Mercedes-Benz E-Class first drive - Introduction

Price: £28,863-£47,010
On sale: June
You'll like: A Benz through and through
You won't: Too conservative for some?

Welcome home. Mercedes uses just two words to sum up the new E-Class saloon, and they tell you a great deal about the car.

It may be bristling with ideas to improve comfort and safety, while lowering fuel consumption and emissions, but at first glance everything seems reassuringly familiar. Well, you didn't really expect Mercedes to play fast and loose with its biggest money-spinner, did you?