It was launched at the Geneva Motor Show. The A-Class was facelifted in February 2001, with minor alterations to the headlights, front and rear bumper design and the addition of a new 170 mm (6.7 in) longer wheelbase version. Overall, Daimler lost €1,440 per vehicle produced. īetween 19, 1.1 million first generation A-Class models had been sold. The final design freeze occurred in January 1995, at 32 months before August 1997 start of production. Concurrent to the W168, he designed the exterior of the W220 S-Class. Earlier, Mattin had mostly worked on design for the W210 E-Class in 1991. This was the first complete exterior designed by Coventry University trained Steve Mattin, for which he was named Autocar magazine's 'Designer of the Year'. The A-Class was first revealed to the motoring press late in 1996, and finally launched at the Frankfurt Motor Show in the autumn of 1997, the W168 A-Class was quite unusual for Mercedes-Benz featuring a front-wheel drive layout and unusual tall but yet short body and Advantgarde at the 1999 Geneva Motor Show and 1999 Frankfurt Motor Show. In 1994, Mercedes-Benz confirmed that it would be launching a compact car - the A-Class (A 160) - by early 1997, and (A 190) by early 1999, which would be the company's first venture in this sector of the market it was hinted at this stage that the new car would be shorter than the average supermini but as spacious and practical inside as a large family car.

The A-Class is sometimes referred to colloquially as the 'Baby Benz', a term also used for the 1982 Mercedes 190 (W201), Mercedes' first compact executive car model. Having grown by 68 cm (27 in) since the original model, the 2012 third generation A-class was longer than the first-generation B-class. Originally manufactured as a five-door hatchback in 1997, the second generation W169 introduced a three-door hatchback. This fourth generation A-Class is also the first to be offered both as a hatchback (W177) and sedan (V177).

The fourth generation model (W177), which was launched in 2018, marked the first time the A-Class was offered in the United States and Canada. The first generation (internally coded W168) was introduced in 1997, the second generation (W169) in late 2004 and the third generation (W176) in 2012. The Mercedes-Benz A-Class is a subcompact car produced by the German automobile manufacturer Mercedes-Benz as the brand's entry-level vehicle.

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