This is what Murray said about Koenigsegg:
The creator of the McLaren F1 Gordon Murray told this in an interview a few years back:
JB: What about the Edonis and Koenigsegg?
GM: You almost can’t count cars like the Edonis and Koenigsegg. With the Zonda you have to take the car seriously – the quality’s not bad, he’s selling the cars, people are driving them and using them and liking them. When there are 50 Edonises driving around and people are saying ‘This is good’, I’ll consider it a proper motorcar.
JB: The Koenigsegg is aiming for 250mph, too.
GM: People never learn lesson one, which is ‘don’t shout your mouth off before you’ve built the car’. Before the 1989 world crash there was an article in Road & Track, ’24 supercars you can buy’ and I think the only ones that actually arrived were us, the Jag and the Bugatti – three out of 24. With the Koenigsegg they’re talking about a horsepower figure and top speed for which you need a Cd of about 0.17 or something. It doesn’t add up. You shouldn’t do that. We didn’t say anything about our motorcar – nobody knew it was going to be middle seat until the launch – we just shut up and built it and then let people drive it.
Production of the McLaren F1 drew to a close in May 1998, with a total production of 100 cars, made up as follows:
F1
F1 LM
F1 GT | 64
5
3 | GTR 95
GTR 96
GTR 97 | 9
9 |
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