Back seat driver: Mercedes Benz C class

Welcome to a new column for MSCG. This column explores what its like to sit in the back seat of cars from a completely novice perspective. No in depth detail will be used, and articles are likely to be very short.

Today we'll be taking a ride to work in the Mercedes Benz C 240. The car provided was with all the extras, and in a sleek black colour.

To start with, the car from the outside looks like the batmobile on steroids. Large, unblinking headlights stare down on you from the front, and the tinted windows give it a mysteriousness hard to achieve normally. The rounded edges give it an elegant yet sophisticated texture, but this, including the large dimensions of the car make it viable to actually become something like the bat mobile, and the black coloured car we had helped the situation a little more.

The interior is nice. Smooth leather covers just about everything, and everything else appears to be some sort of wooded substance. However, unlike the bat mobile, it doesn't seem to have a jet engine attached to the back nor any wings with which to look like a bat.

Petrol consumption is also a factor. Such a large car requires a lot of oomph to move it, and thus the amount of petrol required is astronomical, somewhat similar to a tank. For your average mercedes driver, this probably won't be a problem since they'll have wads of cash or an unlimited credit card with which to pay.

The car also seems to handle like a tank, attached to the road by weight. You'll be sure you won't flip in this monster.

Overall, a very nice car if you want to plough through traffic in style.

8/10.