Is Koenigsegg planning 200mph super saloon?
Author: Chris Barker
Published: 22 August 2008
Is Koenigsegg setting its high-performance sights higher, longer and wider behind the scenes? Well, that’s what some folk are currently taking educated guesses about.Having clearly tapped on Porsche’s and Aston Martin’s shoulders and asked them “Wow! What’s that over there!?” – Whilst pointing at nothing in particular in the middle distance to distract attentions away from screens containing images of the new Panamera and Rapide high-performance four-door super saloons - Koenigsegg’s designers have seen enough.Seen more than an eyeful of the upcoming Porsche Panamera and Aston Martin Rapide to know that it must act fast – very fast – if its to keep up with the four-door hyper-performance saloon changes which are a’ foot in ‘fantasy driving land’.That’s the story that this week is emerging from ‘potential big news story land’; a fictitious place where motoring journo’s playfully loiter with intent, hoping to steal the march on such headlines.Whilst Koenigsegg remain as none committal as Gary Glitter deciding on where he’s going to call home next, word has it that a senior figure has implied that such a car is very much part of the Swedish supercar makers future plans, with even a possible launch date of 2011. After an official unveiling at the 2010 Geneva Motor Show.Depending on which doors you hang around outside cupping your ear against, rumour again suggests that such a vehicle is already two years down the development road, and the clay modeling phase. Which means the final carbon fibre detailing stage is the only thing that stands in the way of the airing of a 200mph+ new supercar to salivate over.However finances have become a stumbling block, in order to get it from here to the production stage. Hence a Koenigsegg contingent currently ‘holidaying’ in the Middle East to attempt to arouse some interest. After all, it would instantly emerge as one of the vehicle’s biggest export markets – cited at 20% - along with the US (50%) and Asia (30%).
The super saloon ‘could’ muster its forward and backward motion care of a whopping 700bhp V8 engine, yet would be constructed on a whole new platform. Although the existing Koenigsegg CCX supercar would unburden itself of sole rights to a magnitude of carbon fibre components.Despite the idle, but as yet unfounded chit-chat about supposed fiscal difficulties prior to any future Koenigsegg project sign off, the supercar maker’s ‘man in the know’ insists that it could manufacture 70 – 80 super saloons per annum, alongside around 35 CCX models.MT wait open minded and mouthed at the prospect.
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