The perfect Mercedes 190 Cosworth is coming from HWA

These first images are a proper tease of a stunning yet sympathetic creation. They’ve very much taken the Singer approach, enhancing what exists, delicately updating, nipping and tucking. It’s lower, wider, more aggressive yet more refined. The lights are modern without being chintzy and the wheels are large without being ostentatious. There’s a real DTM car for the road vibe.

"The EVO II was a design icon of the early 1990s and set benchmarks in terms of style,” said Hans Wener Aufrecht, founder of HWA.

“Our idea was to reinterpret this design.”

Very little is known about the specifications of the Evo so far, though HWA says that the Mercedes W201 will form the basis, onto which state-of-the-art powertrain, chassis, aerodynamics and safety appointment will be grafted. The car is described as a ‘street-legal racing machine’ by HWA on its website.

HWA is forecasting an end-of-2025 period for first deliveries of the Evo, of which 100 examples are planned. The car is to be a celebration of HWA’s 25^th anniversary, which counts development of some of the greatest Mercedes and Mercedes-powered (non-F1) racing cars of the last three decades among its achievements, from the CLK GTR GT1 racer of the 1990s, to the howling V12 in Pagani’s Huayra R. Recent projects include development of the Apollo IE, De Tomaso P72 and AMG GT3.

The car will be distributed in partnership with Curated, a dealership in Miami that specialises in exotic and specialist cars from the late 20^th century. Its co-founder, John Tumerian, is famously an aficionado of cars from AMG’s early years so this is a project dear to his heart.