The Mercedes-Benz 500 E turns 30: Respect your elders

Virtually every Mercedes-Benz model gets a performance variant these days, but that never would have happened without the Mercedes-Benz 500 E, which turns 30 this year. To commemorate the sport sedan’s birthday, Mercedes released a retrospective on its development. Unveiled at the 1990 Paris International Motor Show, the 500 E was a W124-body mid-size sedan …