November26
Koenigsegg has released official images of its production CCXR Special Edition. Based on the CCX, the CCXR features a body made completely of carbon fiber and is powered by a twin-supercharged 4.7L V8 — good for an astonishing 1018 horsepower — that can run on E85 biofuel.
The result is a car that can go from 0-62 in 2.9 seconds, hit a top speed of over 250 mph and achieve 1.4g on the skidpad. That kind of perfomance comes at a price, though, with the CXXR listing for €1,575,000. No word on how many CCXRs Koenigsegg plans to produce.
This thing was stupid fast with “only” 650-700hp. This car will will trump the Veyron’s top speed by a good margin.
Any bets? 260mph or better?
This certainly appears to be the most refined Koenigsegg to date, but the price goes along with the refinement. I wonder how well it does in stop-n-go traffic?
Pretty cool, but enough with this E85 garbage already. Who gives a xxxx? It’s pointless.
That has got to be the worst photoshop job ive ever seen. I wonder how fast it goes with the top down. Nothing like the wind blowing through your hair at 260 mph
I don’t like the back, but the rest is perfect.
Totally wicked. I love the horsepower wars.
I think that the car looks great! I don’t like the wing… but with power and speed like that, I’m sure it’s a necessity. Quite nice.
I’m a fan of the CCX, but talk about extreme. I’m absolutely sure you need that rear wing for stability at such insane speeds, but it is pretty gawdy. Good thing its carbon fiber–in a light-colored paint, it probably wouldn’t look as good.
And that price is absolutely insane. How many will Koenigseg produce? How many venture capitalists and Arab princes have room in their garages?
Holy ****. This machine is absolutely insane…and I love insanity.
I just ordered one…
Put down the hand lotion Lambo Z.
LP640, why am I not surprised you come up with a comment like that.
The rendering was done with a 3d modeling program, not sure which one, either 3D max or Maya.
Get you facts straight before you make a post.
I love the Koenigsegg CCX, it would by my personal choice of supercar if I was every in the market for one. Just a wonderful piece of engineering/
dmanero,
True it is not Photoshop. But given that there are no less than three 3d packages using the Mental Ray rendered, which this looks like (though it could be C4D or Flamingo or a half dozen others), it is nearly impossible to to pin down exactly which program it is. But then that wasn’t the point of your comment.
Given the proclivity of Super car makers to what to build cars that don’t like like something churned out of a mass production line, this could be CAD models from the company rendered from view.
Who knew the swedes were capable of building such a super exotic! Awsome car, I’m so glad they stopped using those crap ford engines and are building their own. Too many customer complaints about the ford engines breaking apart after a few laps on the track. The new engines have proved to be solid and alot more powerfull.
I guess this pretty much wastes all the “superchargers suck” arguments.
wow this is gonna be stupid fast
by the way the e85 is what allows it to have that high a horsepower rating. e85 has a intercooling like effect and allows to run the engine at a higher level of compression which allows koenigsegg to get alot more power out of it
All carbon fiber? Bad-****ing-ass!
Blakkarr, I’d be surprised if this thing broke even 255mph. At those speeds, you need around 20hp to increase top speed just 1mph, regardless of weight. This barely has 17 more hp that a Veyron and that tops out at about 251mph if I’m not mistaken.
E85 is equal to 103 or 104 octane. Having an E85 equipped vehicle makes more power and in the case of this car it’s a good 100hp or so.
sweet!
Why not just use high octane gas? E85 is a gimmick, nothing more.
C6Racer,
I can’t fault the laws of physics but the CCX will do 247mph with 806hp. given that just short of 260 sounds reasonable. But the Koenigsegg has better aerodynamics that the Veyron so we should not be surprised at 260+mph.
But the bigger problem would be tires. The reason why the Veyron’s top speed is a theoretical 255+mph is because no one makes tire to carry a 4200lb car to and over those speeds. Actually they do but they are hard to find and buy and impossible to use on streets. They aren’t made of rubber.
The “Kone” weighs under 2700lbs so part of the problem is accounted for. But rotation stresses will need to be dealt with about 5000 wheel-rpm, is not fun. This is the number of rotation per minute a tire must undergo, assuming perfect traction - no slip, to attain 300mph. Of course, the car isn’t going to make to 300, but you always engineer overage in case of a “warp malfunction”.
If I was a kid, this would go on my wall. SInce I’m not it’ll be my desktop background.
Big deal, why is this so impressive? Because it’s all carbonfiber?
I could strap a rocket onto a frame made of balsawood and smoke this ****ing Koenigsegg.
Beautiful, just beautiful. I wouldn’t doubt it if this broke the Speed record, but the Bugatti Veyron is no longer the holder in the first place…
Technically though, since Shelby Supercars hasn’t manufactured their supercar yet, the Bugatti Veyron still remains the record holder, but we’ll see in a few years…
I still don’t like the flat front too much, though =\
Blakkar- Rotation stresses can be accounted for by larger wheels. But I doubt this will have large enough wheels, as one or two inch increases doesn’t make a large enough difference. And once again, we come to tire manufacturing, for such large wheels.
Nice. This is what I call f*cking awesome!
This is a gorgeous piece of machinery, but for that scratch I would get few Alfa’s in either different colors (if they come in something in addition to red) or just few red ones. Alfa gives me a bigger hardon (of course it is subjective!)
Another useless car that I’ll never get.
Can anyone tell me if this still uses a Ford small-block like the last generation Koenigsegg?
Should be a fun car to play around with in future racing games. Because lets face it, that’s as close as any of us are to driving one of these. =)
jJayC08,
How big do you think the wheels need to be? On 20 inch wheels and 26-inch tires you need just under 4800 wheel-Rpm to hit 300 mph. This is about the size the Kone is going to have and has. But I think we are in agreement that the tires are the only real stumbling block to speeds well over 250. They’ll fly apart.
also the Veyron is not really the record holder as such it’s top speed it theoretical because no one has even taken the car that fast. Not even the testers at Bugatti have done it or they would have posted it. To my knowledge, the “Kone” CCX is the CONFIRMED fastest production car in the world with a top speed just under 248mph. I may be wrong but not that far off.
Having a theoretical top speed of 256, is very different from having a proven top speed of about 248.
It just took me almost 2 hours to get home in the first snow of the year here in Vancouver. My commute usually takes 40 minutes. Do you have any idea how lucky I was NOT to have taken the CCXR this morning?
^^they reached 401kmh in the top gear test of the veyron, didn’t they?
Great. Another 1.5M EUR car with the reliability of a 1970’s Fiat.
syrax,
That comes to 240mph.
Veda: If we all wanted useful cars, we’d all be driving Golfs and Exploders
^Illwill, they stopped using ford engines and are making their own which is an incredible peice of machinery. They stopped using ford engines because they were too unreliable and not capable of handling even more power for future projects.
^^^ Unreliable? Not capable? Umm… Didn’t they hold the title of “fastest production car” back in 2005 with that ford engine (beating the McLaren f1! i dont see this new “incredible piece of machinery” beating the Shelby-supercars or Bugatti champs)? So, please stfu with your biased opinion you bastard, but thanks anyway for answering my question; i could’ve just checked wikipedia though.
i hear you there illwill, the saleen has a proven race history with a ford smallblock, theese panty waist haters are scumbags.
^ill will what the hell is wrong with you? I don’t understand why you get so offended? are you one of those pathetic ford fans that gets upset at any negative comment about Ford? Stop being pathetic and stop supporting some corporation that couldn’t care less if you live or die. Christian von Koenigsegg has mentioned in several interviews for European auto magazines and shows that the reason he stopped using Ford engines is due to reliability issues. The constant breakdowns of the engines was getting expensive for his company. It was actually cheaper in the long run to develop his own engine that will run stronger and more reliably. He also mentioned that the Ford engines in his earlier cars have already reached the max power that it can handle, not enough for future projects. So next time try to do a bit of research and stop being such a goof, your comment only shows your insecurities for a corporation that doesn’t even know you exist. Loser!
Anyway, Ford Duratecs are fairly damn reliable… Our Zetec has been for the past 7 years, and Noble have been using Ford Duratecs, but may opt for another engine soon for more power (Was it Volvo?)
moto-racer13 - where were the Ford engines sourced from? The US? Cos that would probably explain it lol…
Haha who would ever thought thought that this amazing Swedish supercar would be powered by a Ford Duratec engine? Not dissing the engine at all, I just think it’s funny though that this bad ass car is being powered by an American auto company’s engine!
SS you idiot, don’t you read? They stopped using Ford engines because it was crap. It was costing the company too much money replacing the customers engines. They make their own engine, their own design a blend of sweedish and german engineering. This bad ass car is NOT powered by an American engine.
Pd:
based on the Ford Modular engine architecture, and assembled by Grainger & Worrall
oh **** jack you just tossed a wrench in their sprockets.
That’s Right Planet_drive! Still based on Ford engine architecture! Thank you JJT!! Lol actually PD, I stopped reading the comments halfway into it so I didn’t read entirely. But it’s all good. I guess I’d probably be pissed if JJT proved me wrong. lol
Either way, the original ford engines used were NOT duratecs… duratecs can take the power noble need, and do the job well, but noble opting for more too now, so moving on…