New 469-Mile Range Mercedes CLA Shooting Brake EV Now On Sale In UK

Order books are now open for the electric estate car, priced from £47,750

Updated: 25 Nov 2025

Like your estate cars small and electric, but find that the MG5, Vauxhall Astra Sports Tourer and Peugeot e-308 SW aren’t quite posh enough? There’s good news for you, as the third-generation Mercedes CLA Shooting Brake is here, and it’s now on sale in the UK.

Pricing starts at £47,750, which gets you into the entry-level 250+. That gets a single rear axle motor, making 268bhp and 247lb ft, allowing it to hit 62mph in 6.8 seconds and top out at 130mph. Its real headline-grabbing figure is its range on the WLTP cycle – 469 miles. That’s not quite the quoted 484 miles achieved by the equivalent saloon that makes it the longest-range EV on sale in Britain (until BMW iX3s start arriving here), but it ain’t half bad.

Want a bit more poke? You’ll need the dual-motor CLA 350 4Matic, priced from £56,235. That ups power to 349bhp and torque to 380lb ft, dropping the 0-62mph run to 5.0 seconds, although top speed is the same 130mph as the single-motor car.

Peak range, meanwhile, drops a little to a quoted 454 miles. Both electric versions use the same 85kWh battery pack, which can charge at up to 320kW and claw back 193 miles of range in 10 minutes on such a charger.

First customer deliveries are set for Q1 2026, and both versions are about £2000 more than the saloon equivalents, and are offered in the same range of trims. A hybrid version will be coming too, though that’s not yet on sale. It’ll use the same 1.5-litre four-cylinder and electric motor combo as the saloon, though, so don’t expect any groundbreaking info when that arrives.

Inside, the Shooting Brake is entirely identical to the saloon except for the shape. That means it comes with Merc’s brand-new in-house operating system, which drives many screens. Go the whole hog with ticking option boxes and your dash can become a 38.25-inch wall of screen, broken up into three displays: a 10.25-inch instrument display for the driver, a central 14-inch infotainment screen for everyone and an extra 14-inch screen just to keep the front passenger happy.

Estate-ish stuff? Boot volume is 455 litres with the back seats up and 1290 litres with them down, both drops versus the old CLA Shooting Brake, although the new EV compensates with a 101-litre frunk. Standard-fit roof rails, meanwhile, can support up to 75kg of stuff.

Its party piece, though, is the optional panoramic glass roof. This not only comes with the usual UV protection and optional electrochromatic trickery we’ve come to expect from these things, but the glass itself features 158 integrated light modules, giving you a Rolls-Royce-style starry sky effect at night (although the stars here are of the three-pointed variety, natch). They light up in the same shade as the interior ambient lighting. One to entertain the dog in the boot with, then.

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