Pitting two identical cars against each other in a drag race wouldn't normally be considered an interesting idea, but when in one of the cars you put five-times DTM champion Bernd Schneider then you have something going.
That is precisely what the Brits from Recombu (Read Compare Buy) Cars did some time ago with two Mercedes-Benz A 45 AMG models.
In one of them they put Bernd Schneider, who is now also a Mercedes-Benz brand ambassador, and instructed him not use the launch control function of the bonkers hot hatch from Affalterbach.
In the other A 45 AMG they put “someone's mom”, who is apparently an older lady using a stick to walk, whom they taught how to use the car's launch control system and slip away from the drag line quite a bit faster than Bernd.
Needless to say, what at first seemed like a meaningless drag race turned out to be an epic video in which one of the A 45's best features (the dual clutch's launch control function, ed) became even more important in our eyes.
In one of them they put Bernd Schneider, who is now also a Mercedes-Benz brand ambassador, and instructed him not use the launch control function of the bonkers hot hatch from Affalterbach.
In the other A 45 AMG they put “someone's mom”, who is apparently an older lady using a stick to walk, whom they taught how to use the car's launch control system and slip away from the drag line quite a bit faster than Bernd.
Needless to say, what at first seemed like a meaningless drag race turned out to be an epic video in which one of the A 45's best features (the dual clutch's launch control function, ed) became even more important in our eyes.