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Of all the car shows around the calendar year, the
Boca Raton Concours d'Elegance doesn't typically fall on our radar screen. But maybe it should, because the annual event in Florida - young as it is - has a history of offering firsts. Maybe not the first time a vehicle is seen in North America, mind you, but a first just the same.
Last year the event included the sale of the first examples of the
Ferrari FF,
Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG Roadster and
Audi R8 GT to be delivered in America. The year
before that, it was the
Audi R8 5.2 FSI (yeah, that's the one with the V10) and
Ferrari California. And before that, the event's auctioneers sold off the first
Audi R8 Spyder,
Ferrari 458 Italia and
Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG.
Noticing a pattern here? Organizers have no intention of dropping the ball this year, when they'll be auctioning off the first U.S. deliveries of the new
Mercedes-Benz SL63 AMG. Now if you're thinking that we haven't even seen the new SL63 AMG yet, you're absolutely right. The new
SL itself has been shown, but not the AMG version, which is expected to pack Affalterbach's 5.5-liter twin-turbo V8 with 571 horsepower on tap. Once the car has been unveiled and deliveries commence, the winner of the auction is guaranteed to be the first to get one in the United States.
As if that's not enough, there will also be an
Audi R8 GT Spyder - one of only 50 slated for production and the only one in red to be made available in the U.S. - as well as a
Lamborghini Aventador and a whole mess of special-edition Shelby muscle cars, with proceeds going to the Boys & Girls Clubs of America. Follow
the link for more info, or head down on February 25th to see the bidding frenzy at the Boca Raton Resort & Club.
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