Car and Driver teststhe Koenigsegg CC, faster than the F50!

[Gustav]

http://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/3256/koenigsegg-cc-v-8-the-swedish-super-egg.html



The Koenigsegg's got game, for sure. In late August, C/D technical editor Larry Webster flew to Sweden, where he hooked up the electronic gear to the Super Egg. Webster made four runs to perfect his launch of the powerful car, by which time, natch, the clutch of the well-used development car began to give way. Nonetheless, it was quicker to 100 mph at 8.2 seconds than the last Porsche 911 Turbo (8.9) and Ferrari F50 (8.5) we tested, and its quarter-mile time of 12 seconds flat would have blipped past the Porsche (12.3) and squeaked past the mighty Ferrari (12.1). Imagine what it might have done with a perfect clutch. Its 0.99 skidpad performance was better than the F50's 0.95 and the Porsche Turbo's 0.93, and Webster noted that the Koenigsegg was running worn backup tires at the front of the car. But we didn't have room to run it flat-out.

Brochure in PDF form here:

http://www.koenigsegg.se/download/koenigseggpdf.zip

Sounds interesting!

[JohnH]

In EVO magazine in April they did a test and stated that when it came out in production it would be faster than the F1 which if it does 0-100mph in 8.2 secs it about 2 secs slower. Does this mean they have altered the car since April as they were stating the following numbers:

655bhp
553lbs torque
1100kgs
0-62mph 3.2 secs
242mph max

[18790775]

i think when they talk about faster they mean top speed, in the article it mentioned that with the right gearing they feel it could beat the f1's top speed

Alex