Mercedes-Benz E-Class saloon: car review | Martin Love

If you are a CEO, then this executive saloon may already be on your radar. If it's not, you shouldn't be in the job

Price: 35,935
Top speed: 149mph
0-62mph: 7.2 seconds
MPG: 72.4
CO2: 102g/km

Within minutes of taking a seat for my first lecture at university I realised, with a sickening lurch, I was doing totally the wrong course for my meagre talents. I'd signed up to do business studies, yet I'm so entrepreneurially challenged I couldn't sell loo paper to bears in the wood. I managed to swap courses and so escaped a lucrative future running a high-flying company.