The Mercedes-Benz A 45 AMG is the smallest AMG ever, but its diminutive size is indirectly proportional with its performance apparently.
By performance we're not only talking about its naught to 100 km/h (62 mph) time – even though, at 4.6 seconds, it's not exactly a slouch in that department – but also about the model's racing track prowess.
Checking out the following video, courtesy of the French from Motorsport Magazine, we realized that the A 45 AMG is not only the fastest accelerating hot hatch on the planet right now, but it's also the fastest hatchback on the very technical Magny-Cours Club racing track.
Its 1'25”82 time on the 2.5 kilometer (1.4 miles) circuit is faster than a Lotus Elise S, a Porsche Cayman, a Renault Megane RS Trophy and even a 2011 CLS 63 AMG with the 557hp Performance Package.
If that isn't impressive, considering we're talking about a front-wheel drive-based all-wheel drive hot hatch, we don't know what is. Check out the video below for yourself and be amazed.
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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