Porsche Contract Work Prevented Bankruptcy

Porsche was sliding toward bankruptcy in the early 1990s when Mercedes-Benz handed it a lifeline: build the W124-based 500 E. The car's wider body would not fit Mercedes' production line, so Porsche helped develop it and assembled more than 11,000 units in Zuffenhausen through 1995. The contract kept Porsche's team working during the crisis.

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