Clkrichard
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- 2011 CLC 220cdi 2004 CLK 320 cabriolet, R230 SL500, A class Sport AMG now arrived.
Sorry guys my mistake I thought the 1 was a 3 door only.
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Same question could be asked of many cars I guess - CLS vs. E-class for example?
Looks.
The C Class saloon still has the look of middle aged sales rep at best, and oap at worst.
The CLA conveys and altogether younger image.
Steve was asking if Mercedes had missed a trick by going FWD in regard to getting a younger more driver focused audience into the brand.
Mercedes will get the What Car? customers anyway, regardless of anything other than badge and looks, but they had a real chance here to make it 'the hot hatch to own' with the EVO readers too.
Which, once hooked on the A Class may move onto the AMGs etc.
But to me FWD cars are OK when you start to press on, they start to become fun, but that is why I like RWD cars so much, they are fun when just pootling round.
I went from an Audi S4 to the M3.
The Audi was great, when you were doing stupid speeds for UK roads, fun, but dangerous and completely selfish. The M3 in comparison was just a joy at any speed,
With a lsd they can get 300hp onto the road without too much drama too surprisingly and handle the bends even better!
I think an LSD is pretty much essential for a powerful FWD car.
My Type R had one and it handled amazingly. I had to recalibrate my sense of cornering speed whenever I got out of the Type R and into the MR2. Same corner taken comfortably in the FWD Type R would leave the RWD and mid-engined MR2's tires screaming for mercy!
gIzzE said:I think most are missing the point of this thread.
Steve was asking if Mercedes had missed a trick by going FWD in regard to getting a younger more driver focused audience into the brand.
What Car? is aimed at the demographic who probably already aspire to owning a Mercedes anyway.
Steve was asking why Mercedes had marketed the new A Class as the young, sporty, driver focused car and then not made it anything like that apart from in the looks department?
Mercedes will get the What Car? customers anyway, regardless of anything other than badge and looks, but they had a real chance here to make it 'the hot hatch to own' with the EVO readers too.
Which, once hooked on the A Class may move onto the AMGs etc.
I guess this forum is definitely more What Car? than EVO.
Don't get me wrong, I group myself in the former these days, but I never wanted a Merc till recently as until recently I wasn't middle aged.
Not A class though,can't see it compete with A3,in the past overtook A2 forcing Audi to stop the production of the model,which I recon was better than A class
A2 vs A Class.
A2 was alright, as a city car, but too small as a main car.
Also, consumption was really poor once out of town.
Trim was not great either, loads of rattles and vibrations under the dash.
Ride was also really choppy.
The A2 went up against the Smart I would say.
A2 was similar price to A-class
The A2 is a genuine 4 adult seater. So as big as the A-class. A-class did have a LWB version though (cost more?) and can seat 5 adults.
A2 boot is larger than a Focus/Golf.
A2 Diesel consumption is +60mpg on motorways.
A2 is lower tax than A-class.
A2 service intervals are up to 30k.
Ride is very firm on 16/17", but very passable on the 15". Too many customers bought the 16" because they look 'nice'
A2 trim does rattle.
I think most are missing the point of this thread.
Steve was asking if Mercedes had missed a trick by going FWD in regard to getting a younger more driver focused audience into the brand.
What Car? is aimed at the demographic who probably already aspire to owning a Mercedes anyway.
Steve was asking why Mercedes had marketed the new A Class as the young, sporty, driver focused car and then not made it anything like that apart from in the looks department?
Mercedes will get the What Car? customers anyway, regardless of anything other than badge and looks, but they had a real chance here to make it 'the hot hatch to own' with the EVO readers too.
Which, once hooked on the A Class may move onto the AMGs etc.
I guess this forum is definitely more What Car? than EVO.
Don't get me wrong, I group myself in the former these days, but I never wanted a Merc till recently as until recently I wasn't middle aged.
gIzzE said:Can't quite get what you're saying there?
A2 vs A Class.
A2 was alright, as a city car, but too small as a main car.
Also, consumption was really poor once out of town.
Trim was not great either, loads of rattles and vibrations under the dash.
Ride was also really choppy.
The A2 went up against the Smart I would say.
The new A3 is looking very good in sportback guise.
Comes with everything you need as standard, well the S-Line seems to anyway, sport seats in a really nice finish, xenons, media interface, sat nav and nice looking standard wheels.
Really just a case of ticking the box for B&O stereo and DSG gearbox.
This makes it a pretty good ownership proposition financially, as you haven't got £4000 worth of essential options on it that will loose £3000 over 3 years.
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