It is not often I’m lost for words, but when I walked into the cellar at the Pace Museum I was confronted with this Mercedes-Benz W202. As you can see it is a far cry from your regular dad spec C-Class W202. I have been trying to find out more info on the car, but there was no spec-list on the car or stickers to point me in the right direction. So after asking some of my industry friends I have a strong indication this car belongs to someone at Levella in Germany.
This was no easy bolt on kit. The kit itself came from Thailand. Making it fit meant cutting, reshaping, laminating, trimming, then doing it all again until it sat where it needed to. But all the hard work paid off in the end, because it looks incredible in person.
Thanks to the air suspension the car sits extremely low. But to achieve this look the owner had to cut up large parts of the original bodywork. It is crazy to think how far the wheels sit outside the original wheel well. Wheels in the front are 10×20″ with ET40 plus 80 mm spacers and in the back they are 11×20″ with ET30 plus 95 mm spacers.
Inside we see a rare red leather interior with modern infotainment and Apple CarPlay. The automatic transmission is mated to a stock M104 inline-six engine. In a video on YouTube the owner discusses the possibilities of adding turbo’s to the engine to match the look of the exterior. Last piece of the puzzle is making this car road legal because at this point it has no TÜV approval.
Hope to see this car again at the end of this month at this years Essen Motor Show.
