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" It&amp;#039;s been a long time since the smallest Mercedes-Benz looked this good. You have to go back a quarter century to the 190E 2.3-16 and its DTM breeding. The 2014 CLA45 AMG would roast that car in so many ways, the first being its 360-horsepower 2.0-liter four cylinder, the most powerful turbo four in a production car. Mercedes likes big boost, and they cannot lie \u2013 a max of 26.1 psi spins out of the snail, and a butterfly valve in the exhaust lends some extra &amp;quot;hell yeah!&amp;quot;   Mercedes wants you to draw the connection between the CLA45 AMG and the big-gun sports cars like the SLS AMG GT, so they&amp;#039;re talking up how the cooling system design is lifted from the halo car to help the little guy chase the CLS63 AMG, which happens to have cast the four-door-coupe mold that this latest sedan is cast from. Okay, fine. Brand away if that means you can trust AMG-badged cars to be an acronym for Ach, Mein Gott! Which is what you say when you stamp the pedal into the carpet.   The other details of impressively complex sporting equipment will likewise activate your salivary glands. Seven-speed dual clutch transmission with carbon-fiber synchronizer linings, 4MATIC all-wheel drive, this time with a default bias to FWD until power needs to go aft, and a completely tweaked suspension with stiffer bushings, rigidly-mounted rear subframe and AMG tuning. Remember, this is a car that&amp;#039;s based on the A and B Class FWD compacts, inauspicious roots for a high performer.   Still, with the CLA45 cloaked in styling that fools you into assuming it&amp;#039;s a rear-driver like every Benz of note, and packing more sturm und drang under the hood than a Wagner crescendo, it&amp;#039;s going to be fun to watch Mercedes and BMW beat each other&amp;#039;s brains out in this end of the market. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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