Mercedes-Benz CLA 200 d

The smallest Merc sedan in the country joins our fleet.

- Aniruddha Rangnekar

FROM THE MOMENT THE current generation A-Class concept broke cover, Mercedes made it clear that here was a car to bring down the average age of the Mercedes buyer – and so in the spirit of things, the editor let me have the CLA for its first month on our fleet (though I suspect that’s because he was having a whale of a time in the G 63 AMG). It’s based on the same platform as the A-Class but with its swooping roof line it looks anything but a booted hatch. It is a four-door coupe, a segment pioneered by the CLS all those years ago, and I have to admit the CLA looks damn sexy. Beneath those head-turning lines you have a range of engines and trims,