Uploaded February 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
The electrified Mercedes-Benz CLA, offering next-generation of everything, from batteries to MB-OS supercomputer specs and artificial intelligence lurking behind the dash. Actually it’s lurking in the Mercedes-Benz ‘intelligent cloud’, but you get the idea.
It’s apparently the cleverest car Mercedes has ever made, but more practically it’s an electric Mercedes that offers monster range and conveniently rapid charging from a new NMC battery, and doesn’t look like a bar of lightly-used soap.
We’re talking 484 miles of WLTP range from 85kWh of usable cells, excellent efficiency across the board, a two-speed gearbox (more on that later) and the ability to ferret out the closest hipster coffee shop that serves matcha-latte but also allows dogs. This we will explain when we get to the Interior section.
While it launches initially as a fully electric car, a whole bunch of hybrids follow quickly to help obliterate any range anxiety still lingering from its monster range.
It just looks like a slightly swoopier CLA.
Which is kind of the point. This is Mercedes delivering change while not spooking the conservative horses. A mid-sized, four-door saloon with decent proportions and a slight obsession with stars. Look closely and they’re absolutely everywhere; the optional multibeam LED headlights have star-shaped running lights (standard ones have a chrome bit in a star shape), and the taillights are also starry, while the electric car’s nose features 142 individually animated stars for that Dubai-nighttime feel.
The combustion-engined hybrid has a more trad grille, but it still has a star. The interior has lots of stars – there’ll be a star-studded electrochromic glass roof in the forthcoming CLA Shooting Brake – and there’s the general feeling that maybe Merc got a bit carried away.
But still, it’s handsome enough in a slightly anonymous way. Offence would be hard to come by, but desire might also be a bit of an overstatement.
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The electrified Mercedes-Benz CLA, offering next-generation of everything, from batteries to MB-OS supercomputer specs and artificial intelligence lurking behind the dash. Actually it’s lurking in the Mercedes-Benz ‘intelligent cloud’, but you get the idea.
It’s apparently the cleverest car Mercedes has ever made, but more practically it’s an electric Mercedes that offers monster range and conveniently rapid charging from a new NMC battery, and doesn’t look like a bar of lightly-used soap.
We’re talking 484 miles of WLTP range from 85kWh of usable cells, excellent efficiency across the board, a two-speed gearbox (more on that later) and the ability to ferret out the closest hipster coffee shop that serves matcha-latte but also allows dogs. This we will explain when we get to the Interior section.
While it launches initially as a fully electric car, a whole bunch of hybrids follow quickly to help obliterate any range anxiety still lingering from its monster range.
It just looks like a slightly swoopier CLA.
Which is kind of the point. This is Mercedes delivering change while not spooking the conservative horses. A mid-sized, four-door saloon with decent proportions and a slight obsession with stars. Look closely and they’re absolutely everywhere; the optional multibeam LED headlights have star-shaped running lights (standard ones have a chrome bit in a star shape), and the taillights are also starry, while the electric car’s nose features 142 individually animated stars for that Dubai-nighttime feel.
The combustion-engined hybrid has a more trad grille, but it still has a star. The interior has lots of stars – there’ll be a star-studded electrochromic glass roof in the forthcoming CLA Shooting Brake – and there’s the general feeling that maybe Merc got a bit carried away.
But still, it’s handsome enough in a slightly anonymous way. Offence would be hard to come by, but desire might also be a bit of an overstatement.
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📌 Tiktok ▶ tiktok.com/@cartvpress
