The Mercedes-Benz E-Class Estate is a brilliant car. Comfortable, upmarket and hugely practical, I rate it as one of the best estate cars money can buy. However, when you buy a used premium vehicle, you should never lose sight of the fact that all of its maintenance, servicing and repair costs will be reflective of its price in 2015 and not 2022.

It's impossible to say if you will have many years of trouble-free motoring, but it would be wise to have money set aside for those big servicing jobs. Otherwise, if you cut corners on essential maintenance, you will essentially create costly problems further down the road.

As long as you bake in the higher costs into your annual maintenance budget, there is no reason why this car shouldn't give you many years of happy motoring.