The question of what a Formula 1 star drives when he is not on the track is always of great interest. For Michael Schumacher, between January and July 2010, the answer was this 2010 Mercedes-Benz C63 AMG Estate, which is now for sale.
Loaned to Schumacher when he joined the newly formed Mercedes GP Petronas Formula One team that would go on to become a dominant force in F1, the car was registered to Mercedes-Benz AG in Schlieren, Switzerland and handed over to Schumacher to drive .
The car, finished in black with a black leather interior, is very luxuriously equipped. So much so that if Schumacher had paid out of his own pocket, the options fitted to the car would have added €20,000 to his bill, or the equivalent of nearly €23,000 in today’s money ($25,981 at current exchange rates). Not that it would have been a problem for him, of course…
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After using the car, it passed to a Swiss owner who clocked the majority of the car’s miles between 2011 and 2015 before selling it to a Mercedes-Benz engineer in Germany. They restored it to excellent condition despite changing all four wheels. There is no explanation, but could they be contained?
By 2018 it was sold to the current seller who claims to have only used the car in the summer months and describes it as in generally good condition and has returned an MOT passed in March 2021 with no clues.
Currently sold at 94,382 miles (151,894 km), Bonhams, which is handling the sale of the vehicle at its Les Grandes Marques du Monde auction in Paris, says the car will be fitted with four new tires and undergo a Mercedes-Benz pre-sale inspection . Their estimates suggest this 2010 Mercedes-Benz C63 AMG Estate could cost anywhere from $57,000 to $110,000.
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