268 MPH Mercedes Lotec C1000 Found Hiding In North Carolina Dealership - Jalopnik Comments

268 MPH Mercedes Lotec C1000 Found Hiding In North Carolina Dealership

bigradical — Tue, 20 May 2008 02:09:48 EDT

I haven't actually see this car but I do know the guy that owns the dealership the car is at. I think they're only asking 1,475,000 for it, lol. He also has a Porsche Carerra GT and a Noble that I have actually seen and sat in. He's a super nice guy!

bigradical

268 MPH Mercedes Lotec C1000 Found Hiding In North Carolina Dealership

escapenguin — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 22:37:02 EDT

Gallery doesn't work so hot with Firefox 3 beta.

This is such a hack job. It's almost as if the same person built every part of the car. Just goes to show, not always a good thing to have an engineer handle everything.

escapenguin

268 MPH Mercedes Lotec C1000 Found Hiding In North Carolina Dealership

Racingindrag — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 13:30:14 EDT

Pimp My Ride season 2009:

"Sheneneh, check out your brandnew riiiiiide!!!"

(10.000 X "OMG!!!", grouphugs & hysterical tears)

Racingindrag

268 MPH Mercedes Lotec C1000 Found Hiding In North Carolina Dealership

Stuntdriver — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:34:50 EDT

ups...slow server...

Stuntdriver

268 MPH Mercedes Lotec C1000 Found Hiding In North Carolina Dealership

Stuntdriver — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:34:35 EDT

junkyard find...in dubai..

Stuntdriver

268 MPH Mercedes Lotec C1000 Found Hiding In North Carolina Dealership

Stuntdriver — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:33:56 EDT

@Eric Merrill:

or maybe a junkyard find in dubai... :)

Stuntdriver

268 MPH Mercedes Lotec C1000 Found Hiding In North Carolina Dealership

Eric Merrill — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 02:29:25 EDT

After another few years of obscurity and depreciation, this will become the Jalopnik company car.

Murilee will pick it up in a trade involving a couple vintage car logos and a box of rice crispies.

Eric Merrill

268 MPH Mercedes Lotec C1000 Found Hiding In North Carolina Dealership

superveloce — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 00:56:43 EDT

Sweet Alfa 164 tail lamps!

superveloce

268 MPH Mercedes Lotec C1000 Found Hiding In North Carolina Dealership

econobiker — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 23:18:55 EDT

Somebody please, please buy this car and put it into a barn for about 25 years...

This has "formerly owned by famous NASCAR driver now incredible barn find car" written all over it plus it is alot closer to a bunch of soon to be un-used tobacco drying barns down there in Concord, NC...

econobiker

268 MPH Mercedes Lotec C1000 Found Hiding In North Carolina Dealership

deus ex wagon — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 22:02:38 EDT

@skulldriveshaft: Not quite as challenging as our resident Terminator. Wes Siler FTW

deus ex wagon

268 MPH Mercedes Lotec C1000 Found Hiding In North Carolina Dealership

skulldriveshaft — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 20:10:20 EDT

This is a future PCH entry.

skulldriveshaft

268 MPH Mercedes Lotec C1000 Found Hiding In North Carolina Dealership

marc2068 — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 19:58:32 EDT

wtf, 5sp, 1000 hp, WTF,1995!!!!

marc2068

268 MPH Mercedes Lotec C1000 Found Hiding In North Carolina Dealership

Turboner — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 19:36:37 EDT

Too fast for the Tappet Bros, but not me.

Turboner

268 MPH Mercedes Lotec C1000 Found Hiding In North Carolina Dealership

DoctorNine — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 19:12:30 EDT

I'm sure I saw George Jetson in this one Saturday when I was about 12.

DoctorNine

268 MPH Mercedes Lotec C1000 Found Hiding In North Carolina Dealership

Nurburgringer — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:48:00 EDT

put in in the fantasy garage!
Looks are fantastic - hell Pagani copied the front end, 962 inspired greenhouse and interior, rear-end like nothing else except maybe a 340R Lotus crossed with a Porsche GT1.

Getting in if your date's wearing a miniskirt would be interesting - she'd have to swing both legs in at once like she was on a set of parallel bars...

Nurburgringer

268 MPH Mercedes Lotec C1000 Found Hiding In North Carolina Dealership

cargogh — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:36:09 EDT

I was considering it, but the steering wheel looks to be centered over the the armrest. At 268 mph I need better ergonomics than it appears to offer.

cargogh

268 MPH Mercedes Lotec C1000 Found Hiding In North Carolina Dealership

elwood — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:19:37 EDT

I really wish I had $3.4 million to commission a car. I'm thinking a smattering of the best motorsports parts (restrictorless LeMans GT1-class engine, F1 gearbox, F1 suspension bits) in a carbon fiber monocoque chassis and a sexy body. For $3.4 million you could probably get Pininfarina to design you something nice. Oh yeah, and a real interior too.

elwood

268 MPH Mercedes Lotec C1000 Found Hiding In North Carolina Dealership

nyoh-ohio — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:55:46 EDT

i remember when it was on ebay, i also remember how it is almost as ugly as the ford gt90 [images.forum-auto.com]

nyoh-ohio

268 MPH Mercedes Lotec C1000 Found Hiding In North Carolina Dealership

yellofury * * * * * — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:21:10 EDT

I wanted to hate this thing but damn lookit that rear end!!!!I want

yellofury * * * * *

268 MPH Mercedes Lotec C1000 Found Hiding In North Carolina Dealership

voodoojoo — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:21:11 EDT

@Novaload: That Jalopnik inspired another one of my 'But all of existence is absurd!" mind-explosions means that today is a good day.

voodoojoo

268 MPH Mercedes Lotec C1000 Found Hiding In North Carolina Dealership

944turb0 — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:15:15 EDT

That thing used to live in a Hummer dealership around here. It was moved before I ever got to see it. ;_; They wanted 1.6 million for it, or something. I nearly shat myself when I saw it go for like $250k on BJ.

944turb0

268 MPH Mercedes Lotec C1000 Found Hiding In North Carolina Dealership

comedian — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:11:28 EDT

Maybe you have to crack the car in half to replace the clutch?

comedian

268 MPH Mercedes Lotec C1000 Found Hiding In North Carolina Dealership

yachius — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:10:23 EDT

200+ mph with a 5 speed? 0-60 in 3.2-seconds and 0-125 in 8.1 seconds?

Somebody want to clear up the gear ratios here? Seems like it would take an awfully long time to hit any really high speeds.

yachius

268 MPH Mercedes Lotec C1000 Found Hiding In North Carolina Dealership

orangeroller — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:03:15 EDT

hmmm.... i smell a rat in the form of a thinly veiled race car. interior says it all. and the engine. and the profuse use of carbon fibre in a 95. and the obscenely wide tires on bbs looking rims with center locks. and the shape that screams contemporary day daytona prototype.

orangeroller

268 MPH Mercedes Lotec C1000 Found Hiding In North Carolina Dealership

Stuntdriver — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:59:49 EDT

-Steffan Ericsson: mmm...that car looks strange..but it has 1000hp...seems fast...
do you mind if i have a test drive?..

-Car salesman: Sure...no problem...

Stuntdriver

268 MPH Mercedes Lotec C1000 Found Hiding In North Carolina Dealership

megacab57 — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:41:40 EDT

Gap insurance anyone ????

megacab57

268 MPH Mercedes Lotec C1000 Found Hiding In North Carolina Dealership

Placebo — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:27:05 EDT

Lotec? That engine looks a little high-tech to me.

If Jill Wagner is in those shots, I sure can't see her.

Placebo

268 MPH Mercedes Lotec C1000 Found Hiding In North Carolina Dealership

Bazza — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:14:16 EDT

it takes about three times the length of runway too reach that top speed, but it is theoretically a more capable car.

Bazza

268 MPH Mercedes Lotec C1000 Found Hiding In North Carolina Dealership

NovaloadMissesPolar — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:02:10 EDT

@voodoojoo: So Camus and Kafka walk into a dealership in North Carolina and Kafka says, "That looks like a grotesque insect" and Camus nods, shakes his head and murmurs. "Oui. It's absurd."
"What's absurd?"
"That it is here in NC. That it is a one-off no one wanted. That it exists at all."

NovaloadMissesPolar

268 MPH Mercedes Lotec C1000 Found Hiding In North Carolina Dealership

markov - type gna(R) — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 13:51:01 EDT

@БЯд╒╒ ®:

...No one can drive straight!

markov - type gna(R)

268 MPH Mercedes Lotec C1000 Found Hiding In North Carolina Dealership

teargas — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 13:39:09 EDT

I remember seeing this sell at Barret-Jackson and then checking it out afterward. All I could muster was that Lotec was the worst name for a supercar "manufacturer" ever.

teargas

268 MPH Mercedes Lotec C1000 Found Hiding In North Carolina Dealership

dedler — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 13:38:27 EDT

does anyone else see a serious similarity between this and the Zonda?
i think this car obviously made a big impression on a younger Haracio Pagani...

dedler

268 MPH Mercedes Lotec C1000 Found Hiding In North Carolina Dealership

CEman — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 13:32:27 EDT

Why am I thinking those were 'estimated' performance numbers?

WTF is up wid the interior? All that zoom and you have to look at that?

CEman

268 MPH Mercedes Lotec C1000 Found Hiding In North Carolina Dealership

voodoojoo — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 13:21:27 EDT

@voodoojoo: That is, could do a better job of description than I.

voodoojoo

268 MPH Mercedes Lotec C1000 Found Hiding In North Carolina Dealership

voodoojoo — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 13:20:41 EDT

This car looks absurd. I'm sure Kafka or Camus could do a better job than I. I'm still getting flashbacks to Die Sorge des Housvaters. Odradek!!

voodoojoo

268 MPH Mercedes Lotec C1000 Found Hiding In North Carolina Dealership

poxpopulus — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 13:11:31 EDT

Would have been much more interesting if it had been a Denver DOTS.

poxpopulus

268 MPH Mercedes Lotec C1000 Found Hiding In North Carolina Dealership

SLR_BlowerMania — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 13:10:54 EDT

Looks like it's in for it's 3k mile "tune up".

SLR_BlowerMania

268 MPH Mercedes Lotec C1000 Found Hiding In North Carolina Dealership

LuciferV8 — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 13:04:45 EDT

It's a nice car, but not a $3.4 million nice car. $250 K is appropriate.

LuciferV8

268 MPH Mercedes Lotec C1000 Found Hiding In North Carolina Dealership

SundaySunday — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:47:37 EDT

@Bad Juju: Well done. I was going to tie this into a PCH comment, but your comment is better than I could muster.

SundaySunday

268 MPH Mercedes Lotec C1000 Found Hiding In North Carolina Dealership

Sloop_John_B — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:33:04 EDT

The back 3/4 angle shot is nice, but the front looks like somebody stomped on the head of a four eyed bull frog.

Sloop_John_B

268 MPH Mercedes Lotec C1000 Found Hiding In North Carolina Dealership

elwood — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:54:44 EDT

@Vipper Of Vipp: Yeah, that's the one thing that astonishes me about this car. Even though the exterior is ugly, it at least doesn't look like it was made by amateurs. The interior, however, looks like they spent about $500 out of that $3.4 million on designing and building it. It's honestly closer to something a person would build in their garage to a supercar cockpit.

elwood

268 MPH Mercedes Lotec C1000 Found Hiding In North Carolina Dealership

beercheck — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:54:40 EDT

I think it looks awesome. Well, not the interior and '68 International Harvester dashboard. But the exterior...yeah, baby.

beercheck

268 MPH Mercedes Lotec C1000 Found Hiding In North Carolina Dealership

Bad Juju — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:52:13 EDT

Where's the competitor? I thought this was PCH.. Anybody seen Agassi's BBQ's Vector lately?

Bad Juju

268 MPH Mercedes Lotec C1000 Found Hiding In North Carolina Dealership

JoSCh — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:50:30 EDT

At that rate of depreciation I should be able to pick it up for the price of a Civic in three weeks.

JoSCh

268 MPH Mercedes Lotec C1000 Found Hiding In North Carolina Dealership

OldeEnglishD misses Polar — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:40:06 EDT

Do you guys remember that scene in Forrest Gump where Forrest is getting picked on and Jenny tells him to run? He takes off and somehow is faster than Carl Lewis, and everyone is like, "Wow that funny looking retarded kid sure is fast!" That's the feeling I get here, "Wow that funny looking retarded car sure is fast."

OldeEnglishD misses Polar

268 MPH Mercedes Lotec C1000 Found Hiding In North Carolina Dealership

goatrope — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:39:53 EDT

Looks home-made.

Needs more Bruce.

goatrope

268 MPH Mercedes Lotec C1000 Found Hiding In North Carolina Dealership

Steel_ETC — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:38:57 EDT

Lotec provided the ultimate in vaporware supercars and one-off prototypes for much of the 1990s. And they were all ugly. After this car they built another design, called the Sirius, which used a twin-turbo BMW V12 and never got beyond a single example, but they claimed a top speed of 275mph when the Sirius did the autoshow circuit. Yeah right...

Steel_ETC

268 MPH Mercedes Lotec C1000 Found Hiding In North Carolina Dealership

Braff is Thad Longlove — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:36:10 EDT

Needs more "car is actually the ghost of my dead brother returned for vegence" behind the wheel...

Braff is Thad Longlove

268 MPH Mercedes Lotec C1000 Found Hiding In North Carolina Dealership

Vipper Of Vipp — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:35:41 EDT

I rather liked it until I saw the magenta leather interior and the dashboard fabricated by some high school shop class.

Vipper Of Vipp

268 MPH Mercedes Lotec C1000 Found Hiding In North Carolina Dealership

acarr260 — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:35:06 EDT

@bmoredlj: ... and a wagon version - in p*ssy magnet yellow.

acarr260

268 MPH Mercedes Lotec C1000 Found Hiding In North Carolina Dealership

acarr260 — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:33:49 EDT

That's some serious depreciation. I'd go pick it up, but I need something with more than one seat (where would my weim sit and stick her head out of the window?!). Oh... and I would need some of that FU money that was discussed in the thread regarding the Sultan.

acarr260

268 MPH Mercedes Lotec C1000 Found Hiding In North Carolina Dealership

muleshoe — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:33:47 EDT

268 MPH will leave skid marks in your shorts

muleshoe

268 MPH Mercedes Lotec C1000 Found Hiding In North Carolina Dealership

stuntpuppy — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:33:46 EDT

I like that little orange button is on the driver's seat armrest/bolster. I have convinced myself that it is for the driver's ejection seat that would be necessary to survive a crash once this thing hits "ludicrous speed."

stuntpuppy

268 MPH Mercedes Lotec C1000 Found Hiding In North Carolina Dealership

elwood — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:33:42 EDT

The car's ugly as sin (interior and exterior), but that engine shot is hawt sex. I love the carbon fiber intake manifold.

elwood

268 MPH Mercedes Lotec C1000 Found Hiding In North Carolina Dealership

oneswellfoop — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:31:53 EDT

i bet there's a fiero chassis underneath.

oneswellfoop

268 MPH Mercedes Lotec C1000 Found Hiding In North Carolina Dealership

Dankir — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:25:35 EDT

Wasn't this sold recently at a Barret Jackson Auction? I swear I remember this one being sold for like $250,000

Dankir

268 MPH Mercedes Lotec C1000 Found Hiding In North Carolina Dealership

Isetta — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:25:16 EDT

Concord, NC (no e) is right in the heart of NASCAR country. Numerous drivers, owners, etc. live in or within a stone's throw of this small burg. I suspect there is a connection here if someone does a little digging.

Isetta

268 MPH Mercedes Lotec C1000 Found Hiding In North Carolina Dealership

13thfloorelevator — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:25:14 EDT

That's what a Noble would look like if it won the lottery.

13thfloorelevator

268 MPH Mercedes Lotec C1000 Found Hiding In North Carolina Dealership

bmoredlj — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:24:22 EDT

Didn't the Sultan of Brunei have a shooting brake version of this?

bmoredlj

268 MPH Mercedes Lotec C1000 Found Hiding In North Carolina Dealership

EDogII — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:23:15 EDT

the entire is the suck

EDogII

268 MPH Mercedes Lotec C1000 Found Hiding In North Carolina Dealership

wookie1901 — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:21:08 EDT

At Least it looks like most of the pieces are accounted for. Sorry guys, doesn't look lie it jumped a river, still shiny side up.

Man, those are some amazing numbers. Not only now, but especaially for '95.

I kinda like the looks. I mean, its no 8C, but it sorta looks like a super-duper 911. Which is weird since it's a MB.

This is a great super oddball Jalop-type find.

wookie1901

268 MPH Mercedes Lotec C1000 Found Hiding In North Carolina Dealership

TheBrewPub — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:20:29 EDT

Do they finance? 60 months 0%?

TheBrewPub

268 MPH Mercedes Lotec C1000 Found Hiding In North Carolina Dealership

dwegmull — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:17:59 EDT

Now, that's what I call depreciation!

dwegmull

268 MPH Mercedes Lotec C1000 Found Hiding In North Carolina Dealership

layabout — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:16:08 EDT

Fast,but looks like ass

layabout