The highly exhaustive and not to mention expensive mid-cycle facelift that Mercedes-Benz operated on the E-Class W212 found its way on every model of the four model lineup, including the S212 station wagon.
The peeps from the Dutch Auto Blog recently had a Mercedes-Benz E 300 BlueTec Hybrid Estate on their hands and made one of their usual rather “serious sprinkled with funny bits” reviews.
Seen by many - including official statistics - as the official taxi cab of Germany, the Mercedes-Benz E-Class doesn't try very hard to lose this image in the eyes of Europeans, and we sincerely see nothing wrong with that.
Sure, it might take a while until we see a V8 taxi in Europe, since economical four-cylinder diesels are usually the norm in German taxis.
Coincidentally, the E 300 BlueTec Hybrid also has an economical four-cylinder diesel engine, only that it's made even more economical by pairing it with a 27 hp electric engine, which in turn is connected to a few batteries.
Even if you're like us and Dutch sounds like a language from out of space, the following video has English translation captions so it's all good, don't worry.
Alex handled his first real steering wheel at the age of five (on a field) and started practicing "Scandinavian Flicks" at 14 (on non-public gravel roads). Following his time at the University of Journalism, he landed his first real job at the local franchise of Top Gear magazine a few years before Mircea (Panait). Not long after, Alex entered the New Media realm with the autoevolution.com project. Full profile
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