It may be wearing the three-pointed star, but Stuttgart's other carmaker pieced it all together 👀
It’s difficult to see a future where Porsche would see any benefit in buddying up with a rival for, say, the purpose of building a performance car . But in the days before mega sellers like the Cayenne and Boxster, the company would occasionally team up with other German carmakers – long before they were competitors or cohorts – to lend out its sports car knowhow and earn a few Deutschemarks in the process.
The most obvious example is the Audi RS2, a car that Porsche made a very tangible contribution to – from upgrading the engine to peppering the exterior with bits and pieces from the 964 parts bin. But before it started work on the legendary super estate, Porsche was busy helping Mercedes put together a hot version of the W124 E-Class.
The car in question was the 500E, though later models were badged the E500 . The idea was simple and is one that Mercedes perfected in the coming years: take an E-Class, shove a massive V8 up front and, voila, you’ve got yourself a super saloon. Of course, AMG had been doing this for some time by the late 1980s, but at nowhere near the volume Mercedes had in mind. The 500E, meanwhile, would be an in-house project, with Mercedes supplying the parts while Porsche handled most of the assembly.
This car, however, was originally registered in Germany in 1994, before it was acquired by a British collector who imported it to the UK in 2000. It’s changed hands a few times since then, with the most recent owner being an avid German car collector. It’s covered 97,000km , with recent work including a replacement engine wiring loom which, according to the ad, is a bit of a weak spot on the E500.
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