Four doors, four-pot, four-wheel-drive and with forty-five in the name - what's not to like?
Note for reference: car weight and power data are hard to pin down with absolute certainty. For consistency, we use the same source for all our guides. We hope the data we use is right more often than it’s wrong. Our advice is to treat it as relative rather than definitive.The idea of a 2.0-litre four producing over 400hp would have seemed crazy not too long ago but the M139 made this bonkers concept real in 2019.
It did like to rev though. Quad tailpipes distinguished it from the twin-tailpipe CLA 35, although in fact there was only one main pipe running to each side of the 45, just as in the 35. Not everyone wanted their car to make a load of snap, crackle and pop noises but if you were that person the CLA 45 S would do you proud, serving up a raucous symphony of mechanical commotion whenever the gearbox was being worked and the exhaust valves were open.
There were a few issues with the turbo, injectors, engine oil consumption and gearboxes on early gen-one A/CLA 45 engines. The turbo’s absence of an anti-surge valve forced excess pressure to exit via the impeller, bringing premature wear, and there had to be a recall on DCT transmission assemblies where a welded seam could fracture, causing a loss of drive.
In Comfort, the ride quality was firm but far from harsh. Twirling the drive mode dial on the steering wheel to Sport or Sport+ enabled manual mode and opened up the road for fun a-plenty. The steering was sharp, pointy and well-judged, and underpinned by tons of grip. It felt perfectly sorted for UK roads.
On top of that, you had a full-colour head-up display, adaptive cruise, and active steering and brake assist. A fair bit of trackpad-clicking and diving through menu levels was needed if you wanted to disable some of the potentially annoying safety functions like lane-keeping, but in general, the CLA’s cabin environment was pleasantly and stylishly functional with enough physical knobbery on hand to satisfy most users.
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