This is the car I could possibly trade/sell for a Golf GTI Mk1/2. 1993 Mercedes-Benz 190E 1.8 Automatic (Chassis type W201). Factory specification, aside from the 500SL wheels/tyres and black-painted grille insert. Black/Black cloth interior, factory tinted glass. Very few made in this colour combination, almost every other Signal Red W201 I have seen has been 2-tone, ie darker on the bottom panels & bumper aprons. Daily driver, lives on the mean streets of London under several layers of AG / P21S.
I'm liking that Dont build them like they used to.... Had more rust on My C Class than my Astravan Am I right in thinking you're selling this to fund a MK2? Drop us a line with details if you are
I LURVE 190s. I'm annoyed at myself for not buying my dad's 2.0 16v one, ran sweet as a nut despite the 155k on the clock.
Would have been a 2.3-16 or 2.5-16. 2.0s had 8 valves only... Nice cars, very very tough indeed, and reasonable on parts (apart from bodywork!) My car pictured has covered 124,000 miles.
My 1.8 was run by my dad for 8 years before I bought it from him over 3 years ago, I know it inside out. It's got some go when you want it, and eats motorway miles for breakfast. Remains the lightest saloon car chassis ever built by Mercedes-Benz, and Martin Brundle's favourite DTM chassis. Chuckable, RWD, and bulletproof. If I buy another, it will be a 16-valve or 2.6 Sportline Manual.
Very nice mate, like them a lot, had a 2l that did 272k before i sold it! It was getting tired but had been a taxi in its first life, very good cars.
Cool! Incidentally, the dark 2.5-16 in the pics belongs to a friend. Made in 1989, has covered just 15,000 miles from new. Mercedes-Benz say they've never seen one so good, and borrowed it to promote the new C63 AMG, and display in MB World last summer.
A wee update. Got hold of a smoothed grille frame (no Star mascot) and coded it. But then, after running it on the same ber-heavy 16x8J rims for 3+ years, I felt like a change. Cue some lightweight Fuchs forged 16x7J numbers usually found on early CLKs, painted in Graphite Grey.
I dont like the grill with the red striping either, would like nice if it was all black imo, also you havent blured your numberplate in the first picture. Also I spotted this car driving around london when I was working up there last, I remember because of the plate,, you cut us up
When you paint the strips (which are usually Chrome) Black, it just turns the insert into this ugly expanse of mesh, really not nice. 2dubnick, my deepest apologies. You will not have recognised my car by the plate though, as only 3 of the characters in that picture are actually on my plate. The Clone Stamp is my friend!
only abit of banter about the cutting up, we were in a van and its london so everone cuts up everyone, I love it! Might not have been you but it was a very shiny merc with a very simular number plate to that, my first thought was actually you but thought it would be very unlikely.
Looks great in bright red especially when they're this clean but the grill doesn't do it for me, much prefer the chrome one, like the graphite wheels though
