Diamond rare Mercedes CLK GTR Roadster goes up for auction

Wealthy collectors will soon be offered a unique opportunity for a new valuable piece in the showcase or rather in the garage, as one of only six models of the Mercedes CLK GTR Roadster will be auctioned. Even otherwise, the series belongs to the endangered species, as only twenty CLK GTR models were produced, and a legal sports car from the turn of the millennium (1999) is being auctioned for ordinary roads. It has only six kilometers behind it, and the asking price is said to be around two million euros.

It's a Mercedes the CLK GTR racing car introduced already in 1997, but since then only twenty of them have been driven from the factory. Derivative of "no top", road model CLK GTR Roadster, got even fewer examples - six - so let's not mince words about this exceptional opportunity for collectors and let's focus on the specifications. The auction will be on Goodwood Festival of Speed (Goodwood Festival of Speed, UK) organized Banhmas, who will tease the murder with 6.9-liter V12 engine from 1999 that vomits 604 horsepower and from 0 to 100 km/h it needs 3.7 seconds.

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Despite the fact that the Mercedes CLK GTR Roadster has been around for 16 years, it turns no less heads.

If you think the asking price is approx. two million euros, astronomical, but not compared to the original price. A good fifteen years ago, when Bill Clinton was just beginning his second presidential term, the car key with carbon fiber and aluminum chassis namely offered for one and a half million euros. It will be known how much a new CLK GTR Roadster will go for (most of the time it was garaged) almost two decades later June 26, 2015.