Website v2, tonight

Where it stands (final for this run)

• 32 of 32 automated checks pass on the hidden theme: iPhone, desktop, reduced motion, Mercedes Week takeover, collection, product.
• Storyboard homepage: garage hero with camera move, screen powers on, G-Class assembles, 3D makes ring. Lighter version for low-power phones; with reduced motion nothing is pinned or hidden.
• Hero headline has a black outline and soft shadow. On an iPhone 14 the headline and the plate checker both fit the first screen.
• Ten new car renders plus the Mercedes media, also used as banners on the make collections. Cost about £0.93. Checked up close; one small garbled lettering on the Audi was softened.
• Product cards are square tiles. Most products still show the old white images until RUN I2 finishes replacing them; the new dark images fill the tile edge to edge.
• Mercedes Week page, announcement bar and homepage takeover are byte-for-byte the live files. Homepage lands on Mercedes Week, button opens the full site.
• Speed: target not met. The hero paints in under a second in real loads, but Lighthouse's slow-phone simulation scores home 68 to 77 and product about 70 (target 90). What holds it back is outside this redesign: the very large menu markup and the app scripts (chat, analytics, Instagram feed, Shop). Blocking those scripts gives 80. Your call on which to keep.
• Plate checker still says "not connected yet" until its Worker is deployed (plate-checker\DEPLOY.cmd), so its results cards could not be shown with real products.
• After Mercedes Week ends (6pm 19 Nov), the takeover and the Mercedes announcement need removing from the header.