Rare 80s Isdera Supercar Up For Sale: It Could Be A Mercedes

2023 Author: Natalie MacDonald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-05-21 02:36

The little-known IsderImperator 108i coupe is up for sale at Bonhams in Monaco - one of only 30 ever assembled. Initially, the supercar was designed for production under the Mercedes-Benz brand, but the German firm was not impressed with the design. This is how the Isdera brand was born.

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• In 1978, a young engineer, Eberhard Schultz, then at Porsche, built a prototype of a mid-engined coupe of his own design - he named the car the Mercedes-Benz CW311. However, Mercedes-Benz refused to participate in the development of the project, and Schultz created his own company, Isdera, in order to bring the concept to at least a conditionally serial stage.
• The first conveyor coupes, called the Imperator 108i, were built by the mid-1980s and, like the prototype, were powered by AMG eight-cylinder engines. The company produced them until 1993, by the end of this period, having slightly changed the design of the supercar - for example, the coupe got pop-up headlights and lost the extravagant rear-view mirror on the roof. The copy put up for sale is already restyled, made in 1991.
• The supercar is powered by a five-liter V8 from Mercedes-AMG mated to a five-speed ZF manual transmission. The engine recoil is not named, but with such a motor, the IsderImperator 108i could accelerate to 100 km / h in about 5 seconds at a top speed of 283 km / h.
• The auction house assumes that for an exotic mid-engined coupe it will be possible to gain from 500 to 700 thousand euros (from 45 to 63 million rubles).

• At the end of last year, an even rarer Isder model, a one-of-a-kind Commendatore 112i prototype, was up for auction. As a result, 1,113,125 euros (99.94 million rubles) were paid for the rarity.