Koenigsegg planning an entry-level car – but it’ll still cost £500k

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Christian von Koenigsegg is planning an entry-level Koenigsegg to sit below the Agera, but even an entry-level car is going to cost around £500,000.

Think of the cars that Christian von Koenigsegg has made since he started with the CC8S in 2002 and you think of them as extremes of the supercar genre; the Swedish engineering take on the bloated and massively complex Bugatti Veyron.

Christian’s men in a shed in Sweden have gone on to make a series of progressively quicker and more impressive supercars, through the CCR, CCX and the Agera and on to the current most extreme iteration – the Koenigsegg One:1.

But it looks like Christian has decided that his ambition to create the world’s greatest hypercar leaves room for a ‘Lesser’ Koenigsegg, a car that still has innovative engineering and extreme performance but comes at a lower price.

But a ‘lower-priced’ Koenigsegg isn’t pointing towards a Koenigsegg to take on cars like the McLaren 650S and Ferrari 458, but one aimed at the wasteland of cars available between the current top-end of performance road cars – like the Lamborghini Aventador and Ferrari F12 – and the stratosphere of pricing where the Agera R sits alongside stuff like the Veyron, Pagani Huayra and the new crop of ‘mainstream’ hypercars like the Porsche 918, LaFerrari and McLaren P1.

So Christian looks to be planning a car that comes in at around £500k, with similar – but less extreme – performance, engineering and materials.

That could potentially but it in the same range as McLaren’s planned P15, but – as Top Gear would say – plants itself in a space that’s perfect for anyone wanting to spend £500k on a supercar.

This could be interesting.

Source: Motoring.com.au (via Autoblog)