MOTORING
MERCEDES-BENZ
E-CLASS ESTATE I
owned an E-Class estate a few years back and really liked it. Yes it’s huge and wafts around like a stately home but then that’s
detached house bolted to the rear and drove
you were born to it. And, as l have mentioned
like a - well, a semi-detached house. Today,
before with the new premium Mercs, it is lovely
most manufacturers have estates and they
to see a real and beautifully crafted clock in the
why you buy it. My kids loved it as the rear two
really can be good looking cars but the test is
centre of the dash.
seats that made this a 7-seater, pulled up from
if they drive as if it were a saloon. This is the
the floor and faced backwards and they thought
real test.
that was hysterical. It might not of been terribly
Mercedes estates have long had a reputation for spaciousness and dependability – and with
To sit in this luxurious cabin, you are sitting
leather-lined interiors and high-tech equipment
safe in a rear shunt mind you but hysterical
in a typical beautiful, bullet proof saloon. Well
as standard, the latest E-class doesn’t sacrifice
never the less.
laid out, superbly finished and everything
luxury in the pursuit of those two traits. What’s
So it was with some anticipation that the
ergonomically designed to be at your finger
more, with a range of fuel-sipping engines
latest model pulled onto my drive and without
tips. Most of the functions are controlled by
and the option of seven seats, the E-Class
even getting inside it, l can tell you that it is a
scrolling thorough menus on a colour dash
estate has all the makings of a truly desirable
very handsome motor. Do you recall the days
mounted screen and although it takes a bit of
package.
when as estate was a saloon with a semi-
time to get used to, after a few hours it is as if
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The SE models come with a very soft