the Mercedes before there really were faster Mercedes back before AMG and 20 turbo v8 this thing came out around the same time as the E30. e30 bmw m3 in the late 1980s it had a manual transmission and more power than the standard 190e and today I’m going to review it I’ve borrowed this 190e from a viewer here in the San Diego area and I’m gonna start with a very quick history lesson Now. now in the 1970s and the 1980s AMG and Mercedes were two separate companies AMG was Just.

just a tuning company that did their own thing they’d built their own stuff Mercedes and AMG didn’t start working together Until. until the early 1990s and Mercedes didn’t buy AMG until 1999 now before that when mercedes wanted to build a performance car they did so on their own and there are some very memorable mercedes performance cars from This. this period you had the 300 SEL 6.3 in the 1960s you had the 450sel 6.9 in the 1970s and in the early 90s Mercedes came out with the 500 easy that was codeveloped with Porsche and then there was this now the 190 II was the entrylevel mercedesbenz sedan Of.

of the 1980s in the early 1990s it was essentially the cclass before they started calling it the cclass and the 2.3 16 was the highperformance version so named because it was a 2.3 liter fourcylinder with 16 valves it Was.

was partially developed by British engineering firm Cosworth Now. now the 2.3