Winding Road - fire and silk on the Autobahn.

[dakota]

There is a very nice article on the 500E in the latest edition of the E-zine, The Winding Road.

Winding Road is a slick, digital auto enthusiast's magazine available for free, as near as I can tell. You have to subscribe to it, they send you and email announcing each new edition. You go to the website and download it.

http://www.windingroad.com/about

Regards,

[Cannoli]

Good find Steve ... it is a well written article. I've never heard of this on-line magazine before - I like it!


The article "Modern Classic", is in Issue #9, pages 117 - 125.

[mcbear]

This is David E Davis's new endevor after he retired as editor emertius from Automobile Magazine and before that Car & Driver. He and I talked at the Car & Driver 50th Birthday party at Indy last July for a couple of hours and he was very excited about a new venture into the unknown world of ezines at the age of 75. His Davis family and mine shared the same piece of dirt in southeast Kentucky back in the 20's and 30's. I expect with the lack of restraint of paper and printing deadlines, this could be the best effort yet.

If you ever get a chance to just listen to him speak at an event, it is worth the price if you do nothing else at the event. This guy IS automobiles in the US.

[Jimbo]

On page 121 the writer says only the 92 and 93 were assembled by Porsche ...so now who assembled the 91 and 94 models? VW ? :rolleyes:

Good article though....nice to see the old car get attention in print these days. :)

[gerryvz]

This is definitively incorrect -- Porsche did manufacture all 500Es and E500s from the late 1990 to early 1995 time period. This mistake was also repeated in the recent MBCA STAR article about the 500E.

I want to try to stomp out this myth as it's not correct. There is a fellow who is a member over at the 500E BBS that has photographs and video that he personally took on a visit to the Porsche factory that show late-model 500Es being built alongside Audi RSs (which were the cars that Porsche started ramping up building as MB ramped down production of the E500s).

Cheers,
Gerry