If you’re anything like me, you think SUVs are purpose-built to define drivers as kid-ferrying lemmings. Why can’t you have the ability to haul kids, but the practicality of style and occasional off-road ability. That’s what the people at Volvo and Mercedes-Benz thought when they created the Volvo V90 Cross Country and the Mercedes-Benz E-Class All Terrain.
Built on their respective sibling station wagon bodies, both vehicles offer increased ride height and the type of rugged appeal one would expect from a form of weekend warrior transport. You know, the likes of cladded wheel arches and black plastic highlights.
Both are priced from around $100,000 before on-road costs and both are aiming to appeal to the buyer who could afford a luxury SUV, but wants to settle for something a little unconventional. So we saddled up and drove toward the country to see whether either made more sense than the other.
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