Mercedes-Benz A200 2017 Video Review

There’s a very good reason windscreens don’t have a wind-down option, and that’s because they’re there to stop things colliding, often at some considerable velocity, with your face. 

All of which is truly irrelevant when you’re part-way through an awkward sideways slide, and the driver’s side window has become your portal to the world outside. And side windows can be accidentally left down, inviting a harsh shower of snow and glass-shard ice into the car, and into your face.

The windows are just another thing to think about in the endless and ever-growing list of things to think about when you’re learning to drift on snow and ice. And it’s the one most easily forgotten. But only once.

Read the full Mercedes-AMG A45 2017 review.