Mercedes Cuts EQ Prices Ahead of U.S. Production Pause

The aesthetics are pathetic but there's a much larger issue in play. Hoovie bought one of these and pointed out:

1. The interior materials are chintzy.
2. They didn't even paint the inside of the hood.
3. The "upgraded" wheel covers are made of plastic.
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5. Bean-count the $100K "flagship"? This is straight out of the RenCen playbook.... but its Mercedes.

For what it's worth, I've sat in an EQS, and did not feel the interior materials were chintzy at all.

Have wheel covers ever not been made of plastic?

Wheel covers used by EvilGM and Ford were some kind of pot metal when those were en vogue in the 1980s. No Mercedes stateside should be using a cheap wheel cover, its the height of "we have completely failed". Hoovie made some comment about the wheels being the "upgraded wheels" and seemed surprised when he was told they were plastic wheel covers on other wheels.

Both the factory wheel covers and the second factory set (a different look) on my 1987 Taurus were plastic. I think you have to go back to the malaise era to find metal "hubcaps."

Wheel covers are very common on EVs from all makers because wheel aerodynamics make a huge difference in range, and making wheels themselves with that level of coverage would make them very heavy. Every one I've been exposed to is plastic.

Couldn't they use a carbon polymer at least when it comes to stuff that is over $70k?

Another name for "carbon polymers" is "plastic."

In the video it appears the wheels underneath are aluminum or some other alloy, so instead of having two wheel designs for the model they apparently have one and put plastic covers over them for the "upgraded" wheels? AMG has always had its own wheels, but the EQ flagship north of 100K gets hub caps? Reeks of asshattery and L-A-Z-Y on the part of a so called luxury marque.