Beschreibung
In 2003, Mercedes won the Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters (DTM) Championship with Bernd Schneider at the wheel of a Mercedes CLK DTM race car. To celebrate, Mercedes created a very limited production road going version of Mr Schneider’s race car…. and so the CLK DTM AMG was born.
Officially launched in 2004, the arrival of the highly exclusive CLK DTM AMG was actually a fairly low key affair with the 100 coupe production units sold out almost instantaneously at a list price of €236, 060 with buyers including Jenson Button, Kimi Raikkonen and Takuma Sato.
Based on the Mercedes C209 CLK, the chassis was reworked to match that of the race car. The rear axle was extensively redesigned with stiffer bushes, new hub carriers, reinforced driveshaft and height adjustable torsion suspension. The car also gained multi-disc limited slip differential and composite brakes. The 5. 4 litre supercharged V8 benefited from significant revisions over the common rail M113 E55 block including modifications to the crankcase, pistons, valve gear, cooling, intake manifold, supercharger and exhaust system. The net result was 574bhp sent through a reworked AMG SPEEDSHIFT 5-Speed gearbox.
Cosmetically, the car borrowed design queues from the DTM race car with vented front and rear arches, revised front and rear bumpers and valances along with a new carbon fibre rear wing. Internally, the race car feel continued with the removal of rear seats in favour of a carbon fibre box section, b-pillar strut brace behind the carbon fibre bucket seats and door cards.
First registered in March 2006, this sensational Mercedes Benz (C209) CLK DTM AMG is 1 of only 40 RHD supplied cars. Finished in Brilliant Silver with Black interior, this incredible example was first delivered to Singapore before being registered in the UK in 2016. The car has covered a mere 10, 200 miles from new with exceptional provenance and full Mercedes Benz service history. It has just returned to us from a major service at Mercedes Benz Brooklands totalling £12k and benefits from full car PPF installed by Topaz.
This CLK DTM AMG represents a brilliant opportunity to acquire possibly the best RHD example currently in existence. It harks back to a golden age when manufacturers still had the gumption, freedom and opportunity to build true road going race cars and there are few better examples from this era than the iconic DTM AMG. We firmly believe prices are going in only one direction from here.
