Mercedes-Benz CLA: The CLS sold on its exclusivity. Can the CLA pull the same trick?

摘要

This is unusual. Mercedes-Benz has been extending its range for well over a decade, but the CIA represents another shift-step again. This time, it is to a range that has logically grown to include 4x4s and sports cars, and then downsized into front-wheel-drive hatchbacks. The CLA is a curious thing: a front-wheel-drive saloon based on the platform used by the A-class, itself a newly conventional hatchback rather than the mini-MPV that originally used the name. If you're looking for yet another reason why the A-class became a straightforward small premium hatch rather than a revolutionary twin-floor packaging marvel, look no further than here.