Category: Large Executive 
Price Range: £57,790 to £150,090
Plenty of kit and safety equipment, comfortable, roomy, quality cabin.
Handling a little soft, thirsty, UK will have to wait for smooth-running hybrid.
The 350 CDI is the most practical and frugal but the 600 provides the most entertaining drive.
You'd have to be pretty miserable not to be impressed with build quality on this car. The interior is the same as the pre-facelifted model and has proved bulletproof. We don't expect any problems with this version because the cabin is extremely well put together using the highest quality materials.
You are unlikely to go wrong with Mercedes-Benz cars - in the JD Power 2008 customer satisfaction survey the German brand finished 6th out of 28 in the manufacturers' league table.
