Category: Koenigsegg

Dealer Crashes Ultra Rare Koenigsegg CCX

Dealer Crashes Ultra Rare Koenigsegg CCX

If you’re a regular reader of this blog, you know the Koenigsegg CCX is my all-time favorite car, above anything else. I nearly cried when I saw the picture above. A dealer in New York decided it would be a good idea to take one of his customer’s cars for a spin around town. The [...]

Koenigsegg Trevita – The Shimmering Diamond

Koenigsegg Trevita – The Shimmering Diamond

In Koenigsegg’s latest press release for the new Trevita, they say “When sunlight hits the car, it sparkles like millions of silvery white diamonds infused inside the visible carbon fiber weave bodywork.” I hear that kind of stuff all the time in press releases – a manufacturer trying to make the car sound amazing and [...]

KoenigSaab CCX-3

KoenigSaab CCX-3

Last week we learned that Swedish supercar maker Koenigsegg made a promise to buy lagging Swedish passenger car maker Saab, who is currently wholly owned by GM. Considering the other cars that Koenigsegg makes, what could come from this acquisition? Koenigsegg’s slowest car – the CCX – produces a minimum of 806 horsepower for a [...]

Koenigsegg Buys Saab

Koenigsegg Buys Saab

Well this comes as a bit of a surprise. Scandy automaker Koenigsegg, most well known for making a two-seater supercar of prodigious performance, has just put the final ink on the contract to buy Saab. What’s most interesting to us, the gearhead, is that Koenigsegg makes fast cars, and Saab has been known to make [...]

eBay Watch: 2007 Koenigsegg CCX For Sale

eBay Watch: 2007 Koenigsegg CCX For Sale

Koenigsegg CCX You don’t see this every day – a real live Koenigsegg CCX for Sale on eBay. Man if I had an extra $400,000, this would be mine in a New York minute. For those of you not familiar with the Koenigsegg CCX, it’s a supercar made in Sweden, and holds the second fastest [...]

Fastest Production Cars in the World – Quick Update

Fastest Production Cars in the World – Quick Update

Back in March I wrote a post listing the 10 Fastest Cars in the World. It was hugely popular (and still is,) but I’ve received so many comments telling me that the list isn’t accurate anymore. I plan to do another comprehensive post on this in the future, but for now here is a quick [...]

Top 10 Fastest Cars in the World

Top 10 Fastest Cars in the World

So here we are, the list of the top 10 fastest production cars in the world, ranked by top speed. All the cars you would expect are on the list, ranked from fastest to slowest (though calling any of these cars slow is blasphemy.) We start the list with the king of fast. Keep in [...]

Top 10 Supercars of 2006

Top 10 Supercars of 2006

Supercars.net just released their 3rd annual “Top 10 Supercars” list for 2006. First place is a no-brainer, but there are a couple of surprises. Keep reading for the list: Ferrari P4/5 by Pininfarina The car has been designed, engineered and built entirely by Pininfarina, bringing to life something that, just a few months earlier, was [...]