One of the speed records set back in September by the incredible Koenigsegg Agera R has now been ratified by Guinness - 0-300-0 km/h (0-186-0 mph) in 21.9 seconds. As we say every time Koenigsegg jumps in to vision with another bonkers car or speed feat, we’re amazed at just what a handful of men with beards (except [...]
Koenigsegg Agera R – timed at Koenigsegg’s Ängelholm proving ground in Sweden – has achieved a 0-200mph time of 17.68sec. We are constantly amazed at what the three men in a shed in the snow in Sweden that are Koenigsegg Automotive AB can achieve. All the way from the first Koenigsegg, the CC8S, to the very latest, the Koenigsegg Agera we [...]
The only Koenigsegg Agera in the UK was at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, and we got an opportunity to have a good look round. We have to confess that we have a huge soft spot for the creations of Christian von Koenigsegg. So when we knew that friend of Cars UK Tommy Wareham, purveyor [...]
There is only one production Koenigsegg Agera R in existence, and Swedish journalist Erik Gustafsson of Teknikens Varld Magazine got to play and video it. It would be nice to think Christian von Koenigesegg had given us a call to see if we’d like to go and play with the Koenigsegg Agera R, and record our [...]
We finally have performance figures for the Koenigsegg Agera R, which will hit 62mph in 2.9 seconds and carry on to 261mph We managed to break the story that the seemingly one-off Koenigsegg Agera R was going in to production, back in January. Which was the first story of any note to come from Koenigsegg since [...]
We update the info on the Koenigsegg Agera R with video and photos from Geneva and ask – Is the Agera R a serious contender for star of the show? What’s the star of this year’s Geneva Motor Show? Ferrari FF? Pagani Huayra? LP700-4? Or something a bit more prosaic? It’s a question we’ve bandied around at [...]
The Koenigsegg Agera R – sporting 1115bhp – is officially confirmed for the Geneva Motor Show. We discovered last month that one of only two Koenigsegg Agera’s so far delivered had been turned in to a Koenigsegg Agera R – with extra horses and extra Koenigesegg goodness – for a member of the Oman Royal [...]
Koenigsegg are taking a more powerful Agera to Geneva. The Koenigsegg Agera R offers 1150bhp and will cost €980,000. This time last year – give or take a week or two – we heard a whisper that Koenigsegg had something new planned for Geneva. A day or two of furtling around and we were [...]
The Koenigsegg Agera has been revealed at the Geneva Motor Show and we’ve got hold of video of the Agera on the move. We managed to uncover information on the Koenigsegg Agera early on, following on from the chat we had with Koenigsegg when they told us they would be bringing ‘Something New’ to the Geneva [...]
Koenigsegg have produced a ‘New’ car – the Koenigesgg Agera – which will be at the Geneva Motor Show We did warn you last week that Koenigsegg were taking ‘Something New’ to the Geneva Motor Show. We had had a chat with them as things had been very quiet, and we did say to them [...]
An update on the NLV Quant – which was shown at Geneva ’09 as the Koenigsegg Quant – ahead of its showing at Geneva 2010. Last week we ran a story on Koenigsegg taking somethig new to Geneva after we’d had a chat with them. But part of that story was on last year’s Koenigsegg [...]
We’ve been having a chat with Koenigsegg about their plans, and they’ve told us they will have something new at the Geneva Motor Show. But what? The last time we had major news from Koenigsegg – apart from the ongoing Koenigsegg buys Saab saga of the last few months – was when the Koenigsegg Quant [...]
We’re beginning to wonder if GM actually wants to sell Saab. There have been one or two very serious offers, but GM seem to be putting obstacles in the way of a sale. We first began to wonder if GM really wanted to move Saab on when the well-funded and completely kosher offer from Koenigsegg was shown [...]
It’s clear that Koenigsegg intends to push the Saab brand upmarket, increasing prices by almost 50% in the next 6 years. We’ve covered Christian von Koenigsegg’s quest to take over Saab a fair bit this year. All that seems to be firmly on track with the finance sorted and partners – including China’s BAIC – on board. But [...]
Christian Von Koenigsegg is a man well known in petrolhead circles. His innovation and nous have taken him to the top of the tree of Hypercar makers, and we’ve applauded his innovation and entrepreneurial spirit on numerous occasions. But Christian is not a man who courts personal publicity. So it’s a sign of how important [...]
KoenigSaab is official. We knew back in June that Koenigsegg had signed a Memorandum of Understanding to buy Saab from beleaguered GM. But in the last week or so there have been rumblings that the deal may be in trouble after one of Koenigsegg’s investors sold their shares. But this morning comes official confirmation that [...]
We’ve been running stories on the fate of Saab ever since GM’s trouble became apparent. First off it looked as if Fiat were at the head of the queue to take over Saab, but more recently we reported that Koenigsegg – the quirky Swedish Supercar maker – was in the running. That belief was compounded [...]
We reported last week that one of the main potential buyers for Saab is reported to be Koenigsegg. Well, if reports coming in from a Swedish TV company are to be believed, Koenigsegg is almost past the post, squeezing out the other two players – the Renco Group and a bunch of guys from Wyoming. [...]
As GM’s problems continue to reverberate, with Fiat trying to get its hands on Opel and Vauxhall being promised aid by Lord Mandy if needs be (I’d get that in writing guys, if I were you), Saab and its future has been a little sidelined. It is thought that Fiat would like to gobble up [...]
The Koenigsegg CCXR Edition is an unbelievable car. 1018bhp, 0-60mph in just 2.9 seconds, 796ft/lb of torque and a top speed somewhere north of 250mph. And it can even be considered ‘Green’ as it can run on bio-ethanol (which is necessary to reach the maximum performance figures). The CCXR Edition was never going to be [...]
We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again. Christian Von Koenigsegg is as mad as a hatter. But good mad, not bad mad. He has outrageous ideas, but has the nous to see them through. And the Koenigsegg Quant is some idea. But actually, this isn’t all Christian’s idea. The project stems from a [...]
Christian Von Koenigsegg doesn’t do things by halves. Oh, no. A super wunderkid – massively wealthy from entrepreneurial escapades in his 20s – he produces what many would consider to be the ultimate supercar – the Koenigsegg CCXR Edition. Sporting over 1000bhp, the car explodes in a way nothing else on the roads today can. [...]
