Mercedes v5 live candidate

The new website (v2) with Mercedes Week v5 and the new Mercedes media, and the full motion on phones. Recorded with iPhone 15 Pro emulation.

Not live yet. One click needed from you.

Your store is at Shopify’s limit of 20 themes, so I could not make the candidate copy, and I am not allowed to delete themes. In Shopify admin go to Online Store, Themes, and delete one old unused theme (for example one of the three called “Updated copy of Updated copy of Alpha”). Then tell me “upload A6”: it takes about ten minutes, then you press Publish. Until then, everything on this page is the real live site with the new files swapped in on this PC, so it shows what the theme will do.

iPhone scroll recordings

Scrolled with real finger drags, top to bottom.

Mercedes Week v5 with the new media

Homepage, full site

Collection page

Product page

Checks

Check	Result	Detail
Every model in the picker shows its own kits	Pass	22 models, 52 kit links, none in the wrong model
Homepage still lands on Mercedes Week	Pass	iPhone and desktop
"Browse the full VEEHIVE website" button works	Pass	opens the full homepage and stays there
Price counters land on the real prices	Pass	AMG GT 450 fitted (was 650) and 50 off
Reduced motion shows the final prices straight away	Pass	nothing pinned, nothing moving
Header, menu, announcement bar unchanged	Pass	the live v2 files, untouched
No console errors from the page (iPhone)	Pass	Mercedes Week, homepage, collection, product
Phone gets the full storyboard	Pass	pinned scenes, 3D camera, parallax, ring, reveals
Weak phone (2 cores) gets the simple version	Pass	only under 4 cores, under 4GB, or reduced motion
No Mercedes star added as a graphic	Pass	the only stars are on the car in the photos

Smoothness (frame times)

Frames per second while scrolling, measured back to back against the site that is live now. A long jank would show as frames over 100ms.

Page	iPhone, finger drags	iPhone, steady scroll	Desktop, steady scroll
Homepage	53 fps1 over 100ms live site now: 49 fps	59 fps0 over 100ms live site now: 60 fps	59 fps1 over 100ms live site now: 59 fps
Collection	51 fps0 over 100ms live site now: 50 fps	58 fps0 over 100ms live site now: 60 fps	58 fps0 over 100ms live site now: 57 fps
Product	49 fps0 over 100ms live site now: 50 fps	60 fps0 over 100ms live site now: 60 fps	58 fps1 over 100ms live site now: 59 fps
Mercedes Week	60 fps0 over 100ms live site now: 48 fps	60 fps0 over 100ms live site now: 59 fps	60 fps0 over 100ms live site now: 59 fps

Measured in Chrome with iPhone 15 Pro emulation on this PC, not on a real iPhone. Please scroll it on your own phone before publishing.

Phone and desktop, same scene

Left: iPhone. Right: desktop. The phone now runs the same scenes.

Homepage: garage hero

Homepage: camera moves in

Homepage: up to the logo wall

Homepage: dash screen scene

Homepage: the car builds itself

Homepage: 3D make ring

Collection: hero

Collection: products arrive

Product page: top

Product page: scrolling

Mercedes Week: hero

Mercedes Week: camera on the nose

Mercedes Week: logo wall

Mercedes Week: the price

Mercedes Week: screen on

What changed for phones

Phones are no longer treated as low power. The simple version is only for reduced motion, under 4 cores or under 4GB memory.
The dash screen loop now plays on phones (it was desktop only), and only while it is on screen.
The 3D depth follows your finger on the hero, the way it follows the mouse on desktop.
Buttons and cards press in under the finger, in place of the desktop magnetic buttons.
Every page: sections and the product buy box arrive with a 3D reveal. Collection hero drifts with scroll. Product gallery leans back as you scroll.
Mercedes Week: garage loop and front of the AMG GT in the hero, four depth layers for the parallax, the new interior with the VEEHIVE screen in the CarPlay scene.

One thing I did differently

You asked for GSAP scroll normalising on iOS. On Mercedes Week it is on. On the rest of the site I tested it and took it out: over the sideways product sliders it trapped the swipe and opened the product instead of scrolling. Those pages pin their scenes with CSS, which phones handle natively, so they do not need it.