{"id":498818,"date":"2010-03-31T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/03\/31\/followup-hamiltons-hoontastic-mercedes-benz-c63-amg-slated-for\/"},"modified":"2010-03-31T20:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-01T00:00:00","slug":"followup-hamiltons-hoontastic-mercedes-benz-c63-amg-slated-for-charity-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/498818","title":{"rendered":"Followup: Hamilton’s Hoontastic Mercedes-Benz C63 AMG slated for charity auction?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Even when McLaren makes mistakes, it makes money. Lewis Hamilton was busted<\/a> putting a little<\/strike> a lotta extra temperature into the tires of a Mercedes-Benz C63 AMG<\/a> loaned to him during his stay in Melbourne for the Australian Grand Prix<\/a>. The car was impounded by the Victorian State Police, Lewis paid a fine to remedy his deed and McLaren paid to get the car out. <\/p>\n

Turns out there are so many buyers interested in owning said car that Mercedes dealers are bidding to win the car so they can re-sell it. Tips suggest the dealers will have to pay a healthy slice more than the $AUD 148,900 ($136,198 USD) MSRP, and Mercedes will donate any amount above market value to charity. The eventual retail, however, will add another premium above what the dealer paid, and it’s a good guess that the dealer won’t be donating that money to charity. For that extra dough, the retail buyer will get a surprise “special item” to help tell the story… and maybe justify a markup likely to be on the far side of absurd. Great tip, Andrew! <\/em><\/p>\n

[Source: Brisbane Times<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Followup: Hamilton’s Hoontastic Mercedes-Benz C63 AMG slated for charity auction?<\/a> originally appeared on Autoblog<\/a> on Wed, 31 Mar 2010 19:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Filed under: Motorsports, Auctions, Etc., Australia Even when McLaren makes mistakes, it makes money. Lewis Hamilton was busted putting a little a lotta extra temperature into the tires of a Mercedes-Benz C63 AMG loaned to him during his stay in Melbourne for the Australian Grand Prix. The car was impounded by the Victorian State Police, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-498818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}