{"id":1887998,"date":"2026-04-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1887998"},"modified":"2026-04-17T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T21:00:00","slug":"surprise-surprise-the-new-mercedes-c-class-is-getting-a-ginormous-screen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1887998","title":{"rendered":"Surprise, surprise: the new Mercedes C-Class is getting a ginormous screen"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Anyone else get told as a kid that if they sat too close to the TV screen, they\u2019d get square eyes? Well, perhaps that wasn\u2019t a common saying in Germany, because Mercedes continues to go all-in on monstrous infotainment screens.<\/p>\n

What you\u2019re looking at above is the interior of the upcoming new C-Class. Yep, Merc\u2019s heartland car is getting the pillar-to-pillar MBUX Hyperscreen as an option. Yeesh.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cYou need big screens,\u201d former Merc design boss Gorden Wagener told TG last year as he slated Audi\u2019s minimalist Concept C interior<\/a>. But yeah, this is a really<\/em> big screen. Merc says in the new, electric C-Class it features \u201cinnovative matrix backlight technology with almost ten million pixels and independently adjustable brightness zones\u201d. Of course it does.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re also told a \u201clarge trim element dynamically connects the centre console and the instrument panel into one harmonious composition\u201d, but really the cockpit is all about the digital displays. Heck, even the panoramic roof now has 162 illuminated stars built in.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Apparently there\u2019s also more interior space than in any previous C-Class though, and the new \u2018high-end seats\u2019 feature heating, ventilation, a massage function across the whole of the backrest and 4D sound. Pretty cool.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s also leather trim as standard, plus fancier Nappa leather if you spec the sports seats. Or, for those not wanting any cowhide, much like in the new GLC<\/a> there\u2019s also the option of a vegan interior that\u2019s certified by The Vegan Society. \u2018Deep black\u2019, \u2018warm beech brown\u2019 and \u2018stylish ivory beige\u2019 are your colour options for inside, and as ever you can have extra wood or carbon trim depending on the spec. There\u2019s also the option of a Burmester surround sound stereo.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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What do you think to the sheer volume of screen in a C-Class, readers?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Anyone else get told as a kid that if they sat too close to the TV screen, they\u2019d get square eyes? Well, perhaps that wasn\u2019t a common saying in Germany, because Mercedes continues to go all-in on monstrous infotainment screens. What you\u2019re looking at above is the interior of the upcoming new C-Class. Yep, Merc\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[226,237],"class_list":["post-1887998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-crawlmanager","tag-topgear-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1887998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1887998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1887998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1887998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1887998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1887998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}