Check Out The 64-Colour Ambient-Lit Interior Of The New Mercedes A-Class
Mercedes has released a set of pictures showing the interior of the new A-Class, and it’s what my wife would call jazzy.
Lovers of ambient lighting and shiny things will be all over the options list, by the looks of things. Strips of lighting run the full width of the dashboard, along the door trims and beneath the centre console.
These strips can display up to 64 colours and project 10 mood programmes. We wonder if there’s one for ‘WTF.’ There are even colour-illuminated rings on the air vents, which themselves resemble concept car alloy wheels. It’s all quite intricate and designed to give a, err, more emotional feel. Interpret that how you will.
The trademark Mercedes door-mounted electric seat controls remain. The rest of the switchgear looks to be borrowed from existing models, too, and there’s plenty of leather and contrast stitching to indulge in.
The once-divisive, now-commonplace tablet-style screen is much bigger than before. The two 10.25-inch-wide screens you can see in the pics will be standard on high-end models, with twin 7.0-inch screens the base offering and a halfway house featuring a smaller and a larger one together.
We also now know that the new car’s boot has been boosted to 370 litres, which is definitely less rubbish than before and is helped massively by a redesign of the rear lights, widening the previously size zero loading aperture by 20cm. There’s better visibility thanks to slimmer pillars all round.
The A-Class sold about 40,000 units in the UK last year, making it the firm’s best performer in this country. It’s hoped that a vast array of aesthetics-based options and desirable upper-model trinkets will help drive profitability.
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So when will Mercedes realise that simply tacking on screens to the dashboard doesn’t look that good?
Well Tesla ‘get away with it’
Will it have a rainbow mode for when you’re driving on Rainbow Road?
Tesla Intensifies
Images probably show $100,000 worth of options, so every A-Class you’ll ever see on the road will still only have a black interior…
There’s bound to be someone who invents “disco mode” for this and sell it to the Fast AND furious franchise
Not my kind of style. Simply useless in a car. Car does not have to look like some night club. But we’re not the same so someone will buy it because of that.
I remember the Series 7 (i think) has a orange light in a line running across the dashboard. It doesn’t serve any function but it looks cool as hells, especially at night
Mercedes is taking the concept of RGB lighting to a different level.
A true RGBeast that is
You could say the interior is LIT
I know why you wonder if there is a WTF mood for ambient lighting…
Let’s not forget that Mustangs had this first.
Backlit gauges aren’t anything to brag about.
Wow now Mercedes is supporting ricers
The S class had this for years…