RE: SUV Oddity: The Mercedes 190E 'Crossover'

RE: SUV Oddity: The Mercedes 190E 'Crossover'

Tuesday 21st December 2010

SUV Oddity: The Mercedes 190E 'Crossover'

Yes, it is fully as weird as it sounds...



If you thought that the Mini Paceman thingummy was a bit of an abomination, then odds are you are not going to like this Mercedes.

The Russian owner of this car obviously liked the idea of the crossover SUV so much that they decided to turn their Mercedes 190E into one.

The result has been dubbed the '90E' (see what they did there?) and the recipe appears to be a simple one.

Take one Mercedes 190E and chop the rear end off. Next you raise the ride height and fit some chunky alloys (possibly from a W124 E-class), before bunging on a pair of rear lights from a 1990s S-class


Finally, garnish with bull bars made from curiously thick tubing, and finish the whole lot in a paint job that manages to be matt and shiny at the same time (although we suppose that the car could have had more than one paint job over time - but that would be boring), et voila.

The result may not be to all tastes, but there is a curious appeal to it - and more than a whiff of VW Golf Country (see right). There's only one problem: as far as we're aware, the Mercedes 190E was never made in four-wheel drive...







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Ray Luxury-Yacht

Original Poster:

8,910 posts

215 months

Tuesday 21st December 2010
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I love the repeater indicator guards on the wings...

g7jhp

6,959 posts

237 months

Tuesday 21st December 2010
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That looks like a Hammerite paint job!

mk1chopper

56 posts

173 months

Tuesday 21st December 2010
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looks like a renault 21 with the boot chopped off

AV12

5,305 posts

207 months

Tuesday 21st December 2010
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Garlick

40,601 posts

239 months

Tuesday 21st December 2010
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cry

soad

32,829 posts

175 months

Tuesday 21st December 2010
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Well well well... Those crazy russians redcard

Steamer

13,843 posts

212 months

Tuesday 21st December 2010
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Please dont say it was a Cosworth, Please dont say it was a Cosworth, Please dont say it was a Cosworth, Please dont say it was a Cosworth, Please dont say it was a Cosworth, Please dont say it was a Cosworth!!!...

...one good point: at least nobody will be able to 'key-it' with that speedline style paintwork!

Oddball RS

1,757 posts

217 months

Tuesday 21st December 2010
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Different, but hey you never know they somehow manage to sell those minis!

BeeRoad

684 posts

161 months

Tuesday 21st December 2010
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Has he run over some scaffolding?

iva cosworth

44,044 posts

162 months

Tuesday 21st December 2010
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Thats wierd ,there was a real 4WD 190E posted yesterday

[converted Hilux or summat]nuts

Johnpidge

588 posts

188 months

Tuesday 21st December 2010
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g7jhp said:
That looks like a Hammerite paint job!
laugh

anything fast

983 posts

163 months

Tuesday 21st December 2010
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the back end actually looks OK!! i think that would actualy look cool if they took all the crap off and gave it a decent paint job, looks like a BMW Compact from the back..

iva cosworth

44,044 posts

162 months

Tuesday 21st December 2010
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http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a... the perfect 'winter' car today

here it is smile

cookie1600

2,094 posts

160 months

Tuesday 21st December 2010
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BeeRoad said:
Has he run over some scaffolding?
While reversing into a brick wall at high speed?

louismchuge

1,628 posts

183 months

Tuesday 21st December 2010
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Ummmm

Isn't that actually a Golf in the one pic?!

edit - yes I'm a tard and didn't read it properly

Edited by louismchuge on Tuesday 21st December 11:39

firman

1,407 posts

192 months

Tuesday 21st December 2010
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To be fair if you took the scaffolding off it then it doesnt look any worse than a BMW compact I dont think

soad

32,829 posts

175 months

Tuesday 21st December 2010
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louismchuge said:
Ummmm

Isn't that actually a Golf in the one pic?!
Second from the top? Sure is. Golf cross country biggrin

Galileo

3,145 posts

217 months

Tuesday 21st December 2010
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Right, you lot. That thing has got an average vote of 1.65 at the moment. Who the bloody hell gave it any more than 0? Come on, own up so we can all laugh at you.

angusc43

11,435 posts

207 months

Tuesday 21st December 2010
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That is gash in the extreme.

But then again I have never ever seen the point of something which is not a normal shape - all trendy nonsense as far as I can see.

I stopped buying Tonka Toys before my fourth birthday.

renorti

727 posts

195 months

Tuesday 21st December 2010
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not bad,not good