Entries Tagged as 'koenigsegg'

Wednesday, December 31st, 1969

Go your Own Way: Ultima GTR beats Top Gear lap record by 4½ seconds

Filed under: Motorsports, Euro, Supercars

Ultima, one of several dozen independent British sportscar companies and makers of the GTR, could only take so much rejection. The cottage automaker claims it offered its road-legal race-car to the producers at BBC’s hit TV show Top Gear several times, only to be repeatedly refused. So Ultima took things into […]

Wednesday, December 31st, 1969

0-60 in 2.9 sec: The production 1018-HP CCXR is here

Filed under: Coupes, Etc., Supercars
Click on the image above to see more images of the Koenigsegg CCXR
Koenigsegg has released some full-on shots of the production CCXR — probably a new one, and not the 1-of-a-kind CCXR crashed by Top Gear. The biofuel-powered car has a twin supercharged 4.8-liter V8, and will put out 1,018-HP at […]

Wednesday, December 31st, 1969

First U.S. legal Koenigsegg CCX delivered to customer

Filed under: Car Buying, Supercars

We got our first (and only) taste of the U.S.-spec Koenigsegg CCX more than a year ago when we piloted it on a road course outside Las Vegas Speedway with sportscar racer Justin Bell giving us driving tips from the passenger seat. We had mixed emotions about the super-fast Swede — […]

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