Category: Exotic Sports 
Price Range: £45,950 to £74,555
Obscenely fast, grippy, fantastic to look at, plenty of safety features.
Pricey, rear space is compromised, huge running costs, poor residuals.
The standard CLS is no slouch, but this thing just raises the bar. It's a perfectly manageable high-class hot rod.
Mercedes-Benz is pulling itself up the rankings in customer satisfaction surveys and the E-Class, on which the CLS is based, scored particularly highly.
All the revised CLS versions we drove (including the AMG) felt classy, sturdy and likely to live a long and happy life, bearing out recent reliability surveys that suggest that owners are not finding any problems at all.
