Mercedes-Benz E 320 Cabriolet - Stiff breeze
Summary
The engineers in Stuttgart went to immense lengths to make the open-top W 124 as stable as the closed models. When the Cabriolet finally appeared in 1991, the model series was already seven years old. But it was worth the wait. Our article explains why.
This article contains the following chapters
- Add to omit
- High price, high revs
- Ordinary rarity
Estimated reading time: 5min
Preview (beginning of the article)
The IAA 1991 was actually not short of innovations and world premieres. Volkswagen unveiled the third generation of the Golf. BMW presented the E34 Touring, the first estate car based on the five-seater. Audi presented the Quattro Spyder. With the Escort RS Cosworth, Ford had brought one of the hottest compact cars of the coming decade to Frankfurt. And yet a seven-year-old car was one of the biggest attractions at the exhibition. The Mercedes-Benz 124 model series had already been on the market since 1984. The following year, the saloon was joined by the estate. The Coupé was added to the range in 1987, until the Cabriolet finally completed the model range four years later. The fact that the open-top version was so long in coming was partly due to the fact that it was not originally planned. Instead, a 190 E Cabriolet was supposed to compete with the open-top BMW three. However, this could no longer be realized in the usual Mercedes quality until the anticipated end of the "Baby Benz" in 1993.
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