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Mercedes S 500 Plug-In Hybrid price & specs – costs from £87,965

The Mercedes S500 Plug-in Hybrid arrives in the UK It’s more than a year since the Mercedes S500 Plug-in Hybrid was revealed, and now it’s finally going on sale in the UK and, if your pockets are deep enough, it offers a perfect ‘cake and eat it’ car. Under the skin there’s a 3.0 litre V6 biturbo delivering 329bhp and an electric motor adding a further 116bhp which together give the S500 Plug-in the ability to blat to 62mph in just 5.2 seconds but return official economy of 100.9 mpg and emissions of a measly 65g/km. That combination means that you won’t have to pay Boris to drive through London, and your BIK rate will be a very modest 5 per cent, making the S500 plug-in Hybrid a perfect choice for every board member in the country currently paying 35 per cent on their petrol S500, BMW 7 Series or Audi A8.

Autoweek in review: What you might have missed

The automotive racing world lost yet another character this week with the passing of “Big” Willie Robinson. He was 70 years old. May marks the 40-year anniversary of the BMW M division.

Infiniti's future - you ask the difficult questions

CAR is traveling to Spain at the end of this week to drive Infiniti’s first diesel model, the FX. We’re also meeting with Jim Wright, Infiniti’s European vice president for an exclusive one-on-one interview – so we want your most probing and insightful Infiniti-related questions please. Feel free to post as many as want below, and we’ll put them to Wright during the interview.