CLK GTR for Enzo money

[athorby]

Hi guys,

www.lutziger-classiccars.ch/angebote_cars.html

I came across this CLK GTR which appears to be going for 400,000GBP which is enzo/zonda f money, however much more rare. I believe there is one in Dubai and the owner apparantly paid $1,800,000.
So is there no demand for such a vehicle? I'm very suprised how many are on the market at present and I'm curious as to what has affected their value.
Any one have any thoughts?

Cheers
Adam

[athorby]

BTW, it's on the final page after a number of Porsches. Keep clicking on "Nächste Seite" button to go to next page.

Cheers

[castex]

Hmmn
I'd say that something so impractical needs to be beautiful, and with a face that only its mother could love the CLKGTR is bang out of luck for your buck.

[stin]

on the rare side?? look across on this pic!

www.lutziger-classiccars.ch/occa/image.php?Id=805

only kidding! im not normally a big fan of merc's, for me there are only 2 others i'd buy (Clk Dtm and Cl600 or above) this has now entered the list, it would have been in there before! But i'd forgot they even made the thing

[pentoman]

castex said:

I'd say that something so impractical needs to be beautiful, and with a face that only its mother could love the CLKGTR is bang out of luck for your buck.

I think it's a bloody lovely looking car!

It looks like a smooth, stylish Mercedes, but if you look closer you realise it's a Le Mans car.

[Mogulboy]

The reason this one is so 'affordable' is because the previous owner fitted Yaris Turbo wheels to it.



...only joking. I love that Merc (appart from the dodgy OEM wheels of course) but the Porsche GT1 would get my money instead!)

[mc_blue]

Very OT.

Nice colour.

[sneijder]

Pfffft.

You want one without a roof :



With the daftest sills in the world :



At Auto Salon Singen : www.autosalon-singen.de/index.htm

[ghostwkd]

lol, have to take a running jump to get into it?

[jedi]

Arent these based on the LeMans cars that kept flipping at 200mph?
Guess thats why the residuals are pretty poor.

I think they were somewhere between £1-1.5m new, but that was sometime ago.

[Davey S2]

Enzo would probably cost you another £150K - £200K at the moment.

I would rather a Zonda F over any of them

[pentoman]

Are they a paddle shift affair or what? Presumably they feature whatever the race car has.. some sort of racing sequential box?

[toxic frog]

sneijder said:

Pfffft.

You want one without a roof :



With the daftest sills in the world :



At Auto Salon Singen : www.autosalon-singen.de/index.htm

thing is... wouldn't you rather have a carrera gt which does it better at a fraction of the cost?

[sneijder]

Nah, don't like woogen gear knobs.

[pentoman]

toxic frog said:

sneijder said:

Pfffft.

You want one without a roof :

With the daftest sills in the world :

At Auto Salon Singen : www.autosalon-singen.de/index.htm

thing is... wouldn't you rather have a carrera gt which does it better at a fraction of the cost?

But even the Carrera GT doesn't look like this in the engine room:







And that one just makes a Carrera GT look old fashioned

[athorby]

I like them because they look so extreme and different to many other supercars on the market. It's basically a Le Mans car and was only built so that the racing car could compete. I was at Le Mans in 1999 and was in the Panoz pits when the car flipped midway through the race. There happened to be a silver road legal one parked in the paddock with a gray Porsche GT1 and I'm a great fan of the hypercars of that era.
Does anyone know how many are in the UK? Anyone have any experiences? I know I should post in the Merc forum but I was hoping to hear opinions from FML owners.

Still, nowadays I'd have a Zonda F over anything else..

[stevenm]

not the most beautiful of machines but by god its awesome!!!

[Obi Wan]

Tiff driving it www.dpccars.com/car-movies/06-06-06pageMercedesCLKGTR.htm

[Polarbert]

Obi Wan said:

Tiff driving it www.dpccars.com/car-movies/06-06-06pageMercedesCLKGTR.htm

This video is now not available.

[JuniorD]

toxic frog said:

sneijder said:

Pfffft.

You want one without a roof :



With the daftest sills in the world :



At Auto Salon Singen : www.autosalon-singen.de/index.htm

thing is... wouldn't you rather have a carrera gt which does it better at a fraction of the cost?

Wasn't one of the 5 AMG CLK-GTR Roadsters involved in the $1.7m law suit in the USA?

www.theautochannel.com/news/2006/06/14/011252.html