The best family car money can buy?

We’ve driven the classy new Mercedes-Benz E-Class Estate, and it may even replace your seven-seat SUV, writes Shane O’Donoghue

The new Mercedes E-Class Estate: few buyers seem to be aware that it can be ordered with an additional two seats
Mercedess highly distinctive curvy dashboard has four centrally-mounted air vents

As motoring journalists, we get asked a lot of questions about cars by members of the public, friends and extended family. Along with the impossible to answer “what’s your favourite car?” the most common these days is “which car can I get three child seats into?”

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