I stumbled across the E Class brochure effective 1st June 18. It is for the saloon & estate and only has diesels and (proper) AMG’s. It has the prices and options. Some of the options such as HUD are restricted to the AMG’s and there is a new ‘comfort’ package (£ 1900) which reintroduces the massage seats and air body control. Comand is £ 1,500 except on the AMG’s.
Can you check the brochure again, I am fairly sure the comfort package says something about massaging as well as changing the 'ambiance'. If I am right you will get a bit of a result because I had to buy the heat comfort package to get the massage seats total £ 2,300.
The only solice I can offer is that the car is definitely worth waiting for. Mine was 9+ months from order. Just after I got mine on 1st March I learnt that my E350e model was to be upgraded, of course nobody made me aware of that. It was just as well I got over a 20% discount. I think Merc upgrade / chop the options about far too frequently. What delivery date do you have now ?Wivenhoe,
Not knowing about this I did some internet browsing today and read the article you quote, but it seems it combines fitted features only. So in UK we've never had the cooled seats you can have every where else. From what I can see pumps out air freshener, distracts you by moving all the interior lights around and distracts you by clicking strange colours accros the Comand screen. Massage seats were £1600 alone before ( excluding all the stuff it had to be combined with). Looked today and air freshener refills are €50 a pop in Germany. So it looks like I'll have to pay £400 more to loose 1/3rd of my glovebox, have some stupid software that will NEVER be turned on just so I can have air suspension and be denied the proper options I actually want! I would love to be proved wrong but I reckon the only thing on the seat to energize will be the lumbar support going in and out in time to some s**** music that it thinks will "relax me".
Still with the money saved I can look forward to many years of Daily Mail subscription
thus, admitting they have done nothing with my order (other than taking a deposit and humouring me along) for 8 weeks, then when they go to slot in for a build realise they can't. After I prompt them about are there same issues for the Estate, it transpires there are. I then did some Internet research and uncovered loads of chat about WSC delays, the fact that MB US had removed it from all cars as an option in Q3/17 and that all German dealers were told back end of Q4/17 that WSC was not available until Jun 18. Apparently MB UK Retail (who are supplying my car) knew nothing about this - B****** (followed by much coughing). 
After more prompting by me about changes in spec ("we don't know anything about that either" comes the response, even though the post Apr 18 price list was release on MB UK website in Jan 18) they have assured me I will get heated windscreen and massage seats but my intermediary supplier says he tried to order two cars with heated windscreen in late March for Sep delivery and got the big fat freddie! (hence mine and his scepticism).
I know it'll be worth the wait but.....
Some new model year info. Today MBUK introduced the E53 in saloon and estate variants and E400d.
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one with the updated Driver Assistance Package and latest emission standards.
Hence my frustration with all this rubbish about Energizing nonsense just to have Air Suspension.......
