The W124 was arguably last well built and reliable sedan to come from the mad scientists in Stuttgart with classy styling, interiors built to last, and simplicity in function that in future generations was replaced by a dizzying array of electronic gizmos that constantly fail. The basic W124 was a good fam/lux sedan, but the 500E […]
The Mercedes 500 series has been around in some sort of way since the 1970’s. These were premium cars with big boy V8 engines. Today’s piece covers car from as old as 1991 to as new as 2003 in the E, SL, CL, and SEC class of cars. Generally speaking, these Benzes suffer from pretty […]
When presented the choice of repairing a failed head gasket on the stock 3.2 engine or swapping in a C36 AMG engine, I chose the later. Neo in the Matrix chose the red pill and we have been down similar rabbit holes ever since. The 2.8, 3.2, and 3.6 Mercedes M104 straight six engines all […]
The W124 E-class was the Mercedes-Benz answer to BMW’s 5-series, but with the success of the E28 M5 and the upcoming E34 M5, the guys at Mercedes-Benz knew they had to respond with something fast. So, they did what any logical German would do and turned to Porsche and pleaded for help. The result was […]
In 1990 Stanley Kirk Burrell (also known as M.C. Hammer) released his Album Please hammer, Don’t Hurt ‘Em which featured his signature song U Can’t Touch This. Coincidentally this was the same year that Mercedes-Benz released their untouchable Hammer into the world, in the form of the 1991 through 1994 model year 500E. Find this […]
The W124 generation Mercedes-Benz 500E is one of those wolf in sheep’s clothing sleepers that will only be recognized by the sharpest of Border Collies. It seems, at least in SoCal, that the predominate drivers of the W124 for the past few years have been middle aged women, and while I hate to use the […]
The name Hammer had two popular connotations in 1990, one was a young rap artist with baggy pants and the other a young luxury sedan with fender flares. Each hammer was successful in the their prime- MC Hammer putting out the hit single “You Can’t Touch This” and the AMG Hammer putting out over 300 […]