This is the 190E 2.3-16 I still have, ten years later. This was a riot, but #BTS the whole thing got screwed up.

See, this was supposed to be a video (and a Motor Trend Classic story) of BMW vs Mercedes on even footing: 2.3-liter early cars.

The German magazine Auto Motor + Sport was simultaneously doing the same story, but M3 Sport Evo vs Merc Evo II — i.e. the final variants.

In a perfect display of how magazine Art Directors need to be handcuffed, AMS' art director insisted that he wanted BMW Museum's red E30, even though it was the early 2.3. And somehow he won the battle. Which meant both stories got screwed up: they had early BMW vs late Mercedes, and I had the other way around.

I was livid. I can only hope their writer was also livid. And the art director died a lonely death. (And I'm definitely not bitter.)

But hey, I bought a Benz. Still have it. Still love it. And it's still the (far) better car. Unpopular opinion: the E30 M3 is a terrible car.

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