The underwhelming Mercedes-Benz A-Class is getting some sort of makeover, in time for an early 2018 debut based on the progress seen on this prototype spotted around Dubai for the past few months.
The awkwardly-profiled Mercedes-Benz CLA-Class sedan has been successfully serving as an entry point to the three-pointed star family for a while now. At the 2017 Auto Shanghai, Mercedes-Benz previewed a new idea for a model, the Concept A sedan, which is based on the A-Class and may hint at the future design direction of the A/CLA/GLA trio.
Mercedes-Benz has officially revealed the 2016 A-Class facelift. The top-of-the-range A 45 AMG model now packs more power than the outgoing model.
Everybody keeps asking us what’s the best offroader. And we generally dodge this question, because it really depends more on skill than any specific 4×4 model. Even crossovers can go offroad, as we have proven before. But if you are brave enough, you can even take an all-wheel-drive turbo hatchback on the big dunes. Here is a 353 hp Mercedes-Benz A 45 AMG on the sand, not just casually strolling, but properly dune-bashing as if it were an offroad buggy.
Mercedes-Benz held their annual AMG Driving Academy event yet again, at the Yas Marina Circuit in Abu Dhabi. It is that one night of the year where we get to thrash the heck out of various new AMG models, and the slightly new format for this year was better than ever. They packed in so much track-time under the floodlights that several of the others in our media bunch were quitting out of exhaustion by the middle of the evening. We carried on, of course. With cars like the A 45 AMG, the E 63 S AMG, the SL 63 AMG,
After its dramatic birth back in the late 1990s as a 5-door Smart Car-alternative that went up on two wheels at the sight of a moose, the Mercedes-Benz A-Class went on to become rather popular in Europe, even though it was nothing more than a city runabout that shared the same badge as an S-Class. Of course, it never caught on in the UAE, where people prefer their luxury cars to look like, well, cars. But more than a decade later, the A-Class changes its ethos completely and comes back as a proper hatchback, apparently in search of buyers who don’t have white hair.
The premium hatchback segment is getting serious attention from German auto manufacturers nowadays. Audi already has played their cards with the RS3 to show and BMW have the M135i to ace it. Now Mercedes-Benz has thrown the A45 AMG into the mix.
One of our readers in Dubai, Afaq Soomro, caught what he says could be the new Mercedes-Benz A-Class or more likely a B-Class. And we’d say he guessed right, considering camouflaged Mercedes-Benz cars in the UAE are a common sight and these test cars seem to be escorted by other Mercedes-Benz cars.
This is the concept version of the 2012-2013 Mercedes-Benz A-Class. If you recall, the A-Class is the German carmaker’s smallest model that flopped in the GCC a decade ago, but continued to thrive in the European market. It looks like the A-Class is ditching its dorky height and gaining some length soon.