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FCP Euro's Golden Era Mercedes Still Rules And Has Gotten Some Choice Upgrades

A green, white and blue Mercedes Benz 190e race car drives on the track at Watkins Glen
A green, white and blue Mercedes Benz 190e race car drives on the track at Watkins Glen

People talk about golden eras a lot when referencing cars. Honda had a golden era in the ’90s and early 2000s. BMW had one in the ’80s and another one in the early aughts as well. Mercedes had one too and it was best represented by the super awesome and super intense-looking 190e 2.5 Evolution II. Those cars are unobtanium now, so our favorite Euro car parts house, FCP Euro, built its own take on one and we wrote about it back in February.

Fast forward eight months and that car has now seen some serious track time, and in true project car fashion, Project Golden Era has evolved to be faster, safer and smarter and of course, FCP made a video showing the changes. Some of them are pretty rad.

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Overall, this remains one of my favorite project cars that the FCP folks have built, and I need to start emailing them to let me take it for a rip if I make it to the east coast.

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