A quick Drive & Sound with an optimized Mercedes-Benz A45 AMG by German AMG specialist Perfommaster (www.performmaster.de). This particular car is updated with their PEC-module delivering a whopping 410 hp and up to 530 Nm of torque and runs up to 280 km/h. Unfortunately we weren't able to do our regular 0-250 run in order to test the performance but that one might follow later in the year. Overall the time to 100 km/h is quite reasonable but has been greatly influenced by the huge 20 inch winter tires which cost a lot of power and traction. Further circumstances are the "pre-facelift" model which doesn't have the fastest shifting. Nevertheless I found this particular setup a lot more convincing than the 2014 CLA 45 I drove 2 years ago, the performmaster updated engine revs up faster and throws in the gears more sporty...