The real thing, an A35L owner was kicked out of the AMG car friend group, which was last year's incident.
In the past, the threshold of the AMG car friend group was very high, although the A45 of the year was the lowest grade, but it should not be said that the A45 of 500,000 landed also had the pure blood of AMG, everyone would only treat it as a little brother, not an outsider, an engineer a car a signature and A-level orthodox research and development of the performance version, on acceleration, design, pedigree, A45 although cheap, but also kept the bottom line.
In the end, Mercedes-Benz also spent a lot of energy on the A45, and the nobles are all part of AMG.
The newly launched A35L does have the furious attributes of AMG, such as a turbocharged engine with ultra-high horsepower, a performance of 5 seconds and a good sense of control, yes, these are indeed the inevitable attributes of steel guns, but there is still some distance from the former AMG.
How to evaluate whether it is really AMG, in fact, is to see whether Mercedes-Benz has intentions.
A35L this car may not be careful, in the eyes of more people this is a more entry-level performance car for the Chinese market, less signatures, more longer wheelbase, obviously to please Chinese consumers, although the pricing is still at 400,000 levels, but dealers have given a relatively large terminal price reduction space.
Of course, when it comes to product power, A35L still has AMG's strong genes in it.
For example, the strongest representative in the field of 2.0T engine is the A35L, which has a horsepower of up to 306Ps, torque directly hits 400 Nm, and the acceleration of 4.9 seconds is not powerful.
Another important reason for the disbelief of the A35L in this era is that there are too many cars that can run into 5 seconds at present, and Audi can run to this result with any S-class steel gun. The 4.8-second acceleration performance is also no worse than the A35L, and it has not wasted an AMG aura, not to mention those 300,000 electric vehicles, who can't run into 5 seconds and are embarrassed to say hello to people.
Obviously, in this day and age, no one would think how powerful it is to open an AMG, and if there is, it must be the obsession brought about by the high price of AMG and the large displacement and high horsepower turbo.
So, in fact, in the past, more people believed that AMG was not how strong the performance was, but in that era, the 5-second acceleration was a myth, and the internal combustion engine wanted to press the acceleration performance to this level very much considered the ability of engineers.
The reason why the A35L is not optimistic, and even refused to be recognized as a member of the AMG, is that in this era, the A35L has neither the luxury advantage brought by the high price nor the performance advantage.