[CJFink]

Couldn't believe my eyes when I wandered into the Mercedes Benz display - a CLA was prominently displayed. One of the sales reps said it surprised them by showing up. What a gorgeous car in person!

Carl

 

[JoeyO]

Cool beans. Sheesh, Polar Silver looks nice. I can't decide about my color.

JCFink, if you're there again, ask them for details about what is exactly coming to North America in September.

 

[JoeyO]

Hey, why is nobody else looking at it? Gosh darn Texans. If it ain't a pickup truck, they're not interested ;-)

 

[chrisiden]

CJFink, nice first post for us here and Welcome to the forum :+)

 

[chrisiden]

i found us all a short Vid of the car that CJFink found us:haha:

 

[CJFink]

More pics from Dallas Auto Show

JoeyO - it had quite a bit of traffic around it - lots of folks seemed interested. It was up on a display by itself - couldn't get in it or really crowd around it. That said, one of the salesmen did get in to show how much room is in the car. This guy said he's 6' 4".

Back seats looked nice, too.

More photos...

 

[osiris_x11]

Nut Brown leather interior. Power/memory seats. Me happy...

 

[flyingandi]

Ist the car white or polarsilver?

 

[CJFink]

Ist the car white or polarsilver?

It's Polar Silver.

 

[Airmousam]

Thats great, thanks!! Dont undertand why they wont let you get in. That silver looks great

 

[Mike T]

Beautiful photos, and the brown leather is very nice.

 

[Airmousam]

Making me rethink my color choice. Thought i had settled on mountain gray, but that silver:in love: hope they have both at the NYC show

 

[Jceo22]

I'll see you there in NYC

 

[max pl]

i hope that brown leather is available on the amg. if alcantara isnt that is.

 

[dascrow]

Nice, I was really hoping to make it up there last week but just couldn't find the time. Hopefully we'll see the CLA @ the Austin Auto Show next month.

 

[max pl]

i hope that brown leather is available on the amg. if alcantara isnt that is.

actually, nvm.
i now hope that the cla45 gets the same interior the a45 has. carbon fiber, sweet looking alcantara-ish seats.

cant wait til next week for the announcement.

 

[osiris_x11]

actually, nvm... i now hope that the cla45 gets the same interior as the a45 has. carbon fiber, sweet looking alcantara-ish seats... cant wait til next week for the announcement.]

That gear-shift (being an automatic transmission) is new-to-me, I haven't seen that before. I wonder if that's gonna be exclusive to the CLA45 AMG?

And those seats look fab'. Wow...

 

[max pl]

nah, i think some of their higher end sedans actually use that gear shift too.

 

[osiris_x11]

nah, i think some of their higher end sedans actually use that gear shift too.

Oh, I meant if it's going to be exclusive to just the CLA45 AMG version of the CLA meaning the (automatic) CLA250 won't have such a gear-shift.

All the pics so far have shown a steering-column mounted gear-shift for the (automatic) CLA.

The E-Class & CLS platforms (likewise w/ the SLS AMG, and others) have that type of gear-shift in the aforementioned image. Looks very cool, admittedly.

 

[max pl]

yeh i think the column mounted shifter will be used for the lower end cars and this one will be used in the amg.

i personally think the column mounted ones are a good design as it leaves more space for phone/drink storage in the center. this shifter is nice as well though so i'd be happy with either.