heaven in short term, absolute hell in the long term but then again this is a car driven on occasions. id drive it at least once a week if i had one though.
I've thought that this supercar is one of the coolest vehicles since I saw it in Need For Speed III: Hot Pursuit. I remember this being my favorite car in that game. Simply timeless design.
i believe that same engine is in the pagani, in my eyes the best v12 ever to be produced on this planet, that sound is unique to the mercedes style v12
+Endo Ll AMG engines. but yea i think the early Pagani Zonda C12 and C12S had this engine or a very similar one to this. then when they brought out the Zonda F Roadster it was the first major redesign since the C12 and then it was fallowed by the several editions that finished with the 760 line up. Fun fact, the Huayra was originally going to have the AMG twin turbo V8 but the shareholders and customers were unhappy with that decision so they went with the twin turbo V12's but worked with AMG to ensure that they had the insane torque from the start not you know like half way in the rev range. so they put smaller turbos than what is in the S65 AMG sedan but it makes more power probably because 1 the S65 is sort of downtuned to ensure it is a reliable 600 odd hp while the Huayra is not really a daily driven car. but then again id have to be hands on with both engines to know for sure.
+mirrorsedgy Yes! its the M120 engine block!!! Same of my car (S600 C140) and of course the first Pagani ever... the Zonda C12 that have the engine without any tuning, just the same 394hp of the best looking and sounding V12 ever!!!
-------------------------------------------------The childhood holy trio -------------------------------------------------- Mercedes CLK-GTR - McLaren F1 GTR LongTail - Porsche 911 GT1 Strassenversion Every car enthusiast grown in the 90's will recognize this fact. To us, no P1 or Laferrari inspire the respect we have for these three cars. They are carved in our bones now
It's definitely the classiest looking car of its caliber. I have a special respect for high-end brands that integrate looks from their everyday lineup in a full-on race exotic.
Ah the good ol GT road racers from the 90's, such a shame they changed the rules as it meant some utter nutty road cars. The CLK GTR is one of the best looking ever though, better then the P1 I think, up there with the Maserati MC12 which was another beast I think from this rule?
marksapollo I hear ya. God i love the 90s when it comes to cars. I know there are "better" cars nowadays or whatever, but the 90s, when it comes to cars, the 90s have such a special place in my heart, whether it be from nostalgia of the days when i first starting loving cars, or simply the fact that the 90s was one of the last decades where cars were still made for people who actually liked driving (no more manual transmissions today, for example).
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MC12 pushed the GT rules so much LeMans ACO baned it, while FIA saw it as legal.
@@carlosandleon I don't know it looks epic, very low and has presence. I've seen the convertible in real life (1 of 5), it is stunning. It's like the McLaren senna or gumpert apollo though, it was more designed for function/performance rather than beauty.
they do in the GT series, Porshe, Ferrari, Audi, you could say GM with the Vette aswell but in the world of road cars the Vette is the bargain supercar. like the cheapest stripper, it isnt the best in the buisness but for your dollars youd probably still be happy
My favorite car as a kid! I had this car as my wallpaper for the longest time lol. NFS High Stakes introduced me to it. I still love it and it will always be one of my favorite cars ever made and if I can buy it one day, I sure as heck will!
Believe me my father's Mercedes has 1 front wipe as the GTR and it cleans bigger area than the 2 front wipes. My Audi has 2 wipes but honestly I prefer Mercedes's 1 wipe. I don't know why they changed it.
vdochev It is one of the biggest brain farts ever come out of Mercedes Benz engineers. It was horribly unreliable. And it didn't clean the most important area... Windshield in front of the driver. Paired 2 wipers leave a little area unwiped in front of passenger, not driver .
Yes! the M120 engine block!!! Same of my car (S600 C140) and of course the first Pagani ever... the Zonda C12 that have the engine without any tuning, just the same 394hp of the best looking and sounding V12 ever!!!
Lots of the races these cars competed in have been uploaded to youtube. CLK GTR's on Donington really is a treat to watch. You can also check out BMW LMR's and Porsche GT-1's in ALMS videos of around 1995-1999. RUclips is awesome. Edit: I don't care if you have to dismount with the help of a excevator: if you arrive at a party like that, in that car, James Bond, Tony Stark and The Fonz might be there, you'll still be by far the coolest person. Edit2: If anyone could tell me the name of the music at 5:10, that would be greatly appreciated.
Greatest supercar to ever be created, it may not be practical at all on the street, but it was always meant to be on the track; it literally started as a racecar turned streetcar. The engine sounds glorious, looks amazing, is reportedly good on the track even in roadcar trim as well. But then again, if you bought one jut to run errands with or to go on long drives then that makes you the fool.
The licence tag is "LB" - this stands for "Ludwigsburg" and is near Stuttgart (where Mercedes comes from). And Ludwigsburg is where my Golf Club is :-)
@Riles07 The Pagani Zonda R is actually a 6.0 L V12. The other Pagani Zondas are all a 7.3 L V12 except the Pagani Zonda C12 and the C12s, which is has a 6.0 L V12 and a 7.0 L V12 respectively. Whatever it is, the Zonda R sounds awesome!
im surprised he did so well in the rain. ive heard others talk about how much of a nightmare that car was to drive in just the lightest of damp conditions.
No, it's not the LM car. It only raced in the FIA GT Championship from 1997 to 1998. But the CLK-LM was the LM car which raced in 1998 Le Mans and also in the 1998 FIA GT Championship.
@ClubsportEvoluzione Depends on which iteration of the Zonda we're talking about, I reckon the road going CLK-GTR would probably destroy every Zonda aside from the newer F and Cinque. A fun fact: the non street-legal Zonda R uses the same engine as the CLK-GTR race car.
Yes I'm sure fifth gear would be broadcast on the bbc (you didn't spot the logo for a whole 6m17s?). The "host" (Tiff Needell btw) was a presenter for top gear long before fifth gear even existed. Also he is actually quite a good presenter and the only part of fifth gear which is worth watching atm.
This is the old Top Gear before they had Richard Hammond and Jason Dawes, and later on James May taking over for Jason Dawes which is the Top Gear we see today.
Okay Am I right? The racing CLK-GTR had a 6.0L V12 developing ~600hp The road-going version has a 6.8L V12 developing ~660hp The SuperSport developed by H.W.A had the 7.3L V12 making 720hp
I wish they would put it on the current top gear track just to see how it compares to the likes of Bugatti Veyron... what a marvelous piece of engineering.
Classical piece at 5:10, heard it 1000 times can't remember the name or composer, someone here knows it. One of my favorite cars, gotta love the howling straight-cut gearbox
The most sorted GT1 road car you can get. Lovely. Much rather have that than the newer SLR Mclaren, despite the fact that its faster (for top speed anyway).
It's interesting how the market for these "hyper-cars" has changed over the decades. The glorious 90s trio was made in only a few dozen units and if you look now, the AMG ONE alone will be build 275 times.
@ChrisPwaffle - WRONG. This is OLD Top Gear, which got killed off in 2000. Clarkson then revived it with Andy Wilman and recruited Richard Hammond, Jason Dawe and Perry McCarthy in 2002. Dawe was later replaced by James May and Perry McCarthy by Ben Collins.
@MrPlagues Indeed :) but I'm pretty sure the R would eat the racing CLK, as it doesn't follow any regulations and it's engine pumps out as much power as it's possible, and other things like weight etc :)
The side note where Tiff Needell said, "no room for my golf clubs there", in reference to the small storage space in the CLK-GTR, who on earth would buy a supercar for its practicality or for that matter to play golf. A golf player definitely wouldn't turn up to their local club in a supercar, that's for sure 😂
Mclaren F1 is the dream.
CLK-GTR is unobtainium.
so true lol
Unobtanium? You can get one for 1/8 the price of an F1.
BeanyB0b there are literally none for sale
BeanyB0b Ya. Good luck finding 1 of 25 for sale.
Find me an F1 for sale right now.
This was THE car I lusted over as a kid in the 90s, shame its not so well known.
Me too... wish they made more
I know...
yeah i love this car.
Fucc the ppl who do t know about it this is are 90s unicorn and the f1 mclaren
it makes it even better that the car is unknown.
Best Mercedes ever.
For me, also one of the best car of the history
yup, just like the xj220
Nu Sauber C9
Sauber C9 isn't a road car dipshit. Rather have a race tuned NA V12 than a TT V8.
+sexyitalian891 yessir
mclaren f1
Straight cut gears are a thing of true beauty
heaven in short term, absolute hell in the long term but then again this is a car driven on occasions. id drive it at least once a week if i had one though.
@@patrickpelletier6315 I'd want to drive it every day lol screw once a week... it'd turn into an addiction really fast!
By far the most exclusive Mercedes Benz on the road
The older you get... The more you appreciate Tiff. Legend.
Never thought I'd agree to this. Well aged comment.
I love how he's testing it on a snowy day with wet roads.
I've thought that this supercar is one of the coolest vehicles since I saw it in Need For Speed III: Hot Pursuit. I remember this being my favorite car in that game. Simply timeless design.
i believe that same engine is in the pagani, in my eyes the best v12 ever to be produced on this planet, that sound is unique to the mercedes style v12
Pagani have mercedes engines
+Endo Ll AMG engines. but yea i think the early Pagani Zonda C12 and C12S had this engine or a very similar one to this. then when they brought out the Zonda F Roadster it was the first major redesign since the C12 and then it was fallowed by the several editions that finished with the 760 line up. Fun fact, the Huayra was originally going to have the AMG twin turbo V8 but the shareholders and customers were unhappy with that decision so they went with the twin turbo V12's but worked with AMG to ensure that they had the insane torque from the start not you know like half way in the rev range. so they put smaller turbos than what is in the S65 AMG sedan but it makes more power probably because 1 the S65 is sort of downtuned to ensure it is a reliable 600 odd hp while the Huayra is not really a daily driven car. but then again id have to be hands on with both engines to know for sure.
+mirrorsedgy Yes! its the M120 engine block!!! Same of my car (S600 C140) and of course the first Pagani ever... the Zonda C12 that have the engine without any tuning, just the same 394hp of the best looking and sounding V12 ever!!!
The transmission is what sets this like a future car. Like time traveling
Huge AMG fan but best v12 for me is the f1 derived V12 in the Ferrari F50. Best sounding road car ever. Dont get me started on the F50 Gt
-------------------------------------------------The childhood holy trio --------------------------------------------------
Mercedes CLK-GTR - McLaren F1 GTR LongTail - Porsche 911 GT1 Strassenversion
Every car enthusiast grown in the 90's will recognize this fact. To us, no P1 or Laferrari
inspire the respect we have for these three cars. They are carved in our bones now
Lucas silva vieira this is way cooler for me than a LaFerrari. Would pick a clk gtr over that any day
Dude! The CLK-GTR is awesome! it took about 15 years for super cars to perform like that. The trio was way ahead of their time
Saleen S7?
Carlos Avendaño That's a pile of shit I'm comparison
Why? I'm curious why do you think that because I dont know much about cars but like both.
Honestly the Mercedes CLK GTR is the most beautiful car ever made.
Still one of the most beautiful looking cars I'd have ever seen! AMG POWER!!
It's definitely the classiest looking car of its caliber. I have a special respect for high-end brands that integrate looks from their everyday lineup in a full-on race exotic.
if i ever saw that on the streetz, i would faint
me too LOL
Watching this after Henry Catchpole's Carfection review. Tiff is the best!
hmm who wouldnt wanna be driving in a million+ dollar v12 merc in the wet/snow
Yeah, IDGAF about the weather, I'd drive it daily.
Love how he casually drifts it anyway in icy conditions lol. "You need to stop going sideways tiff" Mark Higgins
Ah the good ol GT road racers from the 90's, such a shame they changed the rules as it meant some utter nutty road cars. The CLK GTR is one of the best looking ever though, better then the P1 I think, up there with the Maserati MC12 which was another beast I think from this rule?
marksapollo
I hear ya. God i love the 90s when it comes to cars. I know there are "better" cars nowadays or whatever, but the 90s, when it comes to cars, the 90s have such a special place in my heart, whether it be from nostalgia of the days when i first starting loving cars, or simply the fact that the 90s was one of the last decades where cars were still made for people who actually liked driving (no more manual transmissions today, for example).
MC12 pushed the GT rules so much LeMans ACO baned it, while FIA saw it as legal.
marksapollo don't forget about the F1 GTR Longtail.
@@carlosandleon I don't know it looks epic, very low and has presence. I've seen the convertible in real life (1 of 5), it is stunning. It's like the McLaren senna or gumpert apollo though, it was more designed for function/performance rather than beauty.
Really want supercars to race at the Le Mans again!
they do in the GT series, Porshe, Ferrari, Audi, you could say GM with the Vette aswell but in the world of road cars the Vette is the bargain supercar. like the cheapest stripper, it isnt the best in the buisness but for your dollars youd probably still be happy
not really, Their all GTE cars not GT1 like the late 90s-earlier 2000s
Clarkson went under the knife, he looks different.
This could be the most beautiful car M-B has ever assembled.....
-could be +is
It's this and the mercedes concept seen on gran turismo. Both are epic
300SL
eloy tx The AMG Project One looks a bit better in my opinion.
Slr
I have six bucks in my wallet is that enough?
Manuel del Busto offer a reach around to go with the money. they always go for the reach around.
It's enough for about 10 minutes worth of gas for it lol
ohedd damn I was finna say that 💀
I'll send you a courtesy car OK, you can use it for a while, we'll give you free insurance too
Nah we give courtesy cars for free, I'll lend him much better for a couple of years,
those cats are massive ! what kinds of emissions does that thing blow out ??
All of them
@@yazansakran3326 beat me to it
Who cares Greta?
none - these cars are museum items for collectors
Tiff went for a food run in his CLK GTR hypercar XD
one of my all-time favourite childhood dream cars!
My favorite car as a kid! I had this car as my wallpaper for the longest time lol. NFS High Stakes introduced me to it. I still love it and it will always be one of my favorite cars ever made and if I can buy it one day, I sure as heck will!
Watching this in 2021 is glorious
Wouldn't mind getting in and out of it everyday
I miss these kinds of special cars. Nothings so crazy or special has come out since this era of motorsports.
My car is better in one aspect, it has 2 front wipers!
Believe me my father's Mercedes has 1 front wipe as the GTR and it cleans bigger area than the 2 front wipes. My Audi has 2 wipes but honestly I prefer Mercedes's 1 wipe. I don't know why they changed it.
SWENWAR bmw too i think
WhiteSlift The Mercedes mono blade is the best wiper ever made.
vdochev
Car journalist Ginny Buckley from Men & Motors disagrees with you.
vdochev It is one of the biggest brain farts ever come out of Mercedes Benz engineers. It was horribly unreliable. And it didn't clean the most important area... Windshield in front of the driver. Paired 2 wipers leave a little area unwiped in front of passenger, not driver .
The McLaren F1 was a legendary car, and this one is one of his rivals. Top-level cars.
Mercedes is like that one rich kid in the room that is also smart and wins at everything. Just annoying but yet you want them!?
FastLikeUNO ACCURATE
so true 🙈
There isnt a bmw on the planet that would turn heads like this ultimate creation of man.
Mercedes uses to do flagship sedans for businessmen... But when they get wild they can hurt very hard!
This CLK GTR is a loveable madness.
I have had a model of this car and the 911gt1 since I was 10 years old. Sad that I will most likely never see one in person.
NFS 3 brought me here ;)
Asphalt 8 brought me here :D
Alvino Fadillah me too 😂
Arakmatzu and NFS 6 lol
NFS HP2, yeah.
+Hyper Vanilo yeah got this for half the price
McLaren F1, Mercedes-Benz CLK-GTR , Ferrari F-40
my fave cars. all outstanding
funny- filming from outside of the car it's winter, from inside - already summer :)
I kind of wish Tiff and Plato made an appearance on the current Top Gear.
I like how the steering looks like the one in my dad's old E-class lol
So glad that this engine was passed on to the Zonda; it explains why it sounds like one of the early Zondas as well :)
One of the greatest cars ever built by far.
I love tiff - he's always sooo excited
i fell in love with this car after playing NFS
I always used the CLK-GTR in the old Need for Speed. Sweet car.
Yes! the M120 engine block!!! Same of my car (S600 C140) and of course the first Pagani ever... the Zonda C12 that have the engine without any tuning, just the same 394hp of the best looking and sounding V12 ever!!!
Gotta love Tiff's enthusiasm :P
Lots of the races these cars competed in have been uploaded to youtube. CLK GTR's on Donington really is a treat to watch.
You can also check out BMW LMR's and Porsche GT-1's in ALMS videos of around 1995-1999. RUclips is awesome.
Edit: I don't care if you have to dismount with the help of a excevator: if you arrive at a party like that, in that car, James Bond, Tony Stark and The Fonz might be there, you'll still be by far the coolest person.
Edit2: If anyone could tell me the name of the music at 5:10, that would be greatly appreciated.
it is TopGear, the 1st seasons when Tiff was still there
I don't think this man had any worldly idea what this car would become in just a few years. That £1 million might be worth 10 times that by now.
One of my most favorite cars of all time
One of the greats, this was the era of the real driver's supercar.
What a great looking car. Only in my dreams will I be able to drive this monster
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I find it of course dated for looks today but i still find it looking nice.
Tiff Needell - a better driver than any of the current Top Gear presenters
Ahh… when VAT was 17.5%. They never did drop that ‘emergency’ 2.5% introduced in 2011… Osborne mun.
Smells like nostalgia...
Greatest supercar to ever be created, it may not be practical at all on the street, but it was always meant to be on the track; it literally started as a racecar turned streetcar.
The engine sounds glorious, looks amazing, is reportedly good on the track even in roadcar trim as well. But then again, if you bought one jut to run errands with or to go on long drives then that makes you the fool.
I remember watching this piece on TG at the time......looking back surely this must have been one of the first cars with the flappy paddle gearbox.
Apollo 440! Stealth mass! Awesome.
Of course I'm nitpicking a little but Michael Schumacher drove from 1993 onwards with a semiauto- gearbox where the computer does the revmatching.
What's the music at 2:45??? It's quite simply awesome!
Music @5:01 anyone? Sounds an awful lot like Mozart but I have no idea which it is eventually.
It's Vivaldi. :)
Very much appreciated, but I already figured it out by myself in the meantime. It is indeed Vivaldi's Four Seasons - Winter.
The licence tag is "LB" - this stands for "Ludwigsburg" and is near Stuttgart (where Mercedes comes from). And Ludwigsburg is where my Golf Club is :-)
Awesome ride ! The brilliant of Mercedes-Benz Crown.
Looks totally up to date / very impressive. Just like the McLaren F1
Midnight Club 3 DUB Edition
Mike Wiggins and NFS Hot Pursuit 2 😄
I love the sound of the gear box similar to the one in m3 gtr e46
straight cut gears do that. kind of like having your wife or girlfriend in a your project car and flooring it. the faster you go the louder it gets
@Riles07 The Pagani Zonda R is actually a 6.0 L V12. The other Pagani Zondas are all a 7.3 L V12 except the Pagani Zonda C12 and the C12s, which is has a 6.0 L V12 and a 7.0 L V12 respectively. Whatever it is, the Zonda R sounds awesome!
In my opinion: Best car ever made...
im surprised he did so well in the rain. ive heard others talk about how much of a nightmare that car was to drive in just the lightest of damp conditions.
@DxExX u r right it's also about comfort,luxury,fuel efficiency and practicality...the GTR has it all.It even has 4 seats which u can really use.
Tiff and Jeremy were on Top Gear which is why Tiff is in some of Jeremy's DVDs
This is the road version of the LM car right? I think that this and the Toyota GT-ONE road cars are amazing to look at.
No, it's not the LM car. It only raced in the FIA GT Championship from 1997 to 1998. But the CLK-LM was the LM car which raced in 1998 Le Mans and also in the 1998 FIA GT Championship.
@ClubsportEvoluzione
Depends on which iteration of the Zonda we're talking about, I reckon the road going CLK-GTR would probably destroy every Zonda aside from the newer F and Cinque. A fun fact: the non street-legal Zonda R uses the same engine as the CLK-GTR race car.
Just got offered one for 10 million euros now.
Yes I'm sure fifth gear would be broadcast on the bbc (you didn't spot the logo for a whole 6m17s?).
The "host" (Tiff Needell btw) was a presenter for top gear long before fifth gear even existed. Also he is actually quite a good presenter and the only part of fifth gear which is worth watching atm.
This is the old Top Gear before they had Richard Hammond and Jason Dawes, and later on James May taking over for Jason Dawes which is the Top Gear we see today.
4:07 ama go shopp with my CLK GTR!
Love that part
That somebody allow you to drive you this superrare car in this kind of bad weather conditions. Respekt for that
Okay Am I right?
The racing CLK-GTR had a 6.0L V12 developing ~600hp
The road-going version has a 6.8L V12 developing ~660hp
The SuperSport developed by H.W.A had the 7.3L V12 making 720hp
A super fast, super good looking and super expensive masterpiece! I love this car... 🚗😍❤️💯
one of the "road wersions" was sold few weeks ago for 1.600.000 pounds.
and they also made 15 convertibles.
@SurvivorZ1 nope. The Zonda R uses an engine directly lifted from a CLK-GTR GT1
God I miss the 90’s
I wish they would put it on the current top gear track just to see how it compares to the likes of Bugatti Veyron... what a marvelous piece of engineering.
There never was a 6 liter V8 race version. The LM had 5 liter, the CLR 5,7.
Any of you guys notice how when Tiff's in the car it's nice and green outside but when the camera shows the outside, it's very snowy? :)
Yeah wtf?
Classical piece at 5:10, heard it 1000 times can't remember the name or composer, someone here knows it.
One of my favorite cars, gotta love the howling straight-cut gearbox
The most sorted GT1 road car you can get. Lovely. Much rather have that than the newer SLR Mclaren, despite the fact that its faster (for top speed anyway).
It's interesting how the market for these "hyper-cars" has changed over the decades.
The glorious 90s trio was made in only a few dozen units and if you look now, the AMG ONE alone will be build 275 times.
4:08 Just Tiff Needell things. Drifting Amg CLK GTR in snow. 🔥🔥🔥🔥
@ChrisPwaffle - WRONG. This is OLD Top Gear, which got killed off in 2000. Clarkson then revived it with Andy Wilman and recruited Richard Hammond, Jason Dawe and Perry McCarthy in 2002. Dawe was later replaced by James May and Perry McCarthy by Ben Collins.
Need for Speed Hot Pursuit made me aware of this car and I can’t let it go
it's awesome they let him test it on Hockenheim!
i want to see a race between bugatti and clk gtr super sport the 720 hp model
@MrPlagues Indeed :) but I'm pretty sure the R would eat the racing CLK, as it doesn't follow any regulations and it's engine pumps out as much power as it's possible, and other things like weight etc :)
Whats the point of the regular CLK? Just a very sporty coupe?
I'd really like to see a race between this, the SLR McLaren, and the SLS
+pokemaster123ism In terms of performance:
1-CLK GTR
2-SLR
3-SLS
SLR's top speed is the best though
I never cared for Mercedes but this car is so awesome to me.
The side note where Tiff Needell said, "no room for my golf clubs there", in reference to the small storage space in the CLK-GTR, who on earth would buy a supercar for its practicality or for that matter to play golf. A golf player definitely wouldn't turn up to their local club in a supercar, that's for sure 😂