Because Four Doors and a Big Boot Doesn't Mean You Have to Drive Like You've Given Up. Stage 1 Motors are pleased to offer this superb Mercedes-Benz C43 AMG Estate — and yes, before anyone asks, it absolutely is a practical family car. It has five doors. It has a massive boot. The kids fit in the back. You can do the weekly shop in it. It ticks every sensible, responsible, grown-up box you could possibly need. It also has a 3.0-litre twin-turbocharged V6 with 367ps, permanent 4MATIC all-wheel drive, and a nine-speed AMG-tuned gearbox that genuinely makes you look for excuses to use a slip road. But that's beside the point. Mostly. The thing is, the C43 Estate is one of those rare cars that lets you have it both ways — and do both brilliantly. It's genuinely rapid when you want it to be, genuinely composed when you don't, and genuinely spacious enough that nobody in the family can complain. You've thought about this logically. It makes complete sense. The fact that it sounds incredible on a trailing throttle is purely incidental. Finished in Blue with Premium Plus specification, the practical arguments practically write themselves — heated seats for everyone, a boot the size of a small shed, and enough technology to keep the kids quiet. The rather wide arches, quad exhausts and AMG bodywork are, again, just how it came. You didn't specifically ask for those. Probably. Inside, the cabin is every inch the Mercedes you'd expect — beautifully built, driver-focused, and just plush enough that your other half might actually enjoy being a passenger. Which helps. C43 AMG Estates in Premium Plus are genuinely hard to find. The people who own them tend not to sell them, and it's not hard to see why.