If you need a heavy load carrying vehicle, but don’t want to sacrifice on image there really are few options on the marketplace at present. Audi’s A6 is a fine car; capable and with good value too; however, it may not have that last ounce of breeding required in this rarefied sector.
BMW’s 5-series Touring presses all the buttons and ticks all the boxes in our eyes, but its looks divide opinion, and many consumers will more likely look to its German rival, the E-class Estate reviewed here. The E-class Estate range is a diverse one, starting at as little as £29,000, rising to £66,000 for the E55 AMG, the fastest estate car in production at the time of writing.
Normally we’d be sad by the passing of an engine like AMG’s supercharged 5.5-liter V8, the über-huffer that’s powered many of our favorite Mercedes-Benzes. However, now that we’ve seen its formidable successor, AMG’s new naturally aspirated 6.2-liter V8, we’ve cancelled the wake and are planning a party instead. The new 2007 E63 sedan is the most powerful E-Class yet to blast out of Stuttgart, and it’s a delight to drive, especially when the 507 horses are fully unleashed.
The model-rich line of E-Class sedans and station wagons is not only vitally important to the financial well-being of the firm’s passenger car machine, it is the primary line for the spread of Mercedes-Benz’s core values to the mass of consumers. Over the four years of its production life, the current E-Class has brought in a million buyers worldwide, and in 2005 it accounted for fully one-fifth of all Mercedes-Benz vehicles sold.