Compare the2025 BMW i7VS 2024 Mercedes EQS

Both the i7 and EQS have child safety locks to prevent children from opening the rear doors. The i7 has power child safety locks, allowing the driver to activate and deactivate them from the driver's seat and to know when they're engaged. The EQS’ child locks have to be individually engaged at each rear door with a manual switch. The driver can’t know the status of the locks without opening the doors and checking them.

In the past twenty years hundreds of infants and young children have died after being left in vehicles, usually by accident. When turning the vehicle off, drivers of the i7 are reminded to check the back seat if they opened the rear door before starting out. The EQS doesn’t offer a back seat reminder.

Both the i7 and the EQS have standard driver and passenger frontal airbags, front side-impact airbags, driver and front passenger knee airbags, side-impact head airbags, front seatbelt pretensioners, four-wheel antilock brakes, traction control, electronic stability systems to prevent skidding, crash mitigating brakes, post-collision automatic braking systems, daytime running lights, lane departure warning systems, blind spot warning systems, rearview cameras, rear cross-path warning, driver alert monitors and available around view monitors.

The i7’s corrosion warranty is 7 years longer than the EQS’ (12 vs. 5 years).

BMW pays for scheduled maintenance on the i7 for 3 years and 36,000 miles. BMW will pay for tire rotations, cabin filter replacement, brake fluid replacement, inspections, and any other required maintenance. Mercedes doesn’t pay scheduled maintenance for the EQS.

J.D. Power and Associates’ 2024 survey of the owners of three-year-old vehicles provides the long-term dependability statistics that show that BMW vehicles are more reliable than Mercedes With 28 fewer problems per 100 vehicles in the first three years of ownership, J.D. Power ranks BMW higher than Mercedes.

From surveys of all its subscribers, Consumer Reports’ January 2024 Auto Issue reports that BMW vehicles are more reliable than Mercedes vehicles. Consumer Reports ranks BMW 20 places higher in reliability than Mercedes.

The i7 has more powerful engines than the EQS:

As tested in Car and Driver the i7 xDrive60 electric motors is faster than the EQS 450+ electric motor:

On the EPA test cycle the i7 gets better mileage than the EQS:

The i7 can travel longer on a full charge than the EQS on a full charge:

The i7 stops much shorter than the EQS:

The i7 offers active sway bars, which help keep it flat and controlled during cornering, but disconnect at lower speeds to smooth the ride and offer greater off-road suspension articulation. This helps keep the tires glued to the road on-road and off. The EQS doesn’t offer an active sway bar system.

The i7 offers an available adjustable active suspension system, which counteracts cornering forces actively, limiting body roll and improving handling and stability. Mercedes doesn’t offer an active suspension on the EQS.

The i7 xDrive60 handles at .95 G’s, while the EQS 580 4MATIC pulls only .88 G’s of cornering force in a Motor Trend skidpad test.

The i7 xDrive60 executes Motor Trend’s “Figure Eight” maneuver quicker than the EQS 580 4MATIC (24.5 seconds @ .78 average G’s vs. 25.2 seconds @ .76 average G’s).

As tested by Car and Driver, the interior of the i7 xDrive60 is quieter than the EQS 580 4MATIC:

The i7 has 9 cubic feet more passenger volume than the EQS (112 vs. 103).

The i7 has 1.5 inches more front shoulder room, .6 inches more rear headroom and 2.4 inches more rear legroom than the EQS.

With its sedan body style and remote trunk release lockout, the i7 offers cargo security. The EQS’ hatchback body style and non-lockable folding seat defeat cargo security.

The i7 has a standard heated steering wheel to take the chill out of steering on extremely cold winter days before the car heater warms up. A heated steering wheel costs extra on the EQS.

The BMW i7 outsold the Mercedes EQS by 62% during 2023.