help that LEDs are ass to use in bright sunlight which is where you're gonna be using a car often. VFDs seem to just stay visible no matter how bright it is outside

>>28556955
>LEDs
fuck i mean LCDs

>>28556575
Because it's what we the future portrayed as in media, where displays meant to display information were functional and easy to read.
Instead what we got was bauhaus mac-os tachometers.

>>28552470 (OP)
>get in minor fender bender
>$30k repair bill minimum

>>28556958
Both are desu.

>>28557807
>chinese company has stopped manufacturing the panels.
>Car totaled after some diodes burn out.
I've already started seeing Mercs with burnt out sections of the tripoint star in Detroit.

>>28552900
that escaladed quickly

>>28556849
A genius admires simplicity.

>>28552847
the integra interior is a little better since it gets rid of the fake vents

>>28552473
Regulations about blinking/flashing lights while driving probably prevents that.

>>28558593
They didn't prevent "running" blinkers

>>28560597
this but unironically
>pic unrelated

>>28552470 (OP)
It's been dead for a while now. The only "design" automotive is doing is figuring out where to put more tech or flashy lights on the car

>>28552830
>mirage
That's probably not the best example of rice, that's actually designed to improve fuel economy. Those weird bumps are designed to specifically induce vortices since the rear area is relatively slab sided.