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About Koenigsegg

Koenigsegg should not exist. In 1994 a young Swede named Christian von Koenigsegg decided to build a world-class supercar from scratch, with no industrial backing and very little money. Three decades later his company builds some of the most technically daring cars on Earth in Angelholm, in southern Sweden, inside hangars that once housed a fighter squadron, whose ghost emblem still appears on every car. Its engineers design almost everything themselves, from engines and transmissions to carbon wheels, and they seem to regard conventional wisdom as a personal challenge.

The early CC8S and CCX established the company, and the Agera family made it famous, with an Agera RS setting a top-speed record on a closed public road in Nevada in 2017. The One:1 matched horsepower to kilograms, the Regera did away with a conventional gearbox entirely, and Koenigsegg's Freevalve technology showed that a camless engine could work. The Jesko brought a nine-speed multi-clutch transmission capable of jumping between gears almost instantly, and the CC850 revived the company's first model with a gearbox that can behave as both a manual and an automatic.

Today the lineup centers on the Jesko in its Attack and Absolut forms, the four-seat Gemera and the CC850, with track-focused derivatives such as Sadair's Spear appearing in tiny numbers. Koenigsegg competes with Bugatti, Pagani and Rimac for the same small pool of collectors, but its reputation rests on engineering originality rather than heritage. Its production numbers are tiny, which makes every recall, delivery and record attempt a story in its own right.

This page follows reveals, record runs, deliveries, recalls, auction sales and the occasional rare older Koenigsegg spotted in the wild. Watch for the company's next attempts at speed and acceleration records, the spread of its in-house technology to other makers, and how a small Swedish firm keeps expanding its range without losing the independent spirit that made its name. Christian von Koenigsegg's own appearances, in which he explains his latest engineering trick with infectious enthusiasm, are often the best stories of all.

Koenigsegg

Christian von Koenigsegg's Swedish skunkworks, where camless engines, gearbox-free drivetrains and 1,600-horsepower V8s come from a former fighter base.

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Inside Koenigsegg

Gemera Koenigsegg's four-seat Mega-GT, a family hypercar with enormous doors, room for four adults and luggage, and more than 2,000 horsepower.
Jesko Koenigsegg's 1,600-horsepower flagship, named for Christian's father, offered as the downforce-hungry Attack or the low-drag, top-speed Absolut.

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