Mercedes C-Class

==Description==
In April 1994, Mercedes-Benz won its first German Touring Championship (DTM) victory with the car based on the new W202 C-Class.  In 1995, a new European racing series began: the International Touring Car Championship (ITC). Mercedes-Benz entered that year’s competition with a C-Class touring car, tuned by AMG, its performance tuning division. The car’s unibody construction based on the production road car formed a single structure together with the integrated roll cage, giving this new generation of racing touring cars up to 300% greater rigidity than earlier cars. Klaus Ludwig finished first on the drivers’ standings in 1994’s DTM and Mercedes won its fourth consecutive constructor title. Bernd Schneider won the DTM and ITC Championships in 1995, and Mercedes-Benz took the constructors title in both series. During the years between 1986 and 1996, Mercedes-Benz and AMG, was the constructor with the most victories over the entire DTC/ITC period, with its 190 E and C-Class cars. Mercedes had earned 84 wins, 4 drivers’ and 5 constructors’ titles, and were runners-up for the constructors’ title 10 times.
Hot Wheels’ car represents the first generation of the successor to the 190 (W201) “Baby Benz”. This new W202 Chassis was produced from 1993 to 2000. The casting is designed as it would have been prepared by AMG to homologate cars for the current DTM and later ITC Racing Series, with cast racing aero and performance kit which included wing, side skirts, fender flares, air dam, side air intakes for brake cooling, road-hugging suspension and roll-bar. The air dam is cast at a high angle from horizontal to make the car perform well on Hot Wheels tracks.
==Versions==
The Mercedes C-Class has come out in the following versions:
Col #	Year	Series 	Color 	Tampo 	Base Color / Type 	Window Color	Interior Color	Wheel Type	Toy #	Country 	Notes 	Photo
516 	1997	1997 First Editions1/120	Black 	Silver "3", "Mercedes-Benz", Hot Wheels logo 	Gray/Plastic 	Clear 	Gray 	LW Gold 	16669	Malaysia	 	
726 	1998	Race Team IV2/4 	Metalflake Blue	Hot Wheels Race Team Design, "1" 	Metalflake dark blue/Plastic	Grey tint 	White 	5SP 	18792	Thailand	 	
945 	1999	X-Ray Cruiser1/4 	Met. Black 	Purple & Silver x-ray graphics 	Black/Plastic 	Yellow tint 	White 	Gold LW 	21104	Malaysia	Design not approved, later removed from lineup and replaced with '63 Corvette	75px
1015 	1999	Mainline 	Yellow 	tiny Black Hot Wheels Logo 	Black/Plastic 	Clear 	Red 	LW 	23822	Malaysia	 	75px
131 	2000	Mainline 	Red 	tiny Black Hot Wheels Logo 	Black/Plastic 	Clear 	Black 	5DOT 	27098	Malaysia	 	75px
171 	2001	Mainline 	Metalflake Blue	White, Gold, Red. Hot Wheels white logo on side	Black/Plastic 	Grey Tint 	Black 	LW 	53714	Malaysia	 	
129 	2003	Mainline 	Plum metallic 	White, Gold, Red. Hot Wheels white logo on side	Black/Plastic 	Gray Tint 	Gray 	10SP 	57104	Malaysia	 	
==Gallery==
080112.jpg|1998
99012.jpg|2001
2231.JPG|2003
2232.JPG|1999
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