Had Rowan Atkinson made use of his private car in the TELEVISION series Mr. Bean, had it not been necessary for the show’s beloved protagonist to use an armchair as a seat on the roof of his Mini Cooper.
In 1991, invested the actor in a Mercedes-Benz E-Class, if seats are likely to have matched the easy chair, when it came to comfort. However, it was no ordinary German direktørvogn, Rowan Atkinson in his time bought, but the particularly coveted 500E model.
A car, which Mercedes developed together with sportsvognsproducenten Porsche, and who came to the Uk in just 29 copies. Atkinson has owned the car for two laps, but now it under the hammer at the auction house Classic Car Auctions, CCA.
The writing bilmediet TopGear.
It is not apparent from salgsopslaget at CCA, what the car is rated to take. Rowan Atkinson has not set any reserve price, but as many other used Mercedes models from the 1990s the car has gradually been running pretty far.
a total Of 310.000 kilometers it has been in the car’s 28-year-long life – or nearly eight times around the Earth.
It is, however, very few udkørte taxis, which has a V8 engine which Rowan Atkinson 500E. The collaboration between Porsche and Mercedes created a car that probably looked like a regular E-Class to the untrained eye, but the saved effort from a sports car under the hood.
According to TopGear took the German bilbyggere the V8 engine from Mercedes’ SL-model and combined it with larger brakes, new shock absorbers and quite discreet skørtesæt.
the Result was a hand-built direktørvogn with 320 horsepower, it could reach from 0 to 100 km/h. in just 5.5 seconds.
the Car, which is now on auction, has been in the Rowan Atkinson hands in the first four and last two years of his life. Occasionally the car has had the same owner for 23 years, but it does not mean that it is in a completely unspoiled condition.
the Auction house says in a press release, that must be a bit of work, if it is to be quite sharp.
It may indicate that the powerful Mercedes not have been allowed to gather dust in the garage with Rowan Atkinson. The 64-year-old actor is known for being a car enthusiast of rank, and among other things he has owned a copy of the flamboyance McLaren F1 – a car, he also has managed to run the wrong in twice.
the Atkinson Mercedes-Benz 500E must under the hammer in Warwickshire 25. may.
