Exotic Cars on the Street

LabelKing · Aug 14, 2008

The Porsche-collaboration 500E:

Huntsman · Aug 15, 2008

Originally Posted by culverwood

Exotic enough?

Street or track? A T1 is seriously uncommon...

fritzl · Aug 15, 2008

Originally Posted by LabelKing

The Porsche-collaboration 500E:

Are you sure this was a collaboration with Porsche? I loved the car, when it came out. Niki Lauda was one of the first owners and he loved his and the successors.

LabelKing · Aug 15, 2008

Originally Posted by fritzl

Are you sure this was a collaboration with Porsche? I loved the car, when it came out.

Niki Lauda was one of the first owners and he loved his and the successors.

The 500E was Mercedes's response to the BMW M5. They collaborated with Porsche in the production, the car being wheeled back and forth from the Benz and Porsche factories--apparently it took 18 days to finish one car.

culverwood · Aug 15, 2008

Originally Posted by Huntsman

Street or track? A T1 is seriously uncommon...

Goodwood - so half and half

fritzl · Aug 15, 2008

Originally Posted by LabelKing

The 500E was Mercedes's response to the BMW M5. They collaborated with Porsche in the production, the car being wheeled back and forth from the Benz and Porsche factories--apparently it took 18 days to finish one car.

LK, interesting information. I cannot recall the involvement of Porsche in this project.

The E500 was not available with stick-shifting. So the MB might have been an answer to the M5, but dedicated to a quite different target group.

It was much more their response to the Image of the W124. Farmers and cab drivers with a 200D.

It was meant to be the "Wolf im Schafspelz". The first series was a look alike of the lame brothers. Only experts could identify the fenders and air intakes.

RJman · Aug 15, 2008

Originally Posted by fritzl

"Wolf im Schafspelz".
Wolf in sheep's clothing?

Brad · Aug 15, 2008

Originally Posted by RJman

Wolf in sheep's clothing?

I think fritzl means that E class sedans meant to compete with BMW's M series have always been sleepers.

Dragon · Aug 15, 2008

For some reason a lot of people around me have the 500E (I can think of 3 right now that drive one regularly). They say it is one of the best Mercedes made, and they refuse to switch to the newer models with inferior build quality.

fritzl · Aug 15, 2008

Originally Posted by Brad

I think fritzl means that E class sedans meant to compete with BMW's M series have always been sleepers.

No

But there were people in Germany, mainly entrepreneurs, who wanted a car from MB, that looks like a 200D cab, with the power of a i.e. Porsche.

So they could spend their money and the average Joe(employee) wouldn't recognize, that "his" car is twice or triple prized.

Brad · Aug 15, 2008

Originally Posted by fritzl

No

But there were people in Germany, mainly entrepreneurs, who wanted a car from MB, that looks like a 200D cab, with the power of a i.e. Porsche.

So they could spend their money and the average Joe(employee) wouldn't recognize, that "his" car is twice or triple prized.

That's what I mean by a sleeper.

fritzl · Aug 15, 2008

Originally Posted by Brad

That's what I mean by a sleeper.

Unfortunately, I didn't use urband for the correct translation. You got me on this.

Brad · Aug 15, 2008

Originally Posted by fritzl

Unfortunately, I didn't use urband for the correct translation. You got me on this.

Alles klar!

LabelKing · Aug 15, 2008

Originally Posted by fritzl

No

But there were people in Germany, mainly entrepreneurs, who wanted a car from MB, that looks like a 200D cab, with the power of a i.e. Porsche. So they could spend their money and the average Joe(employee) wouldn't recognize, that "his" car is twice or triple prized.
I see it as similar to the earlier 300SEL 6.3 and the 450SEL 6.9--4 door cars that are generally indistinguishable other than a small trunk badge. The other fast sleeper was the 450SLC 5.0 and the later 500SLC, which looked like an elongated R107 convertible series.

whacked · Aug 15, 2008

No idea how exotic/rare this thing is, but it looks nice to my (uneducated) eyes.

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