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Look at the Wheels on That: Koenigsegg CCX
Guest columnist Adrian Hearn salutes the Koenigsegg CCX – a supercar so crazy, not even The Stig could handle it. Forget about Victoria Silvstedt, Ikea and pear cider – With its monstrous 4.7-litre twin supercharged V8 pumping out an outrageous 806bhp and 678lb/ft of pulling power, the CCX is one of the world’s most powerful production cars. And until the £5 million Bugatti Veyron smashed every world record, the CCX was the planet’s fastest road car. It’s SERIOUSLY quick.
With this titanic performance, Koenigsegg needed to give it some serious brakes. According to the Highway Code, the braking distance for a car at 60mph is 73 metres. With its 362mm discs gripping to the CCX’s 20-inch alloy wheels, the Koenigsegg stops at the same speed in just 31 metres. And if you opt for the 382mm ceramic discs, the distance is even shorter. Not sure if you want a convertible or coupe? With the CCX you can remove the carbon fibre hardtop and store it under the front lid. Now that’s practicality. And then there’s its character. Supercars are meant to be crazy cars designed to be ruthless, tyre-devouring, tarmac-marking monsters. The Bugatti Veyron may be faster, but it’s also more comfortable. Jeremy Clarkson claimed the Veyron is a car you can live with every day. But the CCX is a different beast. The Top Gear star described it as a supercharged great white shark, which will kill you if you try to be cocky. It didn’t kill The Stig, but it forced him to leave the track and hit a tyre wall for the first time in Top Gear’s history. The mystery man was trying to beat the track’s lap record of 1min 18secs held by the pulsating Pagani Zonda. But Stig could only hit 1min 20.4secs before his next attempt resulted in the CCX eating a tyre wall. Top Gear suggested the Koenigsegg be fitted with a spoiler, so it went back to
The CCX proves the small guy can take on the big boys. While the gearbox on a Bugatti Veyron took 50 engineers more than five years to perfect, Koenigsegg – run by Christian Koenigsegg – employs just 30 full time members of staff. And unlike Bugatti, Ferrari and Lamborghini, Koenigsegg hasn’t got much of a history. The car maker was founded in 1993 with the CCX unveiled in 2006 to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the first CC prototype coming out of research and development in 1996. But if you want one of these Swedish beauties you’ll have to fork out £407,000. I would. Look at the Wheels on That Video: Watch the Koenigsegg CCX in action Auto Trader Links: |
With those 806 Swedish stallions spinning the rear wheels, the CCX rockets from 0-62mph (100kph) in a face-morphing 3.2 seconds and to a top speed of 245mph – that’s three times the .jpg)
Koenigsegg has even tried to help the green cause with the more environ-mental-Iy friendly CCXR – a CCX designed to run on a high-octane biofuel, boosting power by 25 per cent to an astonishing, Veyron-rivalling 1018bhp. Page 1
