McLaren 750S Turned Into A Mercedes CLK GTR At SEMA 2026

Twenty-five CLK GTR road cars were built in 1998. One McLaren 750S now looks exactly like one of them, which means the replica is already harder to avoid than the original.

The builder is S-Klub LA, the car is called Game Over, and the base is a brand-new 750S dressed as a tribute to the Mercedes-Benz CLK GTR. It debuted at SEMA 2026 alongside the usual slate of rotary swaps and Hemi conversions, and it is doing something stranger than any of them.

What S-Klub Actually Built At SEMA 2026

The conversion is structural coachwork, not a body kit, long nose, wide hips, flush tail, the full CLK GTR silhouette grafted onto a 750S tub. From a distance the proportions read as the real thing, and the road presence is there too. The work is credited to American firm S Klub LA, and the execution is coherent enough that the giveaway is the badge, not the panel gaps.

Inside, S-Klub pushed in the opposite direction from the donor's inspiration. Red and white leather upholstery, diamond quilting, contrasting stripes, and exposed carbon-fiber trim create an environment far more luxurious than the comparatively spartan original CLK GTR. The original was a homologation car with a dashboard that looked like it had been invoiced by the gram; this one has been upholstered like a yacht. The contrast works against the exterior rather than with it, a race-bred shell wrapped around a lounge is two cars arguing in one shape, and the lounge is winning.

The price gap is the headline the SEMA press release writes for you. A 750S lists around $360,000. CLK GTR road cars trade in the $10 million range at public auction. Game Over is, in the most literal accounting sense, a $360,000 car wearing a $10 million costume. The $9.64 million gap is not the absurd part.

The Lineage Makes The Joke Fold In On Itself

The CLK GTR was itself a homologation trick dressed as a road car. When the BPR Global GT Series was elevated to the FIA GT Championship, Mercedes instructed AMG to construct a car to Group GT1 regulations.To speed up development, AMG purchased McLaren F1 GTR chassis #11R from French privateers Larbre Compétition, fitted it with AMG's own bodywork, and swapped the F1 GTR's S70/2 engine for Mercedes' own LS600.

Read that again. AMG built the CLK GTR by buying a McLaren and putting a Mercedes body on it. S-Klub, twenty-eight years later, has built Game Over by buying a McLaren and putting a Mercedes body on it. The method is identical. Only the paperwork is different.

The performance comparison is the other inversion. The original road car used a naturally aspirated 6.9-liter V12 producing roughly 604 horsepower, while the McLaren 750S uses a 4.0-liter twin-turbocharged V8 developing 740 horsepower.Built around McLaren's carbon-fiber MonoCage II architecture, the standard 750S hits 62 mph in 2.8 seconds and tops out at 206 mph. Game Over is faster than the car it is pretending to be by every number that matters.

And the rarity math has quietly flipped. The 750S arrived in 2023 as a heavily updated successor to the 720S, the Woking firm's longtime best-seller.It was the lightest series production McLaren yet at launch, weighing just 1,277 kg, with a Ricardo-built twin-turbo making 740 bhp, a power-to-weight ratio of 579 bhp per tonne. Only 25 CLK GTR road cars were ever made. Statistically, the replica's donor is more common than the thing it imitates, but the thing it imitates is still rarer than anything S-Klub will build in a decade.

The Luce EV rebody earlier this year landed in the same lane, a well-engineered car reshaped toward a more desirable silhouette, with the usual mixed results. Game Over sharpens the exercise because the 750S itself is ending its run as the last pure-combustion McLaren before the platform shift the firm has been signalling, which makes a structural rebody of a near-current car a different act from the usual retro-skin project.

The Replica Is Rarer Than Its Own Lineage Suggests

Game Over will probably remain a one-off, which is the quiet twist. The CLK GTR it impersonates was always a 25-unit car; the original is still worth roughly twenty-eight times more ($10 million against $360,000), which is what twenty-eight years of racing provenance buys you. The joke S-Klub is telling at SEMA is that the mechanism for building an icon has not actually changed since 1997. You still start with a McLaren.