Mercedes CLA Shooting Brake: pioneer species

In grafted indicator of a backpack and becoming Shooting Brake, CLA stands out even more, and describes itself as the only compact shooting brake market. Presentation.

For several months, the CLA Shooting Brake panics objectives specialist photographers . And it is at the dawn of publishing Detroit show in 2015 that the German chose to end the cachoteries, revealing itself through a series of official photos.
Thus, almost two years after the presentation of the CLA "sedan" and two and a half years after her older sister CLS Shooting Brake, the CLA of the same name shows her flashy design. If the base version is not already doing discreetly, with its wheels with a generous diameter, its flagship aggressive design and its big grille, Fascination versions (with the AMG pack) and 45AMG, presented simultaneously in rajoutent a layer : guard the ground demeaned, touches of color on the body and black rims are part of own appendices to these two finishes.

Gray, the CLA Shooting Brake Fascination (AMG Pack) limited edition "OrangeArt".

The dashboard, directly from Class A, CLA and GLA, follows the same path. However, it has a new steering wheel borrowed from the latest C-Class
But why make the break if we are not gaining practical aspects? To this, the CLA Shooting Brake advance boot space up 25 dm3 compared to the CLA "classic", so to offer 495 loading dm3, which additional 100 dm3 can be added, with the rear seats upright . Completely folded, the seats release a space for increasing the boot capacity to 1354 dm3.
The radius of other practical festivities, the Shooting Brake will be equipped with an optional automatic closing of the trunk.

Despite its new useful aspects, the CLA Shooting Brake remains a CLA. As such, it will take over the palette sedan engines: three petrol engines developing 122 (CLA 180), 156 (CLA 200) and 211 hp (CLA 250) and two diesel units, respectively 136 (CLA 200CDI ) and 177 hp (CLA 220CDI). Not to mention the CLA 45AMG (gasoline, of course) and its 360 hp.
Scheduled for a market launch in March 2015 (in the wake of the Geneva Motor Show), a premium of about € 1500 to 2000 compared with conventional CLA is considered.
At the launch of the CLA Shooting Brake, a limited edition "OrangeArt" enjoying touches of orange (around rims, headlights ...) will be proposed.