Hey more of this please😊 thanks😊

As a BMW fan, I will also admit that this 190 evo is something very very special. I would like some more content like this one mate, thanks!

My parents had a lowered 190 with some mechanical issue making it shoot flames every so often. As a 7 year old I absolutely loved that car!

love the evo 2 wing

Vin was wrong, Mike isn't a big Ferrari guy... he is a big Mercedes guy now hehehe

@brianmclean3458

2 ай бұрын

Just a car guy deep down...very legit person

@sebastianeiselt37

2 ай бұрын

Reverse Hamilton

@0222tomi

2 ай бұрын

Gay

More of this please, Mike. Being a fan of all things automotive doesn’t necessarily mean sticking to one brand. Thanks for the tour!

@mndlessdrwer

2 ай бұрын

Being in love with a particular brand should not preclude the appreciation of others. BMW makes excellent cars, but they aren't the only ones and the 190E is a much nicer car to live with compared to the original M3.

@cjsawinski

2 ай бұрын

I think gear heads can appreciate the 80’s-90’s generation of cars. They all were analog for one. But you had all kinds of mechanical innovations going on from turbo charging, AWD, or even just a very simple lightweight chassis with a high revving NA inline 4. Modern cars from somewhere in the early 2000’s and on just don’t have the same character or will never be able to evoke the same emotion as something from the 80’s-90’s…

Had a couple of 190E - one with the evo seats. Fantastic to drive and sit in. Missing it to this day 😢

I agree.

4:45 breathtaking red color and appearance. Top notch video. I've got no DTM powertrain, still enjoy these videos. W201's may be old, but lack no soul. At all. ❤

I had a poster of Bernd Schneider's 190E DTM when i was a kid. Oh and a 6 foot poster of a Countach S.

The DTM version was absolutely iconic IMO. It looked wild.

Having just got into motorsports and cars I love this kind of look into the past. Seeing cars from past eras is so fucking cool.

I commented on the FCP video just yesterday about the fact that I just saw an Evo II at a show in Scottsdale last month. They are stunning.

Oooh that glimpse of the Alfa SZ 😍 But awesome episode Mike, loved it!

Love this episode 😎

I was working at a Mercedes-Benz only shop when the 190E debuted. We thought it was cheap and cheesy (it got better when the later 2.6 version arrived). But the game-changer was the 16 valve with that rev-happy engine, bigger brakes, amazing seats, and firmer suspension. Our shop foreman test drive one and said you could roll over a coin and tell what year it was. We were all disappointed when the Evolution didn't come stateside.

Win on Sunday- sell on Monday- Worked for the US automakers in NASCAR and worked for Mercedes in DTM. The 190 D was the classic family sedan and taxicab sold to the middle class in Germany.

I used to have a normal 190e and even that was really fun in the canyons around my house. The suspension was so good.

To quote Dave from Willomet Motor and Fab, "Your brand loyalty is holding you back." 190E Evo and Evo2 are iconic and amazing cars.

Such a beautiful car. I would love to turn back time and bring the spirit of DTM racing back on the racetracks and into the headquarters of big automotive manufacturers.

That rear window blockout also changes the angle of the airflow coming off the roof

Would love to see more content like this outside the shop projects!

I got a drive in my friend's father's Mercedes 190 2.3 16V Cosworth Series 1 in it's day. I knew I was in a special car and was actually interested in the noise it would make going through a tunnel. My friend's had never asked his father or shown any interest in any of his cars, so from that day on the father always stopped by my house to take me for a ride without his son and told me not to tell him ! I never did. It was a great car.

As I'm British, you could have mentioned a little company called cosworth engineering 🤷🏼‍♂️

@l3358

2 ай бұрын

The only reason the car was any good to begin with was the Cosworth influence

@griffins750

Ай бұрын

I mean compared to the rest of the story behind the 190E Cosworth's role was rather minor. Not to slight your country but there are better examples of sick British engineering throughout automotive history, like Lotus building a Corvette engine, or Lotus making a 90s Hellcat used to ram raid shops because the police couldn't catch it (talking of course about the Lotus Carlton).

@Justsaying12347

Ай бұрын

@@griffins750 agreed but still worth a mention. Cosworth made engines work properly winning margins aren't massive after all

I'm not even a big German car guy, but the Evo II is forever one of my dream cars.

NEED MORE OF THIS CONTENT PLEASE!!!

You should definitely do more episodes like this.

Mike getting his David Attenborough on and we all love to see it 👏👏👏

This is one of my all-time grail cars. Incredible.

Now that’s a beautiful machine! Absolutely stunning!

I had three 1986 190 e 2.3 16 valve dual overhead cam all five speed to stock one built to the nuts damn I wish I still had them

I would totally crap myself if I saw that car pass by. Such an icon and soo bad ass. I absolutely love this format btw and would love to see more!

Great production, wonderful VO

Been a true grey market fanatic of BMW & MBZ since '80s. Followed DTM since 80s. In late '80s, friends and I owned and drove M3's, MBZ 16v's, 2002 tii, Bauer Cabriolets...back in the Hartge BMW days,...the most unique and rare for me was and is the MBZ 16v. More people knew about BMWs, not as many knew what was up with the 16v MBZ. DTM for Life!! Nuthin but love for both, just personal fav. Enjoy all! Incredible vid! Thank you.

This is by far my favourite car ever. The sreet version is just perfect. I'm in the process of buying a small "baby benz" right now. Small enging, a little over 100 HP and perfectly shaped like every W201

I would love more videos of nerding out on old touring cars.

Great format, well edited, keep it up

One of my dream cars. 🫶

NEED MORE OF THESE!

I was a kid when I took a ride in an used 190e evo II for sale in the south of France. My brother is car guy and in the 90s he test drove a lot of sport car for sale in dealerships. He was broke but pretending to be interested, bringing our mother and his young brother was doing the job 😂. I have very limited memories of thoses cars (and bikes) but the evo II and he first generation STI are strong memories

Awesome video Mike please plenty more like this. Thanks

i'm down for more of this

I worked on a 190e Cosworth and I loved it

Awesome shapes , even today

Can't wait to see the Fueltech's 190 evo build when its ready.

The 190E Evo cars are also some of my favorites. It’s great to get your opinion on cars like this/of this vintage and I really like all the history that helps support the “why” of why this thing is cool.

190e! This video makes me miss mine so much

190e evo2 has a special in my heart

I'm happy I bought my 190E 2.3-16v in 2006 for $5,000 and still own it

I remember, as a kid, I had a huge poster on my wall of a 190E. The spectacular looks and its full name on the full width of the 1.5 meter wide poster: Mercedes 190E 2.5-16 Evolution II Next to BMW M3 that was quite the name. DTM stole my heart just like the 190E evo 2, M3, Alfa 155, Opel Calibra, etc. Nice video. Looking forward to more of this 👌🏻

That was a great video regards from Dominican Republic

I would love to see you do other in depth discussions of other vehicles like this, especially because you can bring your accrued fabrication and vehicle design expertise to the table.

Awesome would love to see more episodes like this

I had the Tamiya 4wd car of this and have always been a huge fan of it

You do you. I'm here for it.

Nicely done, Mike. The 2.5-16 Evo 2 is definitely a legend. I put it right next to the E28 M5 on my list of “lottery cars.”

Finally!!! A Merc on the channel! I got the 300E and 300CE.

One of the all time best and coolest. LOVE the 190E

Lets goooo 190E is so sick, a guy on my street owns one and it's a joy to look at.

@booblam6919

2 ай бұрын

That's great

Where I work has just finished a full nut n bolt restoration of a Mercedes 500E, it is quite a machine to be fair.

28 years ago my buddy worked three jobs as a teenager for 3 years to be able to afford a 190E cosworth. Which he purchased on his own. To this day that car is still my favorite car i have ever been a passenger in. Unfortunately he had to sell it when he wasnt able to afford to fix it. Which is a huge shame considering his father is a multimillionaire and refused to help my friend at all with the repairs.

What an era!

What a good ten minutes of the day!

As much as I love your take on shop videos, I am partial to the "history lesson" type format. Love this car and your vid did it justice! Would definitely like to see more content like this from you

Loved it, hearing about the history and the culture is great-definitely here for more

The 190E is my next dream build, DTM tribute would be soooo epic. Performance parts are hard to come by though, I hear

always loved this car. i will own one some day.

Starting to see alot of these vids for the Evo2. Still my DTM hero car.

Hell yeah more Mike inspects some cool car history!

Great video Mike, thanks for sharing this wonderful car.

Love this! Evo II is one of my favorite and all time bucket list vehicles 🔥 ❤

Beautiful car Mike. A dream garage would have to have one of these and an e30. I still have a t shirt from the Nurburgring from the DTM in about 1990!

190e 2.3-16 was originally destined for Group B and the spec race was a marketing effort to answer "what do we do now?" Notably, this was also Mercedes big, reluctant return to motorsport after their crash at Lemans withdrew them from motorsports indefinitely. It was a peg with no hole until it was homologated for group A. The w201 project cost Mercedes 3 billion to develop, a figure that was unheard of at the time.

As a life-long BMW fanatic, could not agree more with Mike on his assessment of the 190E Evo II. Such a super-cool machine. Love everything about it, except the fact I will never be able to afford one...lol.

Loved the video! More please!

You should do a 190E build

Love it. My family knew a few group A drivers in the day, and I recall is spending track time watching these great cars. Fyi, that es 30 in the background is my dream

Great episode! Always great content and perfect Camera work as always @aphamfilms

I loved getting a chance to see that - thanks!!

Those 18 inch OZ wheels on one of the cars are the dogs danglies!!!

Great choice of an iconic car

My profile picture says it all. I’ve had my 190E 2.6 for 3 years now and it’s a great daily driver. As a modern classic it’s very cheap to insure. I’m just waiting another 4 very long years before it’s ULEZ, CC & Road Tax free. BTW, the picture was taken on Christmas Day 2023, when I could roam London by cleaning the air without paying £12.50 😁.

I’m not a fan of the 3-Pointed DeathStar brand, but even I can admit the 190E Evo II is a car I’d love to have in my garage, it’s just so incredibly cool!

Love this episode. Well done

I love this type of content!

Mike U a to drive it! My uncle had one for many years and it was amazing to drive it.

Agreed- that this Evo2 is the cooler looking car. In period I kept flipping back and forth on the looks of the M and evo2; and remember seeing one on the street (probably it was some kind of grey market car). It was just wild and awesome looking to have cruise on the street in SF in the late 80’s.

time for a 190 project!!

I love E30’s. I had a champagne coloured 325!. I moved to Mercedes and haven’t looked back.

Ive always said, bolstered rear seats is a big flex

Do more like this. love it!!!

Please accept this comment as a reason to do more videos like this

W201s are definitely going to go up in value.

I have owned a couple E30’s over the years (never an M car though), and have always loved the 190e as well. I’m also a big Porsche snob (my dad raced Porsches for Club, SCCA, and even a little bit of IMSA) and always had a couple 911’s tucked away in the garage or barn. The main thing I would love about getting chance to own or even just drive a 190e is that gearbox!!! Can’t remember what car I had as a kid that had a dog leg but I lived it. The car was nothing special (might have even been an Saturn or something like that)…. But I LOVED the dog leg…

"E30 WHO" is a banger license plate on the evo I 😎

I like this format

Two neighborhoods over, someone had a 2.3 16V parked in their driveway for over a year. Didn't move, then we gone. They had 2 other newer daily driver Mercedes

Love this type of content

I like the video. I had a 1986 190e AMG.

Absolutely more of this, my dude! You're like Jason Cammisa and Anthony Esposito rolled up into only one guy.