Not much has changed with the A45 update - perhaps it didn't need to.
It’s now a decade since the first Mercedes A45 AMGs arrived in the UK. Even in a sector that had recently also welcomed a five-cylinder RS3 and six-cylinder M135i, this was something significant. It was a Mercedes hot hatch, for starters, when not many years before the junior AMG was a C63 - a huge step change for Affalterbach, basically.
Having not driven an A45 since the original launch, it’s a fascinating car to get reacquainted with. While ostensibly another all-wheel drive hot hatch powered by a 2.0-litre turbo with a dual-clutch auto, it undoubtedly possesses a character all of its own. The key to that, as always, is in the impression of being a genuinely downsized AMG experience - rather than simply a hotted-up A-Class. It sounds insignificant, but there’s tangible evidence of it even in normal driving.
It seems a shame that the M139 engine has now been sullied somewhat by its association with a two-tonne C63, because it remains an absolutely epic four-cylinder turbo. There is nothing else comparable out there with such energy and vigour over the last 1,500rpm or so, charging for 7,200rpm like an engine possessed. The 421hp 2.
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