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bring her in the body styling straight out of the jet age and supreme levels of comfort you don't mind losing a couple doors for the mercedes-benz s-class coupe this is the mercedes-benz this is the mercedes-benz S five to do this here ah now this is much better this is the 2015 mercedes-benz s550 coupe I really love the styling of this car it's just really beautiful from the outside of course this being the Rossetti's benz coupe version of the s550 it only has two doors and the rear seat isn't nearly as comfortable as the front here if you want rear seat comfort you need the sedan the dashboard here is also really beautiful it's got this really simple and spare styling leather across here too big LCDs here for most of the car control functions here mercedes-benz doesn't really do too much with this instrument cluster LCD like it doesn't change color when you go into sport mode but one thing it does it's really cool is it shows night vision so if I push this button here it's dark outside this will actually show me a infrared vision of the road ahead now of course this is my main screen here and it is huge this is for the infotainment functions I control the content on here with this dial and buttons down here now this is pretty typical mercedes-benz stuff we see this in a lot of cars this is the latest generation of what they call their command interface so if I push up I get this upper ribbon that shows me the main functions navigation radio media telephone they've actually added internet to telephone as well and then vehicle settings if I push down then I get specific things along a lower ribbon for whatever function is up but I have noticed this can be a little bit slow especially the PIO eye searches first off I have to enter everything letter by letter and this does not have the finger tracing recognition that BMW and Audi both have so to enter letters I actually have to turn this dial along the strip it's like using an old rotary dial telephone really slow and every time I try to access one of the internet functions in this car one of its apps the dashboard it takes forever I get this establishing internet connection screen coming up it just takes such a long time it's really just not worth using this function in the car for other audio sources I have the typical ones for a high-end car I've got an onboard hard drive here I've got T USB ports in the console I've got HD radio satellite radio and I've also got bluetooth streaming audio what I don't get is any way to search the music library on my phone I actually have to go to my phone to bring up music and that's a little bit behind the times look behind some of the other luxury carmakers as for the audio system that's one of the fantastic points about this car standard you get a brewmaster audio system with 13 speakers that should sound really good but in this car I've actually got the Burmester 3d surround sound system I didn't even really know what 3d sound means but this has 24 speakers 1540 watts of amplification and the fidelity is just amazing it's just beautiful one of the key things that makes the mercedes-benz s550 coupe comfortable is the air suspension a really smooth ride and it just adds so much to the comfort level especially with the soundproofing in the cabin with his aromatic suspension though I can just push a button on the console here and take it from comfort mode to sport mode sport mode makes the throb a little more sensitive adds a little more pepper to it and with its standard 4matic all-wheel drive suspension it handles pretty well under the hood I've got a 4.7 liter v8 twin turbos one on each bank of cylinders that's good for 449 horsepower 516 pound-feet of torque one thing mercedes-benz does really well lately is driver-assistance features and we got all of them on this car this should be able to drive almost autonomously in stop-and-go traffic and really free you up I've tested a little bit and it seems to work pretty well but not fully autonomous yet base-price hundred and nineteen thousand nine hundred dollars there's a Premium Package for $3500 then there's the audio system in the Burmester premium 3d surround sound system that'll run you sixty four hundred dollars the package that really sounds like a bargain after those prices is the driver assistance package that's only $2,800 add those together you come to about a hundred and fifty four thousand total with destination and of course all our things like navigation and all that that comes standard as it should in a car at this level it's a pretty big price to pay but this is a really unique looking car and it is just uniquely comfortable and its general capabilities as an all-around car it does everything so well you