It's all about calming the mood.

The coming W223 S-Class is one of the most keenly anticipated new Mercedes-Benz products in a very long time.

For decades, the S-Class has been a veritable portal into the future of Mercedes-Benz’s broader passenger vehicle technology. The German luxury car brand has always shown its best and most wonderous technology on S-Class, before allowing some features to trickle down to lesser model ranges.

Mercedes-Benz has now revealed more of the new S-Class cabin architecture and digitisation, which appear to be deeply impressive. Balancing the need for stately elegance and luxury, with vanguard technology features, the W223 interior is less analogue without being gimmicky.

Ergonomic digitisation is a major theme inside the new Mercedes-Benz limousine, with 27 fewer conventional controls – replaces by digital haptics.

Volvo’s intuition with the vertically orientated touchscreen infotainment package has been proven correct, after the Swedish company defied convention with this design, debuting on the XC90. Mercedes-Benz has now followed, with the S-Class cabin dominated by its huge portrait view central infotainment touchscreen.

Mood and comfort systems are also improved, with adaptive ambient lighting being a significant contributor. The S-Class cabin illumination is now ten times brighter than before, making it clearly effective, even in bright daylight. Powering this new cabin lighting system are 250 fibre optic LEDs.

To best insulate occupants from the bothersome changes in environment quality outside the S-Class, there is a robust air-filtering system and ionizer, which ensures that cabin air quality is always better than outside.

Mercedes-Benz has also equipped the new S-Class with a sophisticated collection of presets, which blend the ambient lighting, overall swathe of screen displays and seat massage functions, to deliver an inspiring and depressurising outcome. Customers can choose from Refresh, Vitality, Warmth, Joy and Comfort settings, in this regard.

Some classic Mercedes-Benz design details remain unchanged, such as the iconic three-piece seat adjustment function, mounted on the door. In another amazing instance of harmonized ergonomics, seat adjustments influence mirror and steering wheel position too, to make it that much easier for a driver to get comfortable – quicker.

As with any S-Class, the new car is all about overengineered detailing. So yes: even the interior door panels are now heated.

Mercedes-Benz will reveal its new S-Class in full in September 2020.

Further Reading

Mercedes-Benz Showcases New S-Class Infotainment

Mercedes-Benz teases new S-Class [Update]

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