The CLK DTM is the Secret Mercedes Beast!

The CLK DTM is one of the rarest and most unknown Mercedes-Benz cars ever! Only 100 units of the Coupe were ever made, a car that celebrated the domination of the team in the DTM championship. While to many it's a 'secret' and largely unknown, to drive it's something really special, as I've been lucky enough to do at the Mercedes-Benz Museum Dream Cars event!

After immense successes in the DTM championships, following the 2003 win, the team at Mercedes went about creating a road variant to be put into desperately limited production. Only 100 Coupes and then 80 Convertibles were ever made, and of those only a handful were painted in the stunning deep red paintwork of this example retained by the Mercedes-Benz Museum having served duty back at the time on the press fleet. Bernd Schneider, 5 times DTM champion, played a significant part in the development of the car, along with the SLS AMG Black Series and more.

It's powered by the 5.4l supercharged V8 making 582hp (574bhp) and 800nm, a derivative of the engine found in the SLR, and capable of a top speed of 320km/h (200mph) with 0-100km/h (62mph) taking just 4.1 seconds, with the power going to the rear wheels through a 5-speed automated manual gearbox.

The exterior stands out thanks to the wide and aggressive arches over the normal CLK body shape, while the interior strips everything away leaving full carbon door cards and a rear bench of sheet carbon behind the support brace. Originally the car cost €236,000 and all were sold prior to reveal, but finding one on the current market is both very difficult and of course carries a hefty price tag.

Thanks for watching, Tim

[Shmee]

The CLK DTM is one of the least well known, rarest Mercedes-Benz models to have been made. It celebrating their immense success in the DTM, and looks awesome with the wide arches and totally stripped out interior. Normally they are silver or black, but how good does this look?!

[idknils]

That generation CL, CLK and SL are some of, if not the best looking mercs ever build

[jassi_ahluwalia]

Love the iconic cars from Mercedes especially the 300 SL, SLS AMG Black Series and CLK DTM!

[cxdytyrant]

You Know it's Fast when it has DTM in the Name.

[Madira]

Can you please review the 190E 2.5-16 Cosworth Evolution ll

[alaind]

Would be a great ad on to the shmee collection

[pirkkaruuska]

1:50 I am pretty sure that the DTM uses a 5G-Tronic with Speedshift. It is not an automated sequential manual transmission.

[claytonmorrison]

This is my favorite channel to watch out of all the car channel cause u actually drive the cars and talk us around its almost like being there with u. I like the other channel but they have gotten away from drive the cars its mostly show now. Keep up the hard work and keep being ur self. Cheers

[aurelien.bvideos]

The color on this CLK DTM is amazing, we see most of them in silver or black .

[swb]

*2030*
Son: what’s that sound coming from the front!?
Dad: that’s an engine son.

[Hannes_Gaenzler]

The passenger window view is really great to show the real speed. You should use this more often. Great video!

[iMidnightMonster]

I love how Tim mentioned Doug DeMuro’s review!

[zebra]

Respect to Tim to reply to all the squad. What a guy. No1. Cheers.

[simbone]

The CLK DTM is a very, very special car. I remember when it was launched. The car is limited and the rumour going around at the time was that it was due to the Mercedes McLaren SLR... Both were launched at similar times and share a lot of engine commonality (more than either McLaren or AMG would care to admit). Whispers were going around that the DTM actually out-performed the SLR, so internal politics dictated that the DTM would have to have a limiter. Mercedes always denied this was the case, but it was always viewed internally as AMG's (two-fingered) response to the SLR (for a vastly different price point).

[TWEECH]

I smell as gt black series first drive coming :)

[antoniobatista]

6:45 7:16 8:24 Listening the owl... Beautiful noise, the best of is kind

[wateringcan]

coincidence? I watched doug's video on the CLK DTM today and got it recommended

[revinot]

One of my favourite features of CLs and CLKs of this generation is the pillarless windows meaning once all four windows are down you have a giant opening on the side profile of the car which looks pretty cool.

[Treesuss]

Really enjoyed this! Loving all the AMG content. So many interesting cars over the years.

[Jimmythefish]

Really liking the shots from outside, adds a whole different dimension to the videos. Nice to see what the cars look and sound like from outside.