While Ferrari may have touted its F50 as an F1 car for the road, they had to make so many concessions it ended up being a so-so effort in the end . That’s not the case with the Mercedes CLK GTR of the same period, though.
The Mercedes looked exactly like a Le Mans racer, and all cars built for the road were solely built to meet homologation regulations for the FIA’s GT Championship.
The CLK GTR, built by AMG, has a screaming six-liter V12 making some 600 crank horsepower – it went up to 630 hp in racing applications in 1997. Only 25 were ever built, though, and only one of these cars is right-hand drive, ordered specially by Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah of Brunei.
It’s the kind of car that always draws a crowd, be it one comprised of enthusiasts or just enthusiastic bystanders, people are always looking and taking photos of it.
One example was recently spotted by BrianZuk in Monterey, California, the car in the video below.