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Safety and Driver Assistance Rating:
Excellent crash-test results from NHTSA make the E-class wagon as family friendly as its body style suggests. Since IIHS has only tested a sedan variant, we are only able to award the wagon a maximum of four stars. A suite of active safety features is offered-including a semi-autonomous driving mode-but it costs a pretty pfennig.
What’s New for 2018?
IIHS has still not yet tested an E-class wagon, but NHTSA’s five-star rating from last year carries over unchanged to 2018 models. A backup camera is now standard across the range as Mercedes-Benz complies with the new safety regulation.
2017 Mercedes-Benz E-class Wagon
Crash Test Results
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and the nonprofit, independent Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) evaluate vehicles for crashworthiness in the United States. NHTSA assigns cars an overall rating out of five stars. IIHS uses a different set of tests, grades cars on a scale of Good to Poor, and awards the vehicles that perform best across its tests with Top Safety Pick or Top Safety Pick+ honors, the latter of which requires that the subject’s automated forward-collision-braking system performs well.
NHTSA reports a five-star rating for the E-class wagon, but IIHS has only tested a sedan model. The four-door E-class was awarded an IIHS Top Safety Pick+ designation for 2017 because its optional active safety technology was deemed superior by the agency.
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) Test Results
2017 Mercedes-Benz E-class wagon
Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) Test Results
Airbags, Child Seats, and Spare Tire Location
Being a family vehicle, the E-class wagon is capable of accommodating child seats in the back without compromising front-seat space. Installing a child seat requires you to first remove two plastic covers to access the LATCH anchor points. The sloping seat bottom makes it a challenge to install the base level, but once it is, navigating the carrier into the car and onto the base is easy.
Active Safety Features
Blind-spot monitoring is a stand-alone feature at $550, as are automatic high-beam headlamps for $250. More advanced active safety features are bundled into three numbered Premium packages that get progressively more expensive the higher up the list you go. The Premium 1 package ($3950) includes blind-spot monitoring, rear cross-traffic alert, a self-parking feature, and a backup camera. The Premium 2 package ($7600) adds adaptive headlamps and automatic high-beams to the Premium 1 package, and the $11,200 Premium 3 package provides the full gamut of active safety tech: adaptive cruise control, lane-keeping assist, lane-departure warning, forward-collision alert, automated emergency braking, a head-up display, and traffic-sign recognition. All three packages come with other luxury items not associated with safety features, but these high prices are still hard to justify.
Backup Camera
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