Would you?

Size 15s are serious feet. Must be a struggle to drive most three-pedal cars - which would include the E and CLS if their third pedal wasn't well out of the way.

Don't suppose you've noticed but is there much room left behind your big mate in his CLS? A boy and I did have a clamber on a CLS saloon in the Slough showroom a couple of years ago and thought it was short of headroom in the back, but we blamed the glass roof - silly things. (In any case, there was an SL500 next to it that we found much more interesting at the time.) The SB has a higher roofline over the back seats, so should be better. Got to try, haven't I?

Oh I say! Bellissima! I like that. A Ferrari with room for cricket bags. Maybe once I've offloaded the other family estate, I could out-Sven Sven in his 540i. Not sure I'd fit in, but there's one way to find out.

Well, I know there's enough room in the CLS shooting brake for my pal and his Chihuahua, because it goes everywhere with him. The dog is called "Bruce" by the way. After Bruce Lee apparently, because it does a lot of leaping about, making random high pitched sort of growling noises.

Anyway, that's not really helping is it? You'd hope to fit a dog that size in most cars.

OMG, those seats look like something out of a leather gay bar cloak room.

I'm still looking forward to seeing the new Panamera shooting brake or whatever they are going to call it.

I might be tempted to sell some of my own body parts to fund one of those.

Was out and about yesterday on Family Estate business and dropped into a couple of MB showrooms on the way home. Neither had a CLS wagon without a sunroof but I had a good clamber anyway. Result! I can get in, even in the back - although the sunroof ruins the experience for anyone tall by combining with the sloping roofline to form a lump right in front of a tall passenger's forehead. It also means that I can't set the driver's seat as high as I'd like, which has a knock-on effect on knee room behind me. (Sunroofs really ought to crawl back to the dustbin of the 1990s, along with tea-tray spoilers and cassette players.) And I'm not sure I'd like the experience of being hemmed in by the big front head restraints and a curving window line that takes the top of the window below my eyeline.

But, and this is important, the legroom there is is at least as good as our S211, and better than the new S213. If we can find one without a sunroof, I think we might be in business. I'm driving one on Friday.

I also called in on Messrs Volvo and had a similar poke around a V90, a jacked-up Cross-Country with a double glass roof. (Bleagh to both.) Explained my space requirement and was assured that the V90 was the wagon for me. And it's not bad, although no better than I can get from Stuttgart. And the load area is decent but again, not E-wagon sized. They don't have a V90 demo car just now, but took me out in their S90 - also with sunroof. Slough traffic and roadworks meant we spent most of the time in queues, but it is great to sit in. Not the most confidence-inducing in traffic, though, because its sides and bonnet are so high that even I get the feeling of peering over the window sills and a huge bonnet; my E, by contrast, is very easy to place in traffic.

The interior is beautiful, though, and everything feels good, even the touchscreen for navigation, air conditioning and almost everything else. And the notorious Volvo parking brake switch is now neatly in front of the centre armrest, where it's much easier to work with the left hand than it used to be with the right knee.

Four-cylinder diesel, of course, but it doesn't sound like one. There's no rattling at idle and it pulls strongly and smoothly when it gets the chance. It does torque-steer, though; two years without driving a powerful FWD car had made me forget that feeling of squirming front wheels, although I don't remember it from the Golf GTI I tried. I didn't get to try it on a road that required any really steering input.

I am going to try the V90 when they get one, and I think I might like it. But I have a feeling that a CLS350 might keep me from pining for the 325d if we decide we don't need two expensive cars; the V90 feels more like the car I wanted Volvo to sell me five years ago, but I'm not sure it fits now.

I am desperately waiting for these V90s to age a few years and depreciate. I think my next car change will probably be in 2020 - I'd like to get something I really want, 50th birthday treat. A3/4 year old V90 is going to be hard to overlook. Will have to be a D5. But stone me they're expensive.

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Wonder what that one will be going for in 3 years time with 40/50k more on the clock?