2008 Koenigsegg CCXR

2008 Koenigsegg CCXR
Sold for $825,000 Including Commission
RM / Sotheby's Auction, Monterey, CA. 2015
Pinnacle Collection
Chassis no. YT9XD33B28A007041
1,018 bhp, 4,700 cc DOHC aluminum V-8 with twin Rotex centrifugal superchargers, six-speed manual transmission, four-wheel independent suspension with double wishbones and two-way adjustable VPS gas-hydraulic shock absorbers, and four-wheel ventilated carbon-ceramic disc brakes. Wheelbase: 104.7 in.
•Koenigsegg’s brilliantly engineered CCXR; capable of producing 1,018 horsepower on E85 ethanol and 0–100 km/h in 3.1 seconds!
•Presented at the opening of Koenigsegg Abu Dhabi and the 2007 Middle East International Motor Show
•Featured in the fifth installment of the Fast and the Furious series, Fast Five
•Numerous factory upgrades performed by an authorized Koenigsegg specialist, including an Agera-spec suspension
•One of only five examples currently in the U.S.; just two owners and showing only 441 original miles
•Very desirable six-speed manual transmission
Starting your own supercar company is not for the faint of heart. Few succeed in their dreams of challenging the establishment. Thus, at the age of 22, the odds were definitely stacked against Christian von Koenigsegg, but his incredible attention to detail and engineering quickly won over skeptics, and they helped to establish his company as one of the most progressive in the industry.
SWEDEN’S SUPERCAR
At the age of 5, Christian saw a Norwegian stop-motion film about a bicycle repairman who built his own racing car and he was inspired to follow the same route. He founded Koenigsegg in Ängelholm, Sweden, in 1994. Koenigsegg began building their first production car, the CC8S, in 2002. Remarkably, it was instantly lauded as one of the best supercars ever built and was crowned the World’s Most Powerful Production Car by The Guinness Book of World Records.
Its replacement, the CCR, took to the Nardo ring in Italy in 2005, where it reached a top speed of 388 km/h, besting the record held by the McLaren F1 for nearly seven years, to become the world’s fastest production car.
His next supercar was the CCX, and again, Koenigsegg was ready to once more raise the bar against all other supercars and subsequently introduced the CCXR. While the engines in previous cars were based on a Ford engine block design, the CCXR boasted Koenigsegg’s own unique engine design, which was fully developed and assembled at their facilities in Ängelholm. The engine was brilliantly designed and delivered incredible power, coupled in a lightweight package, and it even complied with the ever-increasing emissions regulations of the time.
This was achieved by engineering it to run on E85 ethanol instead of conventional petrol, making the world's first "green conscious" supercar. The CCXR can run on regular petrol or pure E85 or in any mixture in between as it features flex-fuel technology. While running on normal petrol, the CCXR’s engine can produce 806 brake horsepower, but when fueled by E85 ethanol, the car can produce a monstrous 1,018 brake horsepower, allowing Koenigsegg to reclaim its title as the producer of the world’s fastest production car.
It goes without saying that performance was absolutely astounding. A 0–100 km/h sprint takes 3.1 seconds, doubling that in just 8.9 seconds. Furthermore, accelerating from a stop to 200 km/h and braking back down to a full stop again takes only an incredible 13.7 seconds. Unlike other supercars with comparable performance figures, the CCXR is drastically more efficient when running on E85 ethanol.
Widely acclaimed by the world's press, it is worthwhile to note that the CCX holds the 7th fastest lap time on the Top Gear test track, and the CCXR is even faster than its non-E85 powered sibling. Furthermore, It was named #1 Power Car by the German magazine Power Cars in 2008 and Forbes Magazine called the CCXR "One of the 10 Most Beautiful Cars in History" in 2009.
Visually, these cars are striking, but the most interesting and renowned aspect of Koenigsegg’s design are its Dihedral Synchrohelix doors, which open both outwards and upwards in a unique fashion to improve egress and ingress in close quarters. Another unique build characteristic is the car’s convertible top. Thanks to the inherent structural rigidity of the car’s carbon fiber monocoque, the roof can be removed, turning the car into one of the fastest convertibles ever produced. Even more incredible is that the top can be securely stowed away in one piece in the car’s nose, allowing for the roof to be kept with the car at all times, rather than having to be left at home and out of reach in the case of impending rain.
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