If you want to beef up your car collection then this announcement is for you. This January, a rare Aston Martin DB4 GT is going up for auction at RM Auctions in Scottsdale, Ariz. True car lovers might not want to pass this up since this DB4 GT is the last of the 75 competition DB4s built between 1959 and 1963. The road car was unveiled at the Paris Salon in 1958. A year later, the competition version followed and was displayed at the London Motor Show. Continued after the jump!

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At an auction last week, two rare 720bhp Mercedes-Benz CLK GTR supercars were bought for more than £1 million. These two cars were included in the 26 examples (20 coupes and six roadsters) of the GT1 racecar-derived machine that were made for the road in the late 1990s.

The 2006 Mercedes-Benz CLK GTR Roadster was the only right-hand drive example built and it was the top sale of the auction that evening, selling for £616,000. The coupe was sold for £522,500. These two cars were speculated to have come from the collection of Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah of Brunei. The coupe was estimated to be priced at £370-390,000, while the roadster estimate was £430,000-£500,000, about a third of what they cost new. The CLK GTR was modified only slightly from the racecar. It is powered by an Ilmor modified 720bhp 6.9-litre naturally aspirated V12 engine with dual overhead camshafts. It is claimed to have 572lb ft of torque and an acceleration time of 3.4sec to achieve 0-62mph. Photo gallery after the jump!

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