LAST AUTO NEWS – MERCEDES’ SECRET GOLF RIVAL REVEALED
Last Auto account – Mercedes’ abstruse Golf battling appear Revamped A-Class has VW in its architect and will be accurately targeted at adolescent buyers.
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Plans for a hot new Mercedes are hatching out! This is the German firm’s beauteous backup for the A-Class – and it’s demography a big beat at Volkswagen’s Golf.
Auto Express has abstruse that the three-pointed brilliant is basic a new baby car to accouterment the Golf, Audi A3 and BMW 1-Series. The car is allotment of the affluence brand’s bid to abduct adolescent barter from its accomplished rivals.
Based on a new front-wheeldrive platform, the bunched auto will yield its architectonics cues from the F800 concept, which was appear at this year’s Geneva Motor Show.
Our absolute illustrations accord you the best abstraction of how the Golf-sized apparatus will look. And with a arresting grille, accurate LED headlights, added adventurous creases in its flanks and animated tail, it’s every inch the desirable, upmarket baby car. Expect both three and five-door models to be available, forth with a ambit of super-efficient petrol and agent engines with stop-start.
As able-bodied as its beautiful shape, the newcomer will avowal a better-quality berth than the Golf, added added abundance and safety. Prices will be higher, too, with sales alpha in 2012. The archetypal is acceptable to abrasion the A-Class badge, and will be one of four key cars to appear from Mercedes’ new front-wheel-drive architecture.
“In the next brace of years, we will barrage added cars area we don’t currently accept predecessors,” all-around sales and business bang-up Dr Joachim Schmidt told Auto Express. “Our accepted A-Class and B-Class will be replaced by a new belvedere for four absolutely altered cars defining new segments for Mercedes.”Â
Schmidt accepted these models would not resemble the accepted A-Class and B-Class. Their MPV acumen has appealed added to earlier drivers. The new Golf-rivalling A-Class is due in two years’ time, while a bunched high-roofed five-door B-Class with amalgam and electric options is slated for backward 2011.
In 2013, the quartet will be completed by a baby 4×4 or 2×4 ‘crossover’ to yield on BMW’s X1. Following the Geneva actualization of the F800 (see panel, opposite), there are aswell affairs for a baby four-door coupé, possibly badged BLS, which will aim to carbon the success of the beyond CLS.
“If you wish adolescent customers, you charge to accept a cast that is adult and sporty,” explained Schmidt. “The acumen we didn’t get this chump afore was, in my opinion, not a cast issue, but a artefact issue.”
And it doesn’t stop there. Mercedes is planning a added youth-focused archetypal to battling the accessible Audi A1 and BMW supermini. But this car is added acceptable to be badged as a Smart to alter the alarmingly panned and bootless four-door, four-seater ForFour.
It will be congenital on the aforementioned rear-wheel-drive belvedere as Renault’s groundbreaking Twizy electric model, as allotment of the contempo baby car amalgamation appear amid the two car giants. The new ambit aims to lower the boilerplate age of Mercedes’ chump contour – 45 years old in the US and 55 in Germany – after alienating earlier customers.
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