Mercedes S-CLASS Car Review

Mercedes S-CLASS CAR REVIEW BY TED MACAULEY

If you like your cars technically loaded as well as being enjoyable to drive I have the perfect solution for you. It comes in the rather handsome shape of the Mercedes S-class. Not cheap to my mind, but value for your hard-earned... A unique breakthrough are cameras in the ceiling which watch the occupants in their oh-so-comfy seats....it allows a vital interior helpmate to keep an eye on you the driver and read your mind. Here’s an example. Turn your head around from the passenger seat and the car automatically, almost magically, lowers the rearview sun-blind just in case you are in danger of being dazzled. Then reach across the dashboard after dark and inner cabin lights illuminate and pinpoint just where you are looking. Amazing! But as well as noting how often you wink at the stunning lady in the next car at the traffic lights the screen offers some 50 electrical systems that download updates and switch on the headlights. And it does not stop there. The optional rear wheel steering device comes into play at the merest touch of a button. Even the long wheelbase S-Class’s turning circle is shrunk by an impressive 1.9metres giving the driver the help to do the business and turn right around in just 10.9metres. Even a Mini takes about 11 metres to perform the same task... Just like the Audi A8 the S-Class has an air suspension set-up that almost straight away raises the car’s ride height if a side impact it detected directing the forces through the sturdier sill instead of walloping the doors. Then back seat passengers may rest assured they will benefit from the appearance of their own airbag. Even with all these values, life and injury saving, the S-Class will enjoy more in the second half of this year... like being able to progress in automated mode up to nearly 40mph when the traffic is irritatingly nose-totail or there are maddening motorway tail-backs. It all goes from the sublime to the sublime in the luxury car class. Prices? For the 3.0d S350d £75,285.It goes

from 0-62mph in 6.8 secs with a fuel return of 50.4 and a top speed of 155 from its 282 BHP engine. The 429 BHP 3.OT S500L will cost you £87,180. Top speed 155mp with a return of 40.9 mpg.

Worth thinking about? In my humble opinion...YES!