It's sleek, stylish and stands out from the crowd – but is the 2017 Mercedes-Benz E400 4Matic Coupe more than just a cruiser?

I don’t know whether having your mum and dad pine over a car makes it more desirable or not. My initial thought would be no, unless you’ve got particularly groovy parents. But that’s exactly what happened when I rolled up in the 2017 Mercedes-Benz E400 Coupe.

It’s easy to see why they would – this thing is stunning to look at. It appears, at least on face value, to be a luxury sports cruiser, the type of car that would look right at home parked out the front of the Radisson Plaza as it would in front of the holiday house down the coast.

You’d want to be readily able to afford those sorts of indulgences to get into this range-topping E-Class Coupe from Mercedes-Benz, the E400 4Matic, which is priced at $145,900 plus on-road costs. And that’s the price of the one you see here, which, refreshingly for a premium maker, had no options fitted at all. And, to my eye at least, it looks that sum of money every day of the week, both inside and out.

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