There’s also highway-friendly goodies such as adaptive cruise control, lane-keeping assistance with active steering intervention, and blind-spot monitoring. The V-Class gets six airbags (dual front, front side and full-length curtains).
Around town the V250 is still comfortable for the most part, but the suspension â€" while generally effective at absorbing bumps â€" can be noisy, and sharp edges at low speeds can be felt in the cockpit.
The steering is light and quick to react, too, which makes for easy urban driving, and the mirrors allow you to make sure you’re not going to bash into parking pylons or the like. On the whole, though, it never feels cumbersome to drive.
While the V250Â may appeal more to fleet buyers than private shoppers, Mercedes-Benz offers a capped-price service program. Maintenance is due every 12 months or 25,000km (which will appeal to hire car drivers), and over five years the cost works out at $4980 for the Silver Service plan (not including brakes and wiper blades, but including oil, filters, spark plugs, coolant and wheel balancing/rotation). So, just like the car, keeping it on the road is an expensive exercise.
The Mercedes-Benz V250 BlueTEC Avantgarde is the best luxury people-mover you can buy right now. It is comfortable, luxurious, it feels like a Mercedes-Benz not a van, and â€" aside from the price tag â€" there’s not much to dislike about it.
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