AS GOOD AS NEW
MERCEDES E-CLASS COUPE
Suave outside, classy inside and great to drive, especially with a six. Mark Pearson reports
Fancy a smart, fourseat two-door with a premium badge? Cop a load of the classy Mercedes-Benz E-Class Coupé, then, a car so handsome that if it were a person, it could audition for BTS.
Underneath the make-up, it’s pure E-Class and none the worse for it.
There’s a good range of variants to seek out. The base petrol is the 242bhp four-pot E300. Then there’s the E400 (upgraded in 2020 to the 362bhp E450), which has a twinturbocharged V6 and four-wheel drive as standard. The diesel range starts with the 191bhp E220d, moves up to the 241bhp E300d, the 254bhp E350d (with a V6 and 4Matic) and ends with the 335bhp E400d.
There’s also the hot E53 from AMG. It has a twinturbocharged 3.0-litre petrol straight six that makes a mighty 429bhp and gets Mercedes’ EQ Boost mild-hybrid system, which uses a 48V electric motor to add a further 22bhp and improve fuel efficiency.