That's a non North America spec show-car, my friend! Manual transmission...
They used such at the Detroit NAIAS. In'fact the auto-journalist is merely highlighting what's not on this exact CLA that he's sitting in, such as no auto climate-control, no power-seat, etc. These are likely gonna be offered in North America, whether standard (driver's power-seat w/ memory-settings) or optional (auto climate-control as part of the
Premium package). He even iterated that it's not out yet what the U.S. version will get & not get w/ regards to these things (meaning he/himself doesn't know). Likely, he hadn't spoken to anyone who knew anything. It was widely purported during the event what's coming & what's not coming.
Whew... now I can goto sleep tonite w/o gastritis, ha!
No, wait- got to finish that work project & new learning/training module... grrr!
