Category: Compact Executive 
Price Range: £19,672 to £52,567
Agile handling, driving position, quietness at speed, clever electronic controls and features, indicator repeaters built into door mirrors, big glovebox
Foot-operated parking brake, cheap, hard plastics in facia, hard ride on optional low-profile tyres, baffling array of buttons
The C-Class is a (relatively) affordable way into Mercedes ownership without compromising on the key Mercedes qualities and characteristics.
Regardless of size, driver and passengers alike will feel perfectly at ease in the C-Class, because of its excellent front seats. There's no knee-crushing in the rear, either, which should keep grandma happy. On the move, it's best to stick with standard wheels for comfort, because the optional low-profile alloys can thump over surface imperfections, rattling Grandma's dentures clean out. Nasty. Unlike the previous C-Class, this version offers quite a lot of room in the rear seats. There was never much wrong with accommodation in the front, and that's still true, thanks to comfy, multi-adjustable chairs. A large glovebox is a welcome and rare commodity since the advent of passenger airbags, but the optional CD changer can rob much of that space. A radio/cassette player is standard on the base Classic model, but can be replaced by a CD player at no charge. Then there's a plethora of other options, including a CD multi-changer in the glovebox and even voice control of the sound system.
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wrote on 14 11 2006