AMG Mercedes-Benz CLK GTR Super Sport, the fastest street-legal sports car Mercedes-Benz ever built goes up for sale

Mercedes didn't have road use in mind when they designed the CLK GTR for FIA GT Championship, but, in order to meet homologation standards for the series, 25 cars were built for the street.

An initial road car was built in 1997 in order to meet initial FIA requirements, but this car was retained by Mercedes. For the other 25 road cars, each was built by AMG at the Affalterbach factory between winter of 1998 and summer of 1999 and differed only slightly from the race car. All of the 25 CLK GTRs ever built were left hand drive except for one which was specially built for Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah of Brunei. Driver comfort and refinements were at a minimum in the construction of the road cars as Mercedes-Benz wished to not only offer customers a true race car, but also to attempt to keep the price low. Leather was used in the interior and an air conditioning system was offered.

Two small storage lockers were also built underneath each upward swinging door. Traction control was also added for driver safety. The car retained much of the design of the original CLK GTR instead of the CLK LM, including the V12 and many stylistic elements. One key difference was the rear wing, which used a hoop-style integrated wing in place of the separate racing wing. From the otherwise unrelated standard production Mercedes-Benz CLK, only the instrumentation, front grille and the four headlamps were used.

Ilmor Engineering provided enhancements to the engine, increasing displacement from 6.0L to 6.9L. This increase in displacement coupled with the removal of a racing air restrictor allowed for 612 PS (450 kW; 604 hp) and torque to 775 N·m (572 lb·ft). Mercedes-AMG claimed 0-100 km/h (62 mph) in 3.8 seconds and a top speed of 320 km/h (199 mph).

The Guinness Book of World Records recorded the CLK GTR as the most expensive production car ever built at the time, with a price of $1,547,620(USD).

H.W.A. also constructed another variant, known as the CLK GTR Super Sport. These cars were similar to CLK GTRs, yet were powered instead by the newer Mercedes-AMG 7.3L V12 which had been in use in the Pagani Zonda and Mercedes-Benz SL73 AMG. Producing 664 PS (488 kW; 655 hp) and 786 N·m (580 lb·ft). The car also gained an additional front splitter for better stability at high speeds. Only 2 was built with the 7.3L engine: chassis #03,chassis #17.

The car you see here, which is currently listed on Ebay, is #17 of the 25 built. This CLK GTR has only traveled 1492 miles on the roads of Florida.

You can love it or hate it, but this monster is a very unique opportunity. The price of this thing in eBay is $1 million (USD).

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God Dammit this car is Beautiful

 

Unfortunately $1 million USD is just the starting bid, otherwise it would be a hell of a deal. Car is for sale for a while now.

 

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