Mercedes A45 AMG
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I like the seats and the steering wheel, the rest is pretty meh.
Also: car makers, stop with the carbon fiber accessories. I hate them, and they look ridiculous in a road car where the 2 lbs you're saving is equivalent to the couple of big gulps in the cup holders. If I had one of these, the first thing I'd have done is the dash painted piano black to cover your carbon fiber.
Also: car makers, stop with the carbon fiber accessories. I hate them, and they look ridiculous in a road car where the 2 lbs you're saving is equivalent to the couple of big gulps in the cup holders. If I had one of these, the first thing I'd have done is the dash painted piano black to cover your carbon fiber.
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Now THAT'S a hot hatch I can get down with. 
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Personally, I think the new CLA-Class sedan/coupe looks pretty badass. The 355/360-horse (depending on which market it's in) turbo 4 is definitely impressive, too. I could see myself driving a CLA45 AMG.
Not too bad in the hatch version, wonder what the price for the AMG will be. As for the CLA sedan, looks nice enough until the slug-tail rear end.
Agree about the 190 sedan, that was a sharp little car that possessed all the larger sedan's design themes without simply looking like an awkwardly shrunken version as often happens. IIRC, the aero CD was actually pretty good on this, someth like .32. While it might seem a touch bricklike and sharp edged at first glance, the profile is actually pretty sleek and the sharp lines are all lateral, aligned with the air flow. I miss that trim, taut, machined from a block of unobtainium engineered look of that period, certainly as compared to the excessively styled, florid designs of today's MBs. These older ones just oozed an impression of serious engineering rather than marketing department driven flourishes.
Agree about the 190 sedan, that was a sharp little car that possessed all the larger sedan's design themes without simply looking like an awkwardly shrunken version as often happens. IIRC, the aero CD was actually pretty good on this, someth like .32. While it might seem a touch bricklike and sharp edged at first glance, the profile is actually pretty sleek and the sharp lines are all lateral, aligned with the air flow. I miss that trim, taut, machined from a block of unobtainium engineered look of that period, certainly as compared to the excessively styled, florid designs of today's MBs. These older ones just oozed an impression of serious engineering rather than marketing department driven flourishes.
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