Koenigsegg to unveil new CCX
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Koenigsegg always make me chuckle. For years and years Bugatti were banging on and on about the Veyron, how it was going to have eleventy million horsepower and be the fastest thing on four wheels etc. The motoring press were constantly speculating about whether the project would actually go ahead and then when it did it was fraught with problems, overspends, fallings out and everything else which made the whole affair even more dramatic.
Meanwhile in a shed in Sweden a group of light starved nutters (I’ve never met a sane Swede) were quite happily going about their business making a car with 806bhp simply by strapping 2 ma-hu-sive superchargers onto a V8. They then packed it off to Nardo and with very little blowing of their own trumpets drove the thing at about 240mph, packed it up and came home again.
At the same time, Bugatti were busy making interior switches from Moon rock and stuffing the Veyron’s seats with the finest Beluga caviar in an attempt to lose as much money as possible on every car sold.
No doubt this CCX will have eleventy million and one horsepower, just to nobble the Bugatti. If I were Christian von Koenigsegg I’d be pretty smug
Meanwhile in a shed in Sweden a group of light starved nutters (I’ve never met a sane Swede) were quite happily going about their business making a car with 806bhp simply by strapping 2 ma-hu-sive superchargers onto a V8. They then packed it off to Nardo and with very little blowing of their own trumpets drove the thing at about 240mph, packed it up and came home again.
At the same time, Bugatti were busy making interior switches from Moon rock and stuffing the Veyron’s seats with the finest Beluga caviar in an attempt to lose as much money as possible on every car sold.
No doubt this CCX will have eleventy million and one horsepower, just to nobble the Bugatti. If I were Christian von Koenigsegg I’d be pretty smug
)I've never driven one, but long levers are usually used to lessen the force required to move the object at the other end. So maybe with a normal length gear lever, our swedish friends found it required both hands to move the bloody thing to the next ratio.
Now thats a cheap engineering solution!!
Now thats a cheap engineering solution!!
go here for the full press release:
www.rideroom.com/news_comments.php?id=1154
It's basically the CCR, but US-legal.
www.rideroom.com/news_comments.php?id=1154
It's basically the CCR, but US-legal.
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