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Car and Driving’s Independent Used Review of the Mercedes-Benz EQC (2019 - 2024)

By Jonathan Crouch
Added 14^th March, 2025

The EQC might not have been as boldly innovative as, say, a Jaguar I-PACE or a Tesla Model X, but in some ways, it was a more appealing package. After all, it offered a nicer cabin than the Jag and better build quality than was found in the Tesla. And both of the other two key contenders in this segment from this period (the BMW iX3 and the Audi e-tron) offered a shorter potential operating range. So the EQC looks like a very complete package for the used market. It doesn’t have the handling prowess of an I-PACE or the streetside wow factor of a Model X but you might think this Merc to be an arguably more complete product than both these two rivals. And we prefer it over all its competitors from this time when it comes to issues like refinement, media connectivity and drive technology. Are there issues? Well the looks are a bit derivative. And the decision to stick with an older-tech weightier chassis for this car is the major contributory factor to the way that it trails both the I-PACE and the Model X in terms of overall operating range. Might you forgive the EQC these failings and choose it as an alternative not only to its EV rivals but also to that combustion-engined used large luxury SUV you’d probably otherwise have been considering? We can see why you would be tempted to.

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