The Mercedes-Benz CLA 45 AMG is a niche model within a niche, so from this point of view it has all the basic pre-requisites to become a future classic and most likely a tuner favorite.
Powered by a two-liter, turbocharged, four-cylinder mill that is based on the engine found in the CLA 250, the most furious looking, sounding and performing CLA version has almost 100% more power than its donor.
Instead of the not-exactly-puny 211 hp (208 bhp) and 350 Nm (258 lb ft) of torque of the CLA 250, the bonkers CLA 45 AMG brings no less than 360 hp (355 bhp) and 450 Nm (332 lb ft) of torque to the table.
Those figures translate into a 4.6 seconds time needed to reach 100 km/h (62 mph) from standing still, so this turbocharged four-pot - internally-codenamed M133 - is a force to be reckoned with when placed in the sexy body of the CLA.
What would you do with all that performance if you had the empty streets of Paris all to yourself for the night? Obviously, you would hire a camera car to film you racing and a Michael Bay-like aspiring commercial director to edit the footage into something that doesn't quite make a lot of sense, except visually for the Need For Speed generation. Which is what we kind of think for the following video.
Alex handled his first real steering wheel at the age of five (on a field) and started practicing "Scandinavian Flicks" at 14 (on non-public gravel roads). Following his time at the University of Journalism, he landed his first real job at the local franchise of Top Gear magazine a few years before Mircea (Panait). Not long after, Alex entered the New Media realm with the autoevolution.com project. Full profile
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