Because AMG knows we need a 416-hp compact car with a Drift mode.

Tobias Moers, Mercedes-AMG’s chairman, says that the company’s all-new 416-hp 2020 CLA45 S, the world’s most powerful production compact car, has one goal, and that’s “to raise vehicle dynamics and the sporty driving experience to a level previously unimaginable in the compact class.” But we’re pretty sure that Moers, were he to unbutton his collar, would say something like this: “We took a perfectly reasonable sedan and made it stupid fast, stupid loud, and able to do huge smoky powerslides. You’re gonna love it.”
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