Mercedes-AMG A45 S: Super-hatch with a price tag to match – CNET Roadshow
I really like this car… True I didn’t like either of the previous iterations of the a 45 but this one is rather different. What you probably already know about the a 45 S is that it costs an awful lot of money. And it’s extremely powerful. Meaning it’ll do nought to 62 miles an hour in just 3 point 9 seconds. But the reason I like this car is not really because of what it will do in a straight line. It’s how it gets through the corner. As brilliant as soon as you get into this the staring just feels wonderfully accurate. But also loosing the zone looseness to the whole chassis of fluidity, I suppose. The way it gets down a piece of road that works particularly well. In the UK, on the average B road, just lets you get into a stride and flow with the road. Even in its firmest suspension setting, because it’s got the adaptive dampers, you still got a lot more amount of rolls. Through the corners so you can really use the weight balance, feel the weight transfer through corners. And that means that when you’re driving quickly, not flat out, but just even when you’re just cruising along, you can actually get into a really nice rhythm with a car feel aware move through the road. Through a corner, and then when you are driving quickly, it just gives you that much more ability to change the attitude of the car. It feels more mobile straightaway. This being an AMG, there are of course many settings and a plethora of ways to adjust those settings. As with other MGS, I found the easiest thing to do is set the individual mode your preference. So manual gearbox, dynamic engine, loud exhaust, suspension, soft etc. And then you can simply toggle back and forth between max attack and comfort.
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The 2020 Mercedes-AMG A45 S Is the Hottest Hatch With a Wholly Unnecessary and Very Good 416 Horsepower – Jalopnik
by Patrick George
For the last few years, we’ve had to simply make do with 300 to 350 horsepower as the expected gold standard for our best hot hatchbacks. How have we survived this long? How have we managed to exist in a world so devoid of pointless, excessive hatchback speed? Fortunately, “excess” is basically a one-word summary of AMG, and the new Mercedes-AMG A45 S is here to solve our problems.
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