The S Class interior looks gaudy, over-the-top, and old-fashioned to me — something from a bygone era:

http://www.arodmercedesbenz.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/S...

But I say this as a millennial with an engineering degree, so I don't really know if the marketers particularly care about my opinion on what is stylish or not.

Another millennial here. Your S Class interior image looks great to me. I'd go black over brown but still looks great. I just looked at some pictures of the Tesla and my god that looks awful inside. The inside of a luxury car should be a lot nicer than that. Also why the giant screen? Knobs and buttons make so much more sense - they're easier to use without looking while driving. I've also heard various stories about people rebooting their cars essentially because everything is baked into that screen. It just seems like a downside to me in every way.

You picked like the most old-fashioned style you could.

http://automiddleeast.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/AMG-spo...

I'm 25 and I would pick this over plastic and poor leather in tesla any day.

Go sit in both, they're not even close. I'm a millennial too, but that has nothing to do with being able to appreciate a luxury car interior. FWIW neither the S Class or Model S appeal to me because I like going to the mountains and drive on sketchy forest roads.

> The Model S has the S Class beat in acceleration if you drop the extra $10k for ludicrous mode, but the S Class interior is worlds better. Not even in the same league.

You don't need to pay anything extra to beat an s-class, based on their website. The slowest Tesla, the station wagon/suv x version on the slowest/lowest end battery (75kwh) was 0 to 60 in 6.0 seconds, beating all model s's-class mercedes. This was the easiest comparison site I could find, the various models of both cars makes it a little hard to pick one spec model to compare. Never the less, the low end tesla suv beat all s class.

http://www.zeroto60times.com/vehicle-make/mercedes-0-60-mph-...

http://www.zeroto60times.com/vehicle-make/tesla-0-60-mph-tim...

The s class interior is nice. My dad has one, so many buttons, but it's smooth, etc. Soon, Mercedes will start advertising that the new s class is not like your dad's oldsmobile, i mean mercedes.

You dont need to pay for Ludicrous mode for the Tesla to be quicker than the Merc. I think a vanilla 90D (without the P) is sufficient.