AMG’s CLA 45 Is A Rapid Electric Wagon With An Active Wing

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Mercedes-AMG’s CLA 45 has been spotted successful wagon signifier for the archetypal time.
The compact EV prototype is believed to diagnostic a triple-motor powertrain.
A tiny electrical helping astatine the apical of the rear hatch extends into the aerial astatine speed.

BMW’s M division isn’t the lone automaker injecting caller vigor into the show wagon segment. So is its large rival from Affalterbach, Mercedes-AMG, arsenic these shots of the caller CLA 45 shooting brake show.

We’ve already spotted the sedan mentation of the AMG CLA 45 EV aggregate times, positive wagon-bodied, non-AMG variants of the combustion CLA. But this is our archetypal sighting of the blistery EV with the long-roof body.

All of those cars, positive immoderate SUV-shaped spin-offs our spy photograph teams person yet to way down, are built connected the aforesaid versatile level that’s susceptible of handling combustion and electrical powertrains. Hottest of the batch are the 45 EV versions of each assemblage style, which are believed to get a triple-motor setup that delivers astatine slightest 500 hp (507 PS / 373 kW).

But it looks similar the torque-vectoring motors aren’t the lone happening the wagon has successful communal with its notchback brother. We’ve spied a deployable spoiler connected CLA sedan prototypes, but present Mercedes has, ahem, extended the courtesy to the wagon.

The helping astatine the apical of the load lugger’s rear hatch doesn’t look arsenic large arsenic the 1 connected the sedan – which is rumoured to treble arsenic an airbrake – oregon look to widen arsenic acold into the airflow, but there’s nary uncertainty that it’s an active, alternatively than passive aero device.

AMG’s CLA 45 Is A Rapid Electric Wagon With An Active Wing

We’d usually lone expect to spot the helping extended astatine freeway speeds, truthful possibly the trial operator has pressed a fastener to manually rise it successful this case, oregon has a track-type mode selected wherever the helping is permanently poking supra the roof.

Other giveaways that we’re looking astatine the AMG variant of the CLA wagon see the monobloc brake callipers down the forged alloy wheels astatine the front. And the blanked grille and deficiency of tailpipes archer america it’s decidedly an EV, though we expect AMG to present combustion versions of the CLA, too.

Exactly what motor volition powerfulness those ICE models remains to beryllium seen. A caller study claimed AMG was ditching the unpopular four-cylinder hybrid motor successful the C63, and suggested the full M139 2.0 motor family, including non-PHEV versions, would beryllium phased out. That could mean the adjacent ICE CLA 45 volition get a warmed-over mentation of the 1.5-liter hybrid powertrain coming to non-AMG CLAs.