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FAST: Koenigsegg CCR

FAST Issue no.3

Intro­duc­tion

So, you would think Swe­den is only known for pro­duc­ing extremely safe but dull
cars, such as Saab and Volvo. Now, think again. Chris­t­ian von Koenigsegg grew
up with the dream of cre­at­ing the per­fect sports­car. After sev­eral years of
plan­ning he launched the Koenigsegg project in 1993. Designer David Craaford
pro­vided a design con­cept fol­low­ing Christian’s guide­lines. The vikings
now have a car that is going to make some noise in the super­car scene: the Koenigsegg
CCR.

Koenigsegg CCR
Koenigsegg CCR
Koenigsegg CCR

Design

First impres­sions: dynamic stance, futur­is­tic and aggres­sive atti­tude. Now
that’s how a decent sports­car should come across. Key char­ac­ter­is­tic ele­ments:
low to the ground, large side air intakes, smooth yet aggres­sive lines and big
wheels (no, not over the top 24″ Gio­vanna wheels, those are tacky.) More­over
the spe­cific shade of orange used on this car is just lick­able. The cockpit-like
semi­cir­cu­lar wind­screen is a nice fea­ture and makes the CCR dif­fer­ent from the
usual sus­pects. I can sense from the looks of this car that it has been crafted
with love and atten­tion for detail. The Koenigsegg shows yet another iter­a­tion
of how to open a door — inter­est­ing concept.

Pre­vi­ous designs, espe­cially early ones, of the Koenigsegg have not always
seduced me. Too boxy, too plain – while they cer­tainly looked decent there
was some­thing miss­ing. Koenigsegg have fine tuned design ele­ments in their cur­rent
(2004) CC8S and CCR mod­els, defin­i­tively an improve­ment. The rear of the CCR
deserves to be men­tioned seper­atly: curved lines and atten­tion to detail. The
rear hood is made of one huge part of car­bon­fi­bre, mod­elled to incor­po­rate both
the avant-garde bridge-like air intake below the rear win­dow and an inte­grated
wing. My only obser­va­tion would be the some­what odd gray parts (which encom­pass
the num­ber plate, among others.)

Designer: David Craaford

Facts & Figures

Note: this car was sug­gested by Ste­fan
Visser

This item was posted by dhilhorst on Tuesday, April 27th, 2004.

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17 comments on “FAST: Koenigsegg CCR”

  1. Posted by lolly on Tuesday, April 27th, 2004.

    Thr side pro­file is lack­ing some­thing for me. Its all a bit front-biased. I sup­pose thats true of all mid-engined cars, but the Lambo’s always seem to dis­guise that better.

    Don’t get me wrong — its still a lovely car, I’d just pre­fer a Mur­cielago or a Car­erra GT. If only :-)

    How about the Aston DB9 next? That really is lovely.

  2. Posted by DarkBlue on Tuesday, April 27th, 2004.

    Ha, 242mph? That’s piti­ful. If you want fast, you gotta write about the North Amer­i­can Eagle…

  3. Posted by Fabian on Tuesday, April 27th, 2004.

    Saab? Dull? Excuse me? :-) Nei­ther Volvo or Saab are dull. Saab is one of those brands (of cars) known to be bought by peo­ple with strong per­son­al­i­ties. Euro­pean cars usu­ally aren’t dull at all. Japan­ese are (Toy­ota i.e.).

    Nice arti­cle by the way. Finally some less known cars pass­ing the revue! :-)

  4. Posted by David on Tuesday, April 27th, 2004.

    Fol­low­ing the state­ment about Swedish cars being safe, this car has also passed crash tests with fly­ing col­ors. In the case of the side impact tests, the door on the side of the col­li­sion was still able to be opened and no struc­tural dam­age was sus­tained, only cos­metic damage.

    PS you can test drive this car in some games such as Project Gotham Rac­ing 2.

  5. Posted by asno on Tuesday, April 27th, 2004.

    I sug­gest a Sub­aru Impreza WRX STi Spec-C next :) Although maybe some TVR cars would be cool to review. Per­haps the Speed 12, T 440 R or the T 350. All really nice cars. Maybe a Lotus 340R? Oh well, thats the end of my sug­ges­tions. Sorry I don’t have any com­ments on the Koenigsegg, its cool and all, and really fast, and good look­ing too.

    Oh, I’d also like to point out that 0-100km/h is actu­ally 0-62mp/h, not 0–60.

  6. Posted by Pete F. on Wednesday, April 28th, 2004.

    I’d say the ven­er­a­ble Scuby STi isn’t any­where near the same league — don’t get me wrong; I love the Scuby (and the Evo), but it’s hardly a super car.

    Per­son­ally, after hav­ing seen a Bent­ley Con­ti­nen­tal GT up close for the first time yes­ter­day, I’m com­pletely smit­ten with it. I’d like to see that in an upcom­ing edi­tion of FAST.

    (I’m also going to vote for the DB9 too — not a huge leap over the 7, but still note­wor­thy British super car.)

  7. Posted by Didier Hilhorst on Thursday, April 29th, 2004.

    David: I knew some­one would argue my state­ment about Volvo and Saab being dull cars. Heh. I may have exag­ger­ated, but I still think in terms of design both Volvo and Saab are not the most sexy cars around.

    Asno: As far as the STi is con­cerned I will have to agree with Pete. I mean it’s a great car and all, but not a super­car like Lam­borgh­ini, Porsche or this Koenigsegg.

  8. Posted by lolly on Tuesday, May 4th, 2004.

    “Per­haps the Speed 12″

    What, the car they [TVR] don’t make because the boss thought it was ludicrous?

    “Im also going to vote for the DB9 too — not a huge leap over the 7″

    [flab­berghasted] Its a mas­sive leap! From a Jaguary XJS-based bodge to a brand new lovely plat­form. The reviews I’ve seen say its bet­ter than the new 612Scaglietti and light-years ahead of the DB7. And now i’ll stop, because this is a Koinigsegg thread :-)

  9. Posted by Anita on Thursday, May 6th, 2004.

    I am so in love with this car!!! It is by far the most beau­ti­ful thing I have ever seen, not to men­tion fast. If I ever get enough money to afford one of these car’s I will die a very happy woman :)

  10. Posted by nice on Friday, May 7th, 2004.

    Prob­a­bly my favorite car.I think that Fer­rari is overated.I think that they are to expesive.With this car you get more for your money.

  11. Posted by chris hill on Friday, May 14th, 2004.

    This is undoubtably the car for me. Should I EVER have enough dosh to pur­chase this beat­i­ful vehi­cle I would not hes­i­tate. Looks, speed, per­for­mance etc, its georgeous.

  12. Posted by Ahmed Kemal on Monday, May 31st, 2004.

    Com­ments on whether Volvo and Saab are not good look­ing In etc… In gen­eral When it comes to beau­ti­ful design I think all Euro­pean cars and Japan­ese look stu­pid and bor­ing. I love Amer­i­can cars. They really know how to make cars look wun­der­fully. I mean if You look at a Dodge Wiper it says all. Long live Amer­i­can car design!!

    Ahmed Turkey

    Istan­bul

  13. Posted by Tony on Friday, June 18th, 2004.

    You actu­ally can’t test drive the Koenigsegg CCR in PGR2. This is my favorite super car as it is absolutely beau­ti­ful. One man’s vision has turned into mil­lions of car enthu­si­asts dreams. The car that can be dri­vin in PGR2 is the CC8S. At 655 Hp, the CC8s is still incred­i­bly fast, but that speed is only a pre­view com­pared to the CCR. Both cars will be known around the world once pro­duc­tion increases and they are legal­ized througout.

  14. Posted by Jesse on Friday, June 25th, 2004.

    Dark­Blue com­ment so stu­pid you cant drive a with a rocket on the road. Thing I dis­like about the Koenigsegg is the torque not pow­er­ful enough. For me the torque should be 1010 Ib-ft, if they really wanted a super­car and it to beat any­thing that would come out in the mar­ket. Also the 242 mph is the speed they got upto, they still have a long way to get to the 250 mph marker, when ur dri­ving around a course thats quite small and have hardly any straights you can hardly achieve the max­i­mum speed of the car. Only cars that com­pete with the CCR are: McLAREN F1, Pagani Zonda, Bugatti Vey­ron, and some mod­i­fied Viper or Corvette.

  15. Posted by Tom Pollard on Tuesday, June 29th, 2004.

    I love the doors on this car. Can any­one put me in touch with some­one who knows if there is a way to get the door sys­tem? I have a show car that I take to all the major import car shows in the Mid­west and would like to see about putting this door sys­tem on my show car. Any info would be very helpfull.

    Will this car ever be in the Chicago area? Would love to see it up close and get some pho­tos of it.

  16. Posted by s.plato on Wednesday, June 30th, 2004.

    The ccr is intrest­ing con­sid­er­ing that it dev­oleps so much power in a v8 engine Iex­pect many more mod­els like these

  17. Posted by Mahakimon Nannim on Wednesday, July 28th, 2004.

    Dear Ahmed II really love those com­ments about beau­ti­ful Amer­i­can cars. You are absolutely right. Amer­i­can car design is the best. Euro­pean and Japan­ese cars are so bor­ing and out­dated. Im sure within 20 years time ther wont be any cars made out­side US, Only Ford, Chrysler and GM are man­u­fac­tur­ing cars then. Im look­ing for­ward already.

    Mahaki­mon Nannin

    Jacarta