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CLK GTRs sell for £1.1m
30 October 2009
Two rare 720bhp Mercedes CLK GTR supercars sold for more than £1 million at auction last week.
Just 26 examples of the GT1 race car derived machine were made for the road in the late 1990s, 20 coupes and six roadsters.
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The top sale of the evening was a 2006 Mercedes-Benz CLK GTR Roadster, the only right-hand drive example built, was sold for £616,000, while the coupe went for £522,500. Although it has not been confirmed, they are believed to have been owned by Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah of Brunei.
The estimate price for the coupe wass £370-390,000, while the roadster estimate was £430,000-£500,000 - around a third of what they cost new.
Modified only slightly from the race car, the CLK GTR is powered by an Ilmor modified 720bhp 6.9-litre naturally-aspirated V12 engine with dual overhead camshafts. It had 572lb ft of torque and a claimed 0-62mph time of 3.4sec.
Showing its race pedigree, it also has a six-speed sequential manual gearbox with paddle-shift operation, independent front and rear suspension with double wishbones, pushrod-actuated coil springs and shock absorbers, and four-wheel ventilated, anti-lock carbon-fibre disc brakes.
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