Mercedes’ CLA 45 AMG Racing Is Awesome

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CLA 45 AMG Racing
As much as I love girls in American flag bikinis (a lot), that’s not why I care about the CLA. Mercedes might be turning to sorta-clothed women and hip advertising to make it appeal to my millenial self, but all they had to do was show me this:

I don’t really know what racing series—if any—the CLA would race in. All I know, is that I want it to race. AMG has tuned this thing to put out 360 horses through all four wheels. I don’t know about you, but to me, that sounds like a rally car. Now, this model isn’t really painted up like one, but the mental image of a Mercedes four-wheel-drifting through trees makes my heart skip a beat.

I have a suspicion that they built this thing just because they could. I agree with the guys over at Autoblog, that the WTCC would be perfect for this. They’d have to switch it to FWD. While that would be  little depressing, it would make up for it by running away from BMW on road courses across the world.

 


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