Porsche vs. Mercedes 500E The Ultimate Performance Showdown

Mercedes provided body parts to Porsche, which assembled the body with additional parts it made. The body then went back to Mercedes for paint, ... Our 500E is a one-owner Miami car. It has a clean Carfax and is in excellent condition. There is a cult following for 500Es and there's a good reason for that. ... Porsche and Mercedes-Benz partnered to create the Mercedes-Benz 500E, a high-performance version of the W124 E-Class. Porsche adapted Mercedes ... The 500 E's performance was groundbreaking. With a standard four-speed automatic gearbox, it accelerated from 0 to 100 km/h in just 6.1 seconds. The body in white is shipped to Sindelfingen for painting because Porsche cannot duplicate Mercedes-Benz colors. The painted body goes back to ... Two of the best cars Porsche ever built weren't 911s. Hell, they weren't even Porsches. This is the story of how an Audi and a Mercedes-Benz ... Porsche explains what made the Mercedes-Benz 500 E such a special project to work on. The Mercedes-Benz 500 E became a collaboration project between the two sides of Stuttgart was a matter of size: the body of the car, which was 5.6 centimetres ... The W124 Mercedes 500E is a legendary Porsche developed sports saloon, but is the reputation it has justified? Here I look at the history ... The cars were made from 1991-1994 with the 1994 year switching the trunk badge from 500E to E500. These differences are pretty subtle.