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Road test: Mercedes AMG A45S
I do not sign you for that, but there is a situation where the guys at AMG have managed to hide from the executives at Mercedes what they are building there, otherwise it is difficult to explain how such a thing comes to production.
About a race against the sun, a practical test for pitball and one of the craziest cars around
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Keenan Cohen
Wednesday, 28 October 2020, 07:50
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She started as an A-Class, but became something completely different
I am in a race, not against a man, not against a machine and not against the clock, I am in a race against a very old rival who was here before us and will be after us - the sun.
This huge ball is already lowering towards the west and I have one more driving road in the valley that I must do with the A45S.
Like a character joining a character, like layers of glaze on a cake every driving road I have done so far with this white field only made it clear to me how essential it is to get to this stage.
But up to that I have 45 km on an administrative road and a speed limit that is quite enough for you when you drive a compact car with 421 hp - and it is by definition the complete opposite of the term "administrative".
Will we be able to arrive before dark?
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This grill that looks like cage bars, it's not just, you know what you put in a cage - monster
The question of authenticity
For years my rule was simple, Mercedes can call any model it wants AMG, for my part you will also take out a Sprinter or one of the Actros and Arox trucks in the AMG version.
But for me, to be a true AMG it has to have three things: rear-wheel drive, a V8 engine and a plate from its engine builder - if I have those three in the cauldron, I knew exactly what I would get - a power bomb with very few inhibitions or filters about what it thinks On you and your driving.
This is exactly why I came back very lukewarm from previous encounters with C43AMG, I could appreciate them very much as a product - but not as an AMG.
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Then came the A45 and I'm talking right now about the previous one that taught me that my rule also has an exception.
She showed that even with a 4-cylinder engine and dual propulsion it can produce the same sweeping mind-blending mix.
And from the moment they started dripping details about the new generation, the performance, the power, its sophisticated dual propulsion system, I did not know whether to watch impatiently, or take into account that disappointment is also a kind of surprise.
A pile of armature and fantastic seats
Built for Talpiot
We will run fast on the principles of what you see here.
At this base is a Mercedes A-Class, the entry ticket into the world of Mercedes that at a very early stage of its life is pulled out of its regular sisters and enters the "unit training" of the AMG division.
There skilled hands build its engine, assemble it upside down compared to its regular sisters (with the intake manifold forward), more radiators for cooling, dual propulsion Haldex is implanted in its vicinity with electronic differential lock at the rear, 8-speed dual-clutch gearbox attached to it, stabilizer bars Thick, adaptive shock absorbers, mighty brakes perforated discs and thick calipers are crammed behind its rims and for dessert it gets a pile of extras and a cabin blown up in instrumentation.
With the skin upside down on the sides of the steering wheel, I am willing to restrain even the section that is truncated
You have already read and heard about most of what is here in the cabin in our entire review of this car - I would like to dwell on two of them: the steering wheel and the seats.
I'm not a big fan of a truncated and flat steering wheel at the bottom but this one, with the skin upside down exactly where it should be covers it up.
"If it was two cm smaller in diameter I would have been really happy. The seats are also the kind that pack you in and hold tight tight in turns and thank God for that.
In short, the word" limitation "was kept here only for the maximum speed and was also set at 270 km." That.
At first glance, it really does not look like the car that will blow your mind at every traffic light
Fear and terror in a warm introduction
In general, a dual-propulsion sports car is a deal breaker for me, I know it is more efficient, allows more power to the road, faster, everything is fine - but will not help court, they always behave less well than rear-wheel drive cars and really good front-wheel drive cars , Somehow they manage to combine the less good sides of each of them - apart from her.
This A45 has six driving modes, four of which are relevant to life with it, "Comfort", "Sport", "Sport Plus" and "RACE".
The other two are the mode that allows independent calibration of each of the systems (engine, brakes, gears, controls) and a driving mode designed for a smooth road and moderating its responses.
RACE mode?
Only if you are truly committed
How does it travel?
In comfort mode it just drives like a very powerful car and very uncomfortable, no problem, no one expects to hover over the road fragments here, certainly not in a car like this, certainly not with these tires.
After all, if your living environment includes bumpy roads on a regular basis, it will be really hard to live with it.
At the beginning of a trip or slow travel the gearbox is rough in its operation.
It's not "character", it's just annoying.
Rotate the dial to the "Sport" position, and a tremor travels throughout the body, at its beginning and then yours, with a gargle coming from the front, back and bottom.
Then it starts to travel really as planned, especially on the winding road.
The business moves sharply and responds frantically to every movement, the engine launches its 51 kilograms in strokes to the dual propulsion system and wheels accelerating forward and out of turns. Responds even faster to each click and the engine peels off a few more layers of refinement and becomes a chain of power explosions.Then you switch to "RACE" mode and discover again, that how wild you thought she was?
No one expects comfort with such a cut right?
But the brakes here, oh they's good
Now, pretty much everything that happens here in the driving experience in each of the situations is on the same principle, it starts out very nice, a small tick in the steering wheel and it will produce a TURN IN of a caliper puncture right on the spot and dive inside.
And after you reach the peak of the turn, and you feel really good with it, everything worked so smoothly, you put the gas in and one of the two - either you don't push it enough and it just flies forward, or you push it too much and it will blow so much power to the wheels The rear, that if you had the luck and speed to catch it, you could try to recreate what even happened here now - this is supposed to be a dual propulsion car, where did it come from ?!
The sound transforms from a steadily calm gurgle to startling roars when it is at the end
Then comes another turn and you try to perfect it every time and do it this way, and then, and with more braking in and with more throttle and then just flipping the steering wheel early and letting her mighty boost straighten her out of the turn line - for me it was a moment of revelation, a propulsion car A dual that manages to produce a mix of fun, and that's what the Audi RS3 has always lacked.
Because Mercedes' dual-propulsion system knows how to dismantle this matter of transferring power to each wheel, not only front and rear, but also between the rear wheels.
This means a very high capacity of lowering power at any given moment, and a car moving around itself, with minimal impact of body roll or weight transfers.
In acceleration, in turning, in changing direction - and all this ability to harness it to a sequence of movement, stabbing, repeating, stabbing and again, like a combination of dance and sword fighting.
If I have to completely explain to you what it's like to drive it tight in all three modes - in "sport" mode it's do a proctological test for pitball - you press a little more each time and hope you don't get a bite, in "sport plus" mode - you do it with your head inside His mouth.
In "RACE" mode - this pitball does the test for you.
Engine signature?
This is a real AMG
Panting
In the race between me and the sun, I managed to win, right on the scales - but I admit I cheated.
I do not mind it was worth it, because the Mercedes AMG A45S is a car that is so easy to get carried away, reproducing the brain-blowing acceleration of 3.9 seconds at each traffic light with the jump control.
Think about it for a moment, 3.9 seconds per 100 was a perfectly legitimate time for supercars in the 90s and now you can jump into the super with a compact car that does that?
I cheated, but I managed to beat the sun in the race
It can also be slid in abandoned parking lots in RACE mode and detached grip control.
And she has another ace, a "drift" mode, whose technical constraint and mine made me skip the opportunity, but we'll get back to her to check it out as well.
As of today, it is the wildest expression of a hot premium compact and one of the coolest driving experiences outside of the pure-race sports car world.
And it's true that she's not exactly hidden to the tools, but for those who do not understand what has passed here now (or suffer from hearing problems) she also does not come in an unusual external show.
As of today, the absolute hottest compact.
The price accordingly
And there is also the other side of the coin, sorry, not a coin, a lot of coins.
Because this car also comes with a high, very high, frighteningly high price tag of 520,000 shekels.
That's 100,000 shekels (!) More than its closest competitor, the Audi RS3 (which is less good than it, sharp and smooth, but not by such a gap).
On the other hand, for those who have the privilege of considering a compact sports car at all in such amounts - the question of value in its classic way as most of us know it - is not relevant at all.
He will just buy it and get a marvelous machine in its capabilities, and will do good to himself and humanity if he invests one percent of the purchase amount in an advanced driving course.
Half a million shekels for a compact?
Is it even possible to talk about "value" in these numbers?
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On the technical side: Mercedes AMG A45S
Engine, propulsion:
gasoline, turbo, 4-cylinder, dual
volume:
1,991 cc
Power / rpm (6 hp):
6,750 / 421
torque / rpm (kg):
5,000 / 51
Transmission:
automatic , Dual-clutch, 8 gears
Dimensions:
Length (cm):
445
Width (cm):
185
Height (cm):
141
Wheelbase (cm):
273
Trunk (liters):
370
Performance:
Acceleration 0-100:
3.9 seconds
Maximum speed:
270 km / h
Competitors:
Audi RS3 (will be replaced soon), BMW M140i (hopefully in the near future)
Price:
NIS 520,000
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