James has been writing about cars professionally since 2012. After a bruising period freelancing in his native UK, James spent six years in Dubai, starting his new life abroad as Web Editor for ...

Mercedes's acquisition of AMG in 1998 led to the creation of another three-letter tuning house. Hans Werner Aufrecht, the A in AMG, set up a new eponymous company to continue with the motorsports ...

German race shop HWA recreates one of the wildest looking Mercedes-Benz sedans ever built. In 1990 the Mercedes-Benz 190E 2.5-16 EVO II was, by far, the wildest looking sports sedan ever produced by a ...

Despite having been seen driving around on public roads, the Batmobile-like Apollo Intensa Emozione hypercar isn’t finished yet. The 780 horsepower track monster still has a ways to go before it can ...

The first example, chassis No. 000, will be auctioned on July 27 at the RM Sotheby’s sale at Tegernsee in Germany. By then, that might be the last still available to purchase. Of course, this is no ...

Vik is the Co-Founder and former Editor at MotorAuthority, a leading U.S. website covering performance and luxury cars. Since 2025, he has contributed to CarBuzz, blending his engineering background ...

Original examples of the Mercedes-Benz 190 E 2.5-16 Evolution II homologation special of the early 1990s can fetch more than half a million dollars today at auction, but HWA wants to build a modern ...

The Mercedes-Benz 190 E 2.5-16 Evolution II was a homologation special required for DTM competition, which was launched in 1990 in a limited run of 502 cars. It's an icon of the era, and now HWA wants ...

You’re familiar with HWA, you just didn’t know it. After nailing the restomod game, they might just give hypercar makers a run for their money. While the name HWA might not ring a bell for most car ...

It had a clumsy name. It wasn’t that fast. It wasn’t even great to drive. It didn’t have a particularly long or illustrious motorsport career. And yet the Mercedes 190E 2.5-16 Evo II is an icon. A big ...