The Mercedes-Benz CLA has received a raft of new features for a new model year. The 2015 CLA gets updates in safety, comfort, infotainment, ambience, kit and output departments.
On the safety front, Collision Prevention Assist Plus extends the functions of Collision Prevention Assist with the addition of autonomous partial braking, which helps to reduce the risk of rear-end collisions. If a driver fails to act when the risk of a collision is detected, despite visual and audio warnings, the system will automatically trigger partial braking.
Attention Assist has been upgraded to operate within an extended speed range (60 to 200 km/h) and now uses a five-stage bar display to visualise the driver’s current attention level.
Malaysian-market CLA 200 dashboard; Light and Sight package is nice, small screen less so
The infotainment system has been updated with animated menus and visual representations, and there’s an optional eight-inch free-standing display, an inch larger than the previous biggest unit. Convenience Telephony is now LTE compatible, while the (now standard) Media Interface allows the connection of Apple devices via Apple Lightning. Keyless-Go appears on the options list.
The cabin’s ambient lighting now offers twelve selectable colours, while a satin-finish light brown poplar wood joins the trim list. Outside, AMG 19-inch multi-spoke light-alloy wheels, painted black and with a high-sheen finish, is now available.
No technical changes, except for the addition of 7 hp to the CLA 220 CDI, which now does 177 hp, 350 Nm, 0-100 km/h in 8.2 s, and 232 km/h max. The CLA 180 CDI’s emissions is now 99 g CO2/km.
As the Malaysian-market CLA is a CBU import, we expect to see some of these changes in future batches, although it all depends on the boxes ticked by the local product planning department. We’ve driven the petite but curvy CLA, and you can read our test drive report to learn more about the car.
2014 Mercedes-Benz CLA 200, Malaysian spec
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the front seat remind me of my old gen2 seats.
why people who are driving Proton always say other car are copying their car?? Is there really so much of good stuff that other brand need to copy from Proton?? or the other way round?
Ugly Ugly Ugly.. thats all i can say about this model
wonder why Mercedes always fall behind BMW in terms of power and performance
Mercedes and BMW they both are for rich people but different market segment, Mercedes is for rich Ah Pek, BMW is for rich gangster. Lexus try to be a Mercedes and Audi try to be a BMW but they both are just wannabe.
Can you elaborate which merc class is fall behind to BMW?I reckon both are on par if compare both class together.
You cant compare a m3 to an amg cla,since both are different class.
mercedes utilises v6 as their engines whereas BMW prefer straight sixes…the flat engine and v engine are both more efficient, powerful and better sounding than the v-engines…however, for what mercedes has achieved using v-engines…pretty good…still mercedes is aware of the many disadvantages of v-engines and they are looking towards returning to their straight-six engines like their good old 300E days…
Nowadays Beemer and Merc use turbo la, you live in cave?
yes…v6 turbo vs inline-six turbo….go learn how to use the internet…live outside cave laugh at people live in cave but sendiri dono the engine…bangau
Pity to those who bought this year, next year already has new features.
This car badly needed a gearbox tuneup rather than cosmetic changes…every single review u read complains of the slow unresponsive dual clutch…
aiyo the back is so ugly. It looks worse on the road. Purely ah beng with little bit of extra money will buy this car. The rear looks like a post accident repair flaws
Conti makers usually have new facelift models every average 5-6yrs…this model just launch less than 2yrs already have newer model coming out.
Those current owners sure curse & swear!