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Mercedes CLK GTR #10 Warsteiner 1999 Maisto 1:18

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Mercedes CLK GTR #10 Warsteiner 1999 Maisto 1:18 38848 Diecast
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Maisto's 1:18 diecast Mercedes CLK GTR reproduces the #10 Warsteiner-liveried race car, built by AMG for FIA GT1 competition in the late 1990s. The CLK GTR's road-going homologation version was one of the most extreme street-legal cars ever built from a pure racing programme. Opening doors and solid diecast construction bring this dominant GT racer to the shelf.
Mercedes CLK GTR #10 Warsteiner 1999 Maisto 1:18
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Car Brand
Mercedes
Model Manufacturer
Maisto
Scale
1:18
Material
Diecast
Model Condition
Used Model
SKU
38848
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About the Mercedes CLK GTR #10 Warsteiner 1999 Maisto 1:18

TL;DR: Maisto's 1:18 Mercedes CLK GTR wears the #10 Warsteiner livery from AMG's late-1990s FIA GT1 racing programme. The diecast body opens at the doors, and the model reproduces a car built to homologate one of the most extreme street-legal machines ever derived directly from a factory racing effort.

AMG built the CLK GTR to contest the FIA GT1 championship in 1997, and under the rules of the day a road-going version had to exist for homologation purposes, resulting in one of the most uncompromising street-legal cars ever to carry number plates. Maisto's 1:18 casting wears the #10 Warsteiner livery from the car's championship-winning racing programme.

Maisto's 1:18 Mercedes CLK GTR in #10 Warsteiner Livery

Racing Graphics and an Opening Cockpit

The Warsteiner branding runs across the doors, bonnet and rear wing exactly as it appeared on the works car, with the number 10 positioned prominently on the flanks and roof in period-correct style. The doors open on this casting, swinging upward through their arc and settling cleanly, echoing the real car's distinctive upward-hinged door design that set it apart visually from a conventional racing coupe. Mercedes silver and the Warsteiner green and gold accents are reproduced with clean separation between colours, and the aggressive aerodynamic addenda, the deep front splitter, side skirts and towering rear wing, are all represented with enough definition to convey the car's purpose-built racing intent.

Diecast Weight on a Purpose-Built Racer

This is accessible zinc alloy diecast rather than a limited-run resin reproduction, and the weight reflects that construction choice, giving the model real heft without the finer cockpit detailing a premium race-replica builder might provide. Maisto has focused the detail budget on the exterior, where the livery and bodywork shape do the heavy lifting for a racing subject like this, and the result is a model that reads correctly from display distance even if close inspection reveals the simpler interior and underside typical of this price tier.

AMG's FIA GT1 Dominance

A Homologation Special Built to Win

The CLK GTR was developed specifically to contest the FIA GT championship's top GT1 class, built around a carbon-fibre monocoque and a mid-mounted V12 engine positioned for optimal weight distribution, a layout closer to a prototype racer than a conventional road car. To satisfy homologation rules requiring a road-legal version, Mercedes and AMG produced a tiny run of street CLK GTRs, cars that retained most of the racing machine's extreme engineering and became some of the most expensive and impractical road cars of their era. The racing version, campaigned through the late 1990s, proved dominant almost immediately, winning the FIA GT1 title in its debut season against serious factory competition from other manufacturers.

A Short, Successful Racing Life

AMG's CLK GTR programme ran for only a few seasons before FIA GT1 regulations shifted and manufacturer interest moved elsewhere, but in that brief window the car established itself as one of the class's most formidable entries, its combination of prototype-derived engineering and homologation-special road presence giving it a reputation few GT racers of any era have matched. For a collection built around 1990s GT racing, the CLK GTR occupies a genuinely significant position, bridging the gap between road car and out-and-out racing prototype in a way regulations no longer permit today.

A GT Racer Worth a Prominent Shelf Spot

At 1:18, the CLK GTR's long tail, deep front splitter and towering rear wing give it a dramatic footprint that benefits from a clear sightline rather than being tucked between taller road cars. It sits naturally alongside other late-1990s FIA GT1 entries, where its Warsteiner livery provides an immediate visual contrast to rival manufacturer colours from the same championship seasons. As accessible Maisto diecast, it will not satisfy a collector chasing hand-finished resin accuracy, but it delivers a correctly liveried, reasonably detailed reproduction of a genuinely important late-1990s racing programme at a price that makes building a wider GT1 grid realistic. Few road or racing cars from this era carry quite the same engineering story.

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