Luxury car Mercedes-Benz 5320 CDI List price ￡55,022 Target Price ￡52,448

摘要

Luxury cars don't have to be overpriced polluters, as the Mercedes S320 CDI proves here. This is not a good time to be selling luxury cars. With a weak dollar, sky-high oil prices and green fingers wagging in the direction of anyone driving a car that's seen to be profligate and dirty, even the super-rich are having second thoughts about whether they should be quite so conspicuous. Well, some of them are, anyway. This is where the S320 CDI wins hands down. It's everything a luxury car should be - big, roomy, comfortable, technologically advanced and rich in quality and refinement - but it doesn't stick two fingers up at anyone with environmental concerns or those who are tightening their purse strings. On a run you'll get comfortably more than 30 miles out of every gallon of diesel and CO2 emissions are a reasonable 220g/km. For owners, that means less frequent fuel stops, reduced day-to-day running costs and some not inconsiderable taxation savings if you've chosen it instead of a comparable petrol-engined car.