Thanks for doing this giveaway; I got a SSK that wouldn't mind having another artisan occupy one of its keys
I'm sorry that I won't be able to tell you which is my favourite car, as I believe that there are lots of special cars that all have their own uniqueness and significance that picking one favourite is impossible, but I'll do it anyway.
One of my favourite cars of all time is the Mercedes E60 AMG Limited.
Now, you might ask, what's so special about a factory-tuned E500? Isn't it just an old Mercedes?
Well, to explain, in the 90s, when Porsche was going deep in the red, they went around Stuttgart knocking on the doors of local companies to see if anyone would offer them extra work, with one of the companies being Mercedes.
At the same time, BMW had just released the M5, a luxury sports sedan, which Mercedes at the time did not have anything to go against.
Due to the coincidental circumstances of the time, Mercedes thought, how about we just give Porsche our W124 (E-class chassis), and the 5.0L V8 from our SL500 coupe, and see if they can figure it out?
Porsche ended up widening the stock W124 chassis, widened fender flares, robbed the parts bin of their own vehicles for suspension, and used their own Recaro seats, one individual one per seat, and this was how the 500E was born (later name-changed to E500 due to Mercedes's naming scheme).
The E60 AMG is an even more special model, with AMG building a 6.0L version of the V8 engine, and only 12 of the Limited models were made during the end of the production cycle.
This was the first and last time that Porsche ever made cars for another manufacturer, and
where else can you find a 4-door sedan powered by an AMG 6.0L V8 engine, with Porsche suspension and tuning, four individual Porsche/Recaro bucket seats, handcrafted at the Porsche factory merely meters away from the 911s?It took them 18 days to complete each one, having to ship it back and forth between the two companies.
