Random Snap>>flying Benz

I was trawling through the excellent Mercedes Benz Press site when I stumbled across this crazy shot. Well why not share it?

It shows Ellen Lohr somewhere on the Nordschleife back in June 1993. She is driving a AMG-Mercedes 190E

Why was I trawling in the Mercedes site? Well pay attention and you will see shortly.

John Brooks

Image Courtesy of and Copyright Daimler Benz.

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1

You can see it in action in this great DTM vid, pretty sure it has the exact same shot.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gw-AxiVqihM&feature=fvw

2

Gorgeous.

3

I remember those crazy days of DTM racing well. Back on the old Speedvision channel when you could see a variety of racing, before NASCAR and game shows took it over.

4

The video that daima posted really gave me goosebumps....the song the cars,the action made me think of old days....

5

Golden era ....

6

that video is amazing, thanks for the link. makes me want to put the evo2 kit on my 190e and go mangle some FIA curbing haha

7

Oh! What a beautiful picture of a beautiful car... Please put it in Desktops! Thanks!

8

should do an article on the benz 190e, bad ass car with deep racing roots. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gw-AxiVqihM

9

best touring car series ever...late 80s to early 90s DTM... so cool

10

The old Mercedes Benz. When they used to "over-engineer" their cars and not build SUVs. Oh I miss you so.

11

hmmm!! they did a Cosworth version of this car remember that?? the 190E is most def. a classic..

12

Awesome. Btw, that video that DaiMa posted, on 4:24, it's a DTM Mustang!

13

makes me wana drive hard. makes me want to feel airborne. NOW!

14

That's Phlangarten 2.

15

and my spelling is awful today.

16

This picture shows the great history of the DTM and why BMW really needs to be in the sport. A 4 door M3 would be perfect. Just imagine a Schnitzer colored car appearing on the grid alongside one with Alpina green.



Magic.

17

I freaking live, eat, breath the old original DTM series. I'm seriously obsessed with it. You should see my room.. it's littered with 1/18 scale models of BMW E30 M3's, Mercedes-Benz 190E's, Alfa Romeo 155's, Audi V8's, and Ford Sierra Cosworth's. My walls.. oh my walls are lined with pictures and posters of old DTM and Group-A touring cars. In fact, I have a large poster of Ellen Lohr and Keke Rosberg standing next to this car's sister car (it was the one Keke drove) dressed in the same Berlin 2000 livery. On my dresser, I have a 1/43 Minichamps model of this exact car. That is, Ellen Lohr's AMG 190E Klasse 1. This really was the golden era of DTM. The newly revived DTM series can't hold a candle to what the original offered. There is something special about touring cars that so closely resemble their road going counterparts. And that is exactly what touring cars were back in the late 80's and early 90's under the FIA's Group-A homologation laws. Although rare, you can still find and buy a Mercedes-Benz 190E EVO II over in Europe. Unfortunately, they never made is state-side. But its legendary rival (the BMW E30 M3) did. These were real driver's cars in their purest form.. not littered down by the traction control, driving aids, and hefty weight from "luxury items" you find on today's European performance cars. Yes, this is an era truly gone by and one I fear we'll never see again. But it's quite fun to look back on the old days and remember them fondly.

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