First Drive: 2011 Mercedes-Benz E-Class. Whether the top is up or down, the interior is a fine place to be. Truth be told, we didn't notice a great deal of improvement when the rather gawky looking Aircap winglet was deployed during open air motoring. Don't worry, you can't see it from the inside, but even so, there's not a drafty perch in the well-furnished house. Mercedes-Benz E-Class. Better still, gone are the days when a studied eye could find evidence of Benz beancounter cost-cutting in the cabin, and even the base model gets the aforementioned Aircap, along with dual-zone HVAC controls, leather and walnut trim. Mercedes-Benz E-Class.At our first opportunity, we absconded with a top-rung V8-powered E500 Cabriolet (to be badged E550 when it comes to the States in May) and went hunting for entertaining coastal winding roads – tarmac that was in abundant supply thanks to Majorca's tidy dimensions and thin off-season traffic.
While we couldn't access some of the area's most celebrated roads (Xynthia, the very windstorm that nearly scuttled our man Harley's Jaguar XJ drive in Paris had caused rockslides and downed trees that made obstructed key passage points), very few of the Spanish island's surface roads we encountered ran straight for longer than the length of an olive grove, and some of the more mountainous stretches we traversed had the sort of blind zig-zags that have locals honking their horns to announce their presence before rounding a bend.When you own a vehicle, you always want it to be at its best. And that takes more than just oil changes and the occasional car wash.
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