was the 92-93 190E Sportline the first AMG – MB factory collaboration?
Having just acquired a ’93 190E Sportline Special Edition (black leather with red piping), I have been researching the Sportline history and background. I note that the rectangular front fender badge for the ’92 and ”93 190E Sportline package has the name “Sportline” in white on the left, with a light blue logo to the right of the name which is the right slanted, decreasing size trapezoids which is the AMG logo (see the link to a good picture of the badge below– sorry that I don’t have the skills to paste it into this thread, but perhaps someone more computer adept might do so). go to: http://pursuitme-auto.tripod.com/ then click on the1992 Mercedes-Benz 190E 2.6 Sportline black — the picture of the Sportline badge is about seven pictures down [this is from, I think, a Russian car sales site]. The logo would imply that AMG produced the Sportline suspension for the ’92 and ’93 190Es — which would appear to be their first factory collaboration with M-B for a car sold through the M-B
