This superb Mercedes-Benz CLK GTR will not be low cost, but it surely’s a real dream automotive for people who grew up within the Nineteen Nineties.
There are extra million-dollar automobiles on the market on the earth at this time than ever earlier than, a byproduct of issues like inflation and a surging collector automotive market. However once we noticed this extremely uncommon Mercedes-Benz CLK GTR pop up on the market on the German web site Cell, we knew that it was going to take a number of further zeroes to carry residence. Positive sufficient, this homologated racer – one in all simply 25 produced in complete – has an asking value of £11,100,000, which interprets to round $13,674,978 utilizing at this time’s change charges.
That’s clearly an unbelievable amount of cash to pay for any automotive, however the Mercedes-Benz CLK GTR can also be a fairly unbelievable machine. A real poster automotive of its period, the CLK GTR wasn’t low cost to start with, because it price a cool $1.5 million when it launched in 1997, making it the costliest manufacturing automotive ever at the moment. On the observe, the racing model dominated the FIA GT Championship for 2 consecutive years, which solely added to its lore.
The road-going model was no slouch both, because it got here packing a naturally-aspirated 6.9-liter V12 that produces 604 horsepower and 572 pound-feet of torque, which flows to the wheels by way of a lightning-quick shifting six-speed Xtrac sequential transaxle. Attending to 62 mph takes simply 3.8 seconds, whereas the CLK GTR tops out at 214 mph – all of that are mightily spectacular numbers by at this time’s requirements, and easily bonkers for something constructed within the Nineteen Nineties.
Apart from apparent issues like security tools, the road-going CLK GTR wasn’t terribly completely different than its racing brethren both, with some softer springs and dampers, together with a better journey top to make it a bit extra comfortable to drive on the road. This explicit instance has 12.300 kilometers on the clock, which equates to a reasonably-high (for a prized hypercar) 7,642 miles. Regardless, even previous to the present explosion in costs, this stuff have been promoting for 10 million or so, so the asking value truly appears cheap, sarcastically sufficient.
Sadly, that’s nonetheless not even near what most of us can afford to dish out for a automobile, so the mighty Mercedes-Benz CLK GTR stays as out of attain because it was many years in the past, watching us from a poster on our partitions.
Photographs: Cell, Mercedes-Benz
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