1992 Mercedes-Benz and Porsche briefly entered into a love affair

Mercedes-Benz 500E Photo

In 1992, Mercedes-Benz and Porsche briefly entered into a love affair that would aftermath one actual appropriate offspring: the Mercedes-Benz 500E. The car was to become the asperse of all cool sedans, packing a 5.0-liter V8 with a amazing (for the time) 322 application and 354 pound-feet of torque. Bolted to a four-speed automated gearbox, the agent could abscond the big four-door to 60 mph in a bald 6.1 seconds. Something tells us that those ability numbers were a little conservative. But area does Porsche appear in to this dance?

Germany's sportscar architect was amenable for alive the sheetmetal of the 500E into the appearance you see above. Those advantageous fender arches were all massaged into abode by the gurus at Porsche afore the anatomy was alien off to Mercedes-Benz for acrylic and final assembly. Once done, the accomplished kit and caboodle was alien aback to Porsche for final inspection. Needless to say, this was an abundantly bound assembly vehicle, with the two companies alone creating about 500 examples per year.

This accurate car has a admirable absolute of 587 afar on the clock, accepting spent the fair majority of its years tucked abroad in a museum. Bidding is at $35,200 with the assets not met and beneath than 8 hours to go as of writing.