Woops!! Gone and bought another red one!

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After a very quick tour of the dealerships, considering everything including a new M5, new RS6 etc I settled on a car i'd never even driven and haven't yet seen in this colour. A friend who runs the local MB dealership had literally just spec'd it up with all the trimmings as 'something different' to put in the showroom. As soon as i saw the mock up and some nice figures i thought 'yeah, why the hell not?'. A change is as good as anything. We agreed the deal and i got to drive a white one home as a tester.

I hadn't intended to drop down the capacity bracket by this much having had a C5 RS6, an M5 Tourer and a C63 as my last 3 cars but these little cars are bonkers fun. Even in standard guise they are nearly as quick as my tuned C63, but with more grip. Obviously i'll be picking up a stage 1 tune to fit when it arrives and when i do the car will be eating tuned C63's for breakfast. Stage 1 A45's are consistently knocking 0-60 times out in under 4s. 0-100 is in the mid 8's. And the sound it makes when you shift!!!! It's like and old school rally car!!

I'm quite excited by the change. The best thing is that it doesn't need a run in service so i can 'drive it' from the off. Win! Should be in the country some time this week and i'll pick it up as soon as it's prepped.




Eddie

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Got a tuning module arriving mid week so this will go straight in from the dealer as well as vbox being hard wired into the car. Hoping the car will be a usable track weapon as well as daily commute.

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hajaba123 said:

Congratulations!

How 'nice' were the figures Eddie? I didn't think that these were being discounted by much?

He gave me 100% of his allowance. Deal was in line with that of a base spec C63 given the options on my A45. Merc are trickle feeding these cars which will help me come sale time in 2016 / 17. My dealer is only getting 4 cars before next years reg allocation. I think that's what he said anyway.

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Probably wouldn't do it any good, but its a removable plug and play system so they wouldn't know.

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It's arrived. Just got to go through the system and i should be driving Fri / Sat:

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Butter Face said:

Crikey, that's not shy at all!!

Big shouty car with the big shouty performance exhaust option. Rebellion tune will be on it as soon as the 1000 mile marker is passed.

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Skyman said:

Nice for a four pot, but not a C63 regrettably.

Had one already. Fancied a change.

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Rebellion V2 map (arriving tomorrow) should see 0-60 in as low as 3.5s and 0-100 in as low as 8.5s with a hard launch. They are also putting out a TCU tune which could make it even quicker!!

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Bradders901 said:

At the AMG event at Spa I was up against an A45 in the drag race and the c63 was quicker noticeable, it was very dry so no real traction advantage for awd but later in the day around the handling circuit (bit like brooklands), the A45 was quickest of all the AMGs. Obviously driver could come into this but still. The A45 was just as quick as everyone else on the main circuit too.

Dunc

Picked my A45 up tonight. Vbox is hard wired into the car. Once run in ill be testing against what my stage 1 C63 could do. Only 950 miles of run in to go.

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tobinen said:

Spotted a red one yesterday as we were coming back from a camping trip in Swanage on the A31. Red, PistonHeads sticker and reg M5 E**

Turned off at the Little Chef

Yup, that was me. Hi!