PURE ROCK & ROLL.
Mercedes, please send a sample for a long term test.

Please get rid of that ricer wing!! WTF!

if anyone lives in Monte Carlo, go find his house and take pictures.

I agree gmgod. That wing is atrocious.

Anyone know how the tach and speedometer works?

The Tach has a digital needle or bar and the speedo needle runs in a tiny slot between the speedo numbers and the tach numbers

Or the speedo needle runs behind the dial and is then bent over the edge of the speedo

Oh my god that thing is good looking. Would love to pay through the nose to own one!

Some rock star somewhere is actually ordering one. Sigh.

Gentlemen who suggested they “lose the ricer wing:”
at 187 (or 225) mph, this racecar needs everything it can get to stick it to the ground. This isn’t exactly like strapping a double-surface aluminum wing on a 140 hp FWD Cavalier.
Being inspired by the DTM racecars (which, by the way, have MUCH larger wings), it isn’t surprising that they chose that type (or size) of spoiler.
In other words, it isn’t there to MAKE it look fast. The car already IS fast.
In my opinion this should have been equipped with a retractable hardtop instead of the ragtop.

-David

But they certainly could’ve picked a wing that feels congruent to the design of the car. At the very least paint the damn thing silve so it doesn’t look as obtrusive.

this thing is 350k USD. the SL 65 AMG is 186k USD. But the SL only reaches 60 in 4.2 secs. in my opinion i’d rather save the 160k. yet there are only 100 CLK DTMs produced. what do you guys think?

MOD a retractable hardtop would have given this car a fat ass and strange shut lines around the rear end and bumbed up the curb weight too

[...] Left Lane News post on the 2007 Mercedes CLK DTM AMG Cabriolet with more detail and bigger pictures. [...]

What does DTM stand for? Damn, that Mercedes!!??

DTM stands for Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters (German Touring Car Championship) which Mercedes participates in. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Tourenwagen_Masters

That wing is functional fellas. This isn’t a civic. That car looks great.

this isnt nascar guys. wings are not just for ricers. wings like those are common in the rallying.

that’s a lot of letters.

craig, you just made my day.

the car is beautiful

the coupe was the only mercedes i liked. im a huge bimmer fan. and i think MB just ruined a great car.

shame it a rag top not a fold back hard top apart from that its sweet

Work of art, prefered the coupe – power delivery was brutal and handling was sublime, but can see the appeal of a rag top – Especially in Monaco.

Why do Yanks call everything with a wing ‘rice’? Its German! And it’s functional. Do you point at a Lotus Exige and call it Rice?? Mind you, decent car’s are all illegal in the states anyway… Even the F430 had to be granted special dispensation to be sold there

animal – Here in the US, people don’t have taste.

agreed

heck of a car, but in my opinion, and I’m not American, the DTM treatment does look ricer. The spoiler is awful, and a functional spoiler does not have to look like that, it can be shaped to accomodate the lines of the car or make it a retractable spoiler like the Carrera’s.

This might just be one of the most pointless cars ever invented. Hot, but pointless.

wickedated — The car wasn’t originally designed to have a wing, so any wing that is added will not fit the lines of the car. Its not made to look good, its made to keep it on the ground!

your sick dude

why does the coupe version have 20 kms/h more in the original (i mean without any modification) car’s top speed?
i love how this car looks with the spoiler, it gives it a mean look that would make any racer **** his pants when it comes to racing this car…