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Koenigsegg CCR, Koenigsegg CC850 (spiritual) The Koenigsegg CC8S is a mid-engine sports car produced by the Swedish automobile manufacturer Koenigsegg . It was the company's first production automobile and the first production car to use the company's trademark dihedral synchro-helix actuation doors.
The company was founded in 1994 in Sweden by Christian von Koenigsegg, with the intention of producing a "world-class" sports car.Many years of development and testing led to the CC8S, the company's first street-legal production car, which was introduced in 2002.
The deal with Audi for the use of their 4.2 V8 fell flat after the car's designer, Christian von Koenigsegg, made clear his intent of tuning the V8 far beyond its standard output. The next candidate was the Flat-12 race engine developed by Motori Moderni for the Scuderia Coloni Formula One team, in which this engine was raced under the Subaru ...
Koenigsegg CC850 revealed as a tribute to the first production Koenigsegg, the CC8S, but with technology and a wild transmission from the Jesko. Koenigsegg CC850 shown with 1,185 horsepower ...
Honoring two decades since the delivery of Koenigsegg’s first production car, the CC850 debuts with an unusual gearbox that doubles as manual and automatic.
Said claim was put to test on February 28, 2005, at Italy's Nardò Ring where a team of five Koenigsegg engineers and mechanics together with founder Christian von Koenigsegg ran a standard CCR, driven by Loris Bicocchi to a top speed of 387.87 km/h (241.01 mph), breaking the fastest production car record (if "production car" is defined ...
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The Koenigsegg CC850 is a limited production mid-engine sports car manufactured by Swedish automobile manufacturer Koenigsegg. It was unveiled on 19 August 2022 at Pebble Beach, California , [ 3 ] as a homage to the CC8S .