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Mercedes CLA 45 AMG on Custom Vossen Wheels

The CLA 45 AMG Coupe could very well be the premium performance bargain of the moment in America. With a starting sticker of just $49,000, it's the cheapest AMG model you can get, and yet it can keep up with a Porsche 911 Carrera in a straight line, thanks to the most powerful 2-liter turbo in production.
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Photo: Vossen Wheels
But no Mercedes can ever truly be cheap and the CLA demands a hefty toll with its options list. For instance, an 18-inch set of AMG wheels can cost as much as $3,800.

Here's what you can get if you travel the aftermarket road that takes you to Vossen's doorstep. We've seen a number of other Mercedes compacts on Vossen wheels during their trip to Japan. But this isn't your average A/CLA-Class. It's the full chilly sauce, the turbocharged tamale.

The CLA 45 is the first AMG car with a 4-cylinder turbo engine to be sold in America. The baby brother of the CLS 63 has half its cylinder and yet still manages to impress us with its 355 hp and 0 to 60 in 4.4 seconds.

The Vossen VF wheel series isn't too shabby either. Far from it, in fact. Manufactured with flow forming technology that maintains the integrity of the design while improving grain structure of the aluminum, creating a stronger, lighter, and thinner forged-like rim barrel.

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About the author: Mihnea Radu
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Mihnea's favorite cars have already been built, the so-called modern classics from the '80s and '90s. He also loves local car culture from all over the world, so don't be surprised to see him getting excited about weird Japanese imports, low-rider VWs out of Germany, replicas from Russia or LS swaps down in Florida.
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