Screenshot: Top Gear on YouTube Koenigsegg was still a fairly new company with just 30 employees when it built the CCGT. Based on the Competition Coupe CC8S, which had been launched as the company’s first road-legal offering in 2002, the CCGT was intended to go GT1 racing. From the beginning, the road car was designed to … Read more
It’s now been two years since Rimac delivered its first Nevera hypercars to customers, a record-setting EV from the small Croatian company now also running Bugatti. So as you might expect from the advent of another Monterey Car Week, after a couple of styling-focused special editions it’s time for an enticing new variant of the … Read more
It’s getting harder to make your car stand out in the sea of multi-million dollar hybrid and high-revs hypercars, but an Italian startup from Sasha Selipanov (the designer of the Bugatti Chiron and Koenigsegg Gemera) called Nilu27 promises a new raw experience that billionaire buyers can’t get anywhere else. With a fully exposed 1000-horsepower 6.5-liter … Read more
Photo: Czinger This year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed saw the outrageous Ford SuperVan claim the fastest hill climb time of the weekend, running up the hill in just 43.98 seconds. Sadly, that wasn’t enough to take the overall record crown from the McMurtry Spéirling, but there was a broken record in another major category. The … Read more
It’s amazing what you can learn with Lego. Gif: Bricks Master Builders via YouTube Lego bricks are pretty great, they can be used to recreate iconic airports, let you build up your dream car and can now be used to demonstrate what’s going on inside your car’s transmission. That’s thanks to a social media user … Read more
Koenigsegg just officially broke its own 0-400-0 km/h world record in Sweden last week, with a Jesko Absolut shaving nearly a second off the Koenigsegg Regera’s previous record. 400 km/h equates to about 248.5 mph, which the Jesko Absolut reached from a dig in a mind-boggling 18.82 seconds, and then completed the trip back to … Read more
After Koenigsegg ordered every Jesko owner off the road this week as a result of a fire in one of its cars, Toyota might be quaking in its boots as a GR Corolla has been filmed going up in smoke on the highway. Nobody was injured in the blaze, but a dashcam running through the … Read more
You can’t park there.Screenshot: Drone Views | Zisimos Zizos via YouTube (Getty Images) After millionaires were annoyed to find out that they were no longer able to get behind the wheel of their Porsche Carrera GTs earlier this year, it’s now the billionaires turn to stay put for a while as Koenigsegg has placed a … Read more
Image: Aspark It seems like just yesterday that Aspark was pushing the boundaries of physics by getting its Owl electric hypercar to sprint from 0-60 in under two seconds. In reality that was six years ago, and now every EV automaker can make a sub-two 0-60 run, so Aspark had to set its sights a … Read more
Image: Cadillac The Allanté only gets an honorable mention here because of how wild its production process was. In late 1985, GM signed a $100-million air cargo deal with Alitalia and Lufthansa Airlines. The reason? So the company could embark on one of the most complex and inefficient assembly processes ever imagined. The whole process … Read more
