No sadly not and I was on a promise of the AR being retro installed and in fact have never received it and never will. For whatever reason Mercedes have neglected the EQC in favour of the new top end EQE and EQS who have been prioritised for parts. plus looking at the prices there is a huge discrepancy and the EQC costs much less in comparison certainly here in France although it is still eye wateringly expensive. I was talking to my contact yesterday and the replacement for the EQC for the forseeable future is the EQE SUV. Someone posted that there were indications the EQC will cease production in May as well which will be when the EQE SUV will hopefully be on stream. Am not happy as I do not particularly want a car built in the States the ML and GLE have not always been the best for QS the ML in particular had a lot of issues.
Mercedes have said they want to go back up market and the current pricing EQ would certainly indicate that if they are not careful they will price themselves out of the market of course!
I totally get your frustration and I think Mercedes have lost a lot of customer goodwill which they may well regret at a future date. The basics of the car are great though and I would try to put the lack of some of the toys behind you and enjoy what you do have. My car has no engine cover and no AR but the other items Burmester is good but if the audio system sounds ok then do not loose sleep over it. We first went to Burmester in a c class which had a dreadful stock system but since then on test cars without burmester the stock systems have sounded quite good. You never see the lack of engine cover apart from when you top up the lave glacé so it is nothing really.
For what it is worth I wanted to go electric and the EQC was the only model available, I moved from a well specced e class estate and the EQC felt a drop down a class but now I am totally satisfied with the car even the black piano trim and am seriously wondering if I want to change before the new EQC comes out whenever that will be (probably when they finally do an EQC saloon which will not be on the same electric architecture as the e/s class. So stick with it and you may well find you are fully satisfied😉
Mercedes have said they want to go back up market and the current pricing EQ would certainly indicate that if they are not careful they will price themselves out of the market of course!
I totally get your frustration and I think Mercedes have lost a lot of customer goodwill which they may well regret at a future date. The basics of the car are great though and I would try to put the lack of some of the toys behind you and enjoy what you do have. My car has no engine cover and no AR but the other items Burmester is good but if the audio system sounds ok then do not loose sleep over it. We first went to Burmester in a c class which had a dreadful stock system but since then on test cars without burmester the stock systems have sounded quite good. You never see the lack of engine cover apart from when you top up the lave glacé so it is nothing really.
For what it is worth I wanted to go electric and the EQC was the only model available, I moved from a well specced e class estate and the EQC felt a drop down a class but now I am totally satisfied with the car even the black piano trim and am seriously wondering if I want to change before the new EQC comes out whenever that will be (probably when they finally do an EQC saloon which will not be on the same electric architecture as the e/s class. So stick with it and you may well find you are fully satisfied😉
