Mercedes' performance division enters a new era of pure electrification with a 677bhp saloon - the Mercedes-AMG EQE 53. Does it live up to the credentials of the AMG nameplate?
, its standard air suspension maintains impressively good body control over everything from a gentle schlep to being thrown along a mountain road. Much of the mass is in the low-mounted battery pack, and the low centre of gravity can certainly be felt in the way the EQE 53 turns and changes direction. There is a small amount of discernible lean under harder progress, but AMG engineers say there isn’t an active anti-roll system because there's no need for one.
The EQE’s mass can be felt when asking it to turn into tighter corners, and on some of the narrower and twistier roads I drove the car on, it did start to feel big and heavy. But on wider roads, the stability control’s more permissive Sport mode gives an obvious rearward bias to the four-wheel drive system’s torque delivery and helps wake up the chassis.
So the 53 is a hugely fast and impressively composed EQE, but it's hard to nominate any qualities that make it an AMG. The most obvious of these is the one the division seems proudest of: a sound symposer system that plays a generated noise both internally and externally through speakers, the sound altering in volume and pitch according to the vehicle’s speed and the position of the accelerator. It even plays an idlelike throb when the car is stationary.
The problem for me is that it just didn’t work. As with other artificial symposers, it felt like a gimmick, obviously fake. A brain will happily accept the noise of a combustion engine, even when it has been digitally augmented and filtered. But completely artificial sound creates more of a credibility chasm than a gap, and in this instance it was turned off within minutes every time I steeled myself to give it another go.
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