Mercedes compacts have been renewed recently, including their most performance versions signed by AMG. A very powerful range that has undergone major changes in recent weeks, the most radical AMG 45 disappearing without notice in all compacts.
The latest generation of the star brand's compacts spread fear when its sportier and more extreme versions made an appearance on the market, coming to offer two options in each of them with a significant difference in power between both versions of up to 116 hp. Until then, the A-Class, CLA, CLA Shooting Brake, and GLA had enjoyed a top-of-the-range version with the AMG 45 rear badge, a symbol for a model range that bordered, if not exceeded, the 400 hp barrier.
Mercedes understood that there were many high-performance compacts in the 300 CV orbit and that the best way to stand out was to surpass it by far, but that many sensation-loving customers were also going to be left out due to its high price. For this reason, it decided to offer a more decaffeinated variant of the "AMG 35" and two other more powerful ones with the "AMG 45" and "AMG 45 S" stamps, each one more powerful, setting a record power level than at which BMW It hasn't come close but Audi has with the RS 3 Sportback.
The compacts of Mercedes lose the extreme versions AMG 45
But with the introduction of the compact update, the AMG 45 versions have disappeared from their corresponding offerings. The AMG 35 and AMG 45 are externally distinguished by the number of exhausts, one in the case of the first and two in the second, but taking a look at the brand's configurator you will realize that the AMG A 45, CLA 45 and CLA 45 Shooting Brake have disappeared from this configuration tool.
The reason is unknown, but there is a very significant detail, and that is that until before the presentation of the facelift of the Mercedes GLA, this more powerful version was available and not later. The brand of the star has not communicated this decision to eliminate the three most radical options, but it is at least significant and it is something that does not obey an exceptional situation such as the microchip crisis, but something deeper.
The high emissions of
the 422 hp engine, after the decision of Mercedes
One problem is more related to the CO2 emissions of the fleet since it is a propellant that, taking into account that it is a 2.0-liter turbo and with more than 420 CV, its emissions figures, in the best of cases, that of the five-door compact, does not drop below 200 g/km. A figure that, in the case of the "AMG 35" version, has been reduced below this limit and only in the GLA 35 it barely exceeds one gram. The 306 CVs offered by these versions are more than enough for the vast majority of customers, even, though their sales figures are as testimonial as those of the "45", they considerably reduce the emissions of the entire range.
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