Mercedes-AMG A 45 S Final Edition Priced From £67,965 as Send-Off Special

Mercedes-AMG has put a send-off special on sale for its hardest-hitting hot hatch. The A 45 S 4MATIC+ “Final Edition” costs £67,965 in the UK and is available to order now, dressed in a matte grey paint finish and yellow accents that mark the end of the current car’s run.

What Sets the Final Edition Apart

The special edition wears MANUFAKTUR mountain grey magno paint with dark chrome door handles, matte-black 19-inch AMG forged wheels and yellow-logo wheel hub covers. Brake callipers behind those wheels come painted gloss black with white “AMG” lettering, and large “45 S” decals in yellow and black run across the front doors. Mercedes-AMG has bundled in its Night Package and Night Package II as standard, adding high-gloss black trim across the mirror housings, tailpipe surrounds, radiator grille louvres and model badges.

A wind-tunnel-developed AMG Aerodynamics Package comes fitted as standard too: a larger front splitter with additional black flics, a high-gloss black roof spoiler, airflow separation edges around the rear apron’s air outlets, and a black diffuser blade. Mercedes-AMG says the package is there for genuine driving stability at high speed, not just visual effect.

Still the Most Powerful Four-Cylinder in Series Production

Underneath the special paint, the Final Edition runs the same drivetrain that made the A 45 S 4MATIC+ the benchmark of the class. The 2.0-litre four-cylinder turbo, hand-assembled at Mercedes-AMG’s Affalterbach engine plant under the brand’s “One Man, One Engine” principle, produces 421hp and 500Nm of torque, officially the most powerful series-production four-cylinder engine on sale. Mercedes-AMG quotes 0-62mph in 3.9 seconds and an electronically limited top speed of 168mph, delivered through an eight-speed dual-clutch transmission and a fully variable all-wheel-drive system that can shuffle power side to side across the rear axle.

Yellow Stitching Inside, Too

Inside, AMG Performance seats trimmed in ARTICO man-made leather and MICROCUT microfibre carry yellow contrast stitching and embroidered “45 S” badging on the head restraints, plus a “45 S Final Edition” emblem on the centre console. The steering wheel, door sills and floor mats all pick up the same yellow detailing, matched with aluminium trim finished in an AMG-specific pattern.

Part of a Bigger Anniversary Push

Mercedes-Benz is marking 140 years of history dating back to Carl Benz’s original patent for the automobile with a year-long “140 Years of Innovation” campaign, including three S-Class saloons driving to 140 locations across six continents through October. The A 45 S Final Edition arrives inside that same window, giving Mercedes-AMG a natural moment to send off the current hot hatch with a flourish rather than letting it quietly drop from price lists when the next generation lands.

Official fuel and emissions figures for the Final Edition sit at 9.0 to 9.2 litres per 100km combined, with CO2 emissions of 205 to 209g/km, placing it in the G2 CO2 band. Those figures come from the WLTP test procedure and, as with any performance model in this class, will vary with driving style and options fitted.

A Premium for a Send-Off, Not a New Car

At £67,965, the Final Edition costs roughly £2,500 more than a standard A 45 S 4MATIC+, which currently starts at £65,465, for a paint job, wheel finish and equipment package rather than any change to the engine or chassis. That still leaves it under an Audi RS3 Sportback, which starts from £61,975 and climbs past £70,000 once options like ceramic brakes are added, putting the two rivals within a few thousand pounds of each other depending on specification. Mercedes-AMG has not confirmed what replaces the A 45 S, but “Final Edition” special models in this segment have typically preceded either a generation change or a shift toward electrified power, and buyers who want this specific combustion-engined hot hatch in this exact specification now know the order books won’t stay open indefinitely. Mercedes-Benz has already put electrified compact models on sale elsewhere in the range, and with the redesigned GLA set to arrive with fully electric powertrains from 2027, the pressure on a four-cylinder turbo hatchback like the A-Class range to keep its combustion engine is only going to grow. A special edition timed to a 140-year company anniversary is as clear a signal as a car maker gives without an outright announcement.

For existing A 45 S owners, the Final Edition also sets a marker for used values: special editions with fixed production numbers tend to hold their price better than standard cars once a model line ends, and Mercedes-AMG has not stated how many Final Edition cars it plans to build for the UK. Buyers who want one will need to order through a dealer rather than wait for one to turn up on a forecourt: the specification is fixed and cannot be built to individual order in the way a standard A 45 S can.