BMW is closing in on the released of the upcoming 1 Series Sedan, the car’s first switch to front-wheel drive. Along with the global release of the front-drive 1 Series, the Mercedes-Benz A-Class will be debuting as well, to compete with BMW’s newest small sedan. While not much is known about the A-Class just yet, Mercedes has recently revealed what its cabin will look like and it’s very impressive.
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Before seeing it, you might expect it to look impressive for a small, affordable car from a premium brand. After all, the current A-Class and CLA-Class are nice on the inside but are lacking in material quality and design. This new A-Class, though, has a cabin whose design would be impressive in a C-Class or even higher on the food chain. It’s quite stunning, actually.
Mercedes has been very smart with its interiors, these past few years. It started with the S-Class, debuting a cabin that shocked the world with luxury and technology that made Bentleys look boring. From there, Mercedes has sort of trickled the design and luxury down into cars like the E-Class and C-Class. So they all look far more premium than their prices would suggest. That same theme has carried over to the A-Class.
With similar turbine air vents, dual dashboard screens and enough ambient lighting to make a Vegas club blush, the new A-Class cabin looks as if it’s been plucked from an S-Class and then shrunk a bit. It really has a much more expensive design than you’d expect to come from Mercedes’ cheapest car.
Admittedly, Mercedes is bringing the A-Class a bit more upmarket than it’s previously been. So it makes sense to upgrade the interior luxury and tech. However, it’s still a car that’s being designed to compete with cars like the 1 Series and Audi A3.
We’ve seen the 1 Series Sedan’s interior and, while nice, it doesn’t stack up to this A-Class’ design. We can’t comment on material quality, so that may vary. However, as far as design goes, the A-Class will have the nicest premium small car cabin on the market.
Video arcade.
Damn that looks good.
I do not like iT
Mercedes Benz had been on a roll lately. They just running away from all the competition.
In the wrong direction.
Economy cars.
It’s the dumb ass BMW which became economy. Mercedes-Benz is in a league of its own and is pure luxury. Next time think twice before making such unsound comments.
BMW came back from bankruptcy on 4 cyl., thus their 4 cyl. HQ. Mercedes have regained sales crown going down market with 4 cyl. fwd. hatchbacks & compacts, segments they have NEVER competed in. Japanese are selling rebadged Mercedes. Since when is a pick-up truck “pure luxury”?
BMW NEED NEW INTERIOR DESIGNED ASAP!!!!
Check the Z4 & 8 Series Concepts.
Awesome! 👏
Not sure whether i like so many screens but rest of the interiors have definitely progressed and evolved significantly . Enough to be considered altogether new.
Thats how the progress is made, BMW. Your interiors feels stuck in the era when cassette players were still in fashion. Take a note of this.
iDrive does not play cassettes.
100% agreed. BMW will never come close to Mercedes-Benz. BMW is dumb ass forever.
Looks like E class had sex with A3…stunning…
Whereas a Panamera looks like the E class had anal sex…not so stunning…
This is so funny, people (die hardcore fans) are complaining that BMW is loosing its roots with FWD and blablabla. BMW is still keeping its traditional and very functional/usable design in the interior and has the perfect system with iDrive.
What do you want? Do you want fancy useless sh*t like this or do you want a perfect working BMW?
Totally agree, some people critique BMW for not having a “look at me” interior design but fail to realize that not only is it most of the time more user-friendly, but that classic BMW look that’s been kept through the years make the car age better
It looks much too much like a video game to me as far as the dashboard is concerned. The rest of the Interior would have to be absolutely stunning for me to tolerate that.
Where do I insert my coins?
Will it do laundry?
This is probably their biggest asset in interior design right now, the perception of quality. Their design language is focused on making the cabin look as expensive as possible. That makes a big difference because BMW is focused on ergonomics and Audi just likes to keep it clean. So naturally, the first impression will be better for the Merc
I’d wait to actually feel it to conclude that it’s a better interior than the A3 or the next 1 Series, because you don’t only look at a car’s interior: you live with it.
I agree that Mercedes’ often have an all-flash-no-substance vibe inside. The E-Class is a great example. Far better looking than 5 Series on the inside but the 5er’s quality is much better. There are some cheap materials in unacceptable places in the E-Class.
But it’s sort of okay for cheap materials to be present in the A-Class. The fact that such an affordable car will have this nice looking of a cabin is what’s so impressive.
Is it really if the A3 and the 1 Series have higher quality easier to live with interiors ?
That’s for the customer to decide. If someone prefers the BMW or Audi’s more simple and smart Interior, that’s fine. If someone likes the flash of the Benz, that’s fine too. It’s just nice to see something so visually interesting in this segmet.
A4 looks like they attempted to clone iDrive, A3 has pop-up, no stack. BMW’s most recent innovations are HUD & gesture, which can’t even be seen in pix.
its a shame here in the UK normal people dont even care how it drives they just like how the exterior and interior looks and they will buy it. I can tell this A class has cheap materials and the pics shown are top spec but normal people wont know that they will see this pic on instagram and be like Omg my next car!! If the A class cabin is like this i expect the C class cabin to get a revamp too. Hopefully BMW will have a nice interior on the new 1 and 3 series
I thought we in the US were the only ones like that :) to be honest, that’s most customers these days, probably around the world.
Jesus Christ that looks good.
Sooo beautiful, sooo nice. Much more beautiful than even the flagship of bmw – dumb ass 7 series. I wouldn’t even like to mention the king S-Class, which is in a league of its own.
Another proof that Mercedes-Benz is one step ahead of competition (in case of dumb ass BMW, several steps ahead). Watch and learn, stupid BMW, though you’ll never learn and you’ll always stay dumb ass.