MODEL TESTED: DS 4 PureTech 130 Performance Line+
PRICE: £33,355 POWERTRAIN: 1.2-litre 3cyl turbo petrol, 129bhp
THE car you see in these photos is a DS 4 E-Tense PHEV Performance Line+ that we’re running on our long-term test fleet. To get price and powertrain parity with the A-Class, the figures we use here are for the 1.2 PureTech petrol, which in Performance Line+ trim costs £33,355.
Tech highlights
WHILE the A-Class has a platform that is only used by a small selection of Mercedes models, such as the B-Class and CLA, the DS 4 shares its EMP2 underpinnings with a wider pool of mainstream models. The wheelbase of 2,675mm is almost identical to that of the Peugeot 308 and Vauxhall Grandland, yet EMP2 is also used in DS’s larger models, the DS7
