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Mercedes CLK news - For sale: CLK GTRs - 2009

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Mercedes CLK news - For sale: CLK GTRs - 2009 | Top Gear

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Mercedes CLK news - For sale: CLK GTRs - 2009

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Mercedes CLK news - For sale: CLK GTRs - 2009

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Mercedes CLK news - For sale: CLK GTRs - 2009

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Mercedes CLK news - For sale: CLK GTRs - 2009

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See more pictures of Merc's GTR road cars

If you’re feeling flush this morning, then we dare you to buy this Mercedes CLK GTR roadster. It’s up for auction at RM’s London sale in October, alongside a coupe version for people who like roofs.

Of course, we wouldn’t want you throwing your cash around without a little more information. So here it is.

Back in 1997 Mercedes entered the FIA GT1 series, and under championship rules each car needed a road-legal equivalent. And so the firm began building the numberplated GTRs, even when the GT1 class folded in 1999. Mercedes had promised cars to customers and to avoid beatings from oligarchs’ henchmen, it delivered.

Each car packed a 6.8-litre V12 with 612bhp and to make them a little cosier, Mercedes threw in some leather and a glovebox, and traction control to help keep things in shape. Just 20 coupes and six roadsters were built at a cost of about one million euro each.

And if you want an idea of how piggish and absurd they were to drive in everyday conditions, watch this video.

Of course, the cars were designed to be cut loose on race circuits. They could do 0-62mph in 3.4 seconds and laser onwards to 200mph, at which point – as the race cars neatly demonstrated – they turned into aeroplanes…

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See more pictures of Merc's GTR road cars

If you’re feeling flush this morning, then we dare you to buy this Mercedes CLK GTR roadster. It’s up for auction at RM’s London sale in October, alongside a coupe version for people who like roofs.

Of course, we wouldn’t want you throwing your cash around without a little more information. So here it is.

Back in 1997 Mercedes entered the FIA GT1 series, and under championship rules each car needed a road-legal equivalent. And so the firm began building the numberplated GTRs, even when the GT1 class folded in 1999. Mercedes had promised cars to customers and to avoid beatings from oligarchs’ henchmen, it delivered.

Each car packed a 6.8-litre V12 with 612bhp and to make them a little cosier, Mercedes threw in some leather and a glovebox, and traction control to help keep things in shape. Just 20 coupes and six roadsters were built at a cost of about one million euro each.

And if you want an idea of how piggish and absurd they were to drive in everyday conditions, watch this video.

Of course, the cars were designed to be cut loose on race circuits. They could do 0-62mph in 3.4 seconds and laser onwards to 200mph, at which point – as the race cars neatly demonstrated – they turned into aeroplanes…

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Road-going versions of Mercedes’ GT1 racers go under the hammer

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