CCX Yet Another Koenigsegg CCX Crash

[Bruce]

I'm afraid I cannot offer a proper translation (because it's in Swedish), but apparently this time the driver (who happens to be the Koenigsegg production boss) was talking on the phone and "forgot" to slow down in time for a corner

Aftonbladet: Här kraschar superbilen igen

 

[DaSilva]

Correct - Haha
The boss went out.. That's style !

Well.. You shouldn't talk in you're CellPhone while driving!

 

[Zonda]

Not good publicity for Koenigsegg yet again. Either they are very very unlucky or that car just happens to be somewhat dangerous.

 

[Zafiro]

Not good publicity for Koenigsegg yet again. Either they are very very unlucky or that car just happens to be somewhat dangerous.

I hope you read the explanation why it happen!

it could have happen with a Golf like the article says. and Christian dont see this as bad publicity since it was the owner to blame in this case.

 

[Zonda]

Yeah I read it, but seriously. It keeps happening to them

 

[Zafiro]

Yeah I read it, but seriously. It keeps happening to them

so what? its a 800hp car. there been a lot of murcielago crashes as well and thats AWD car then the Murci bust be a real danger. I read about a lot of CGT crashes too. We have to remember, these sportcars not a Volvo V70

 

[Zonda]

Yeah but there are a few thousand Murcielagos and Ferraris around so you'd expect some of them to be crashed. The same with any car really. But there aren't thousands of Koenigseggs around, more like 30. And this amount of incidents with that few cars around really is bad luck. I don't think it's a dangerous car, I barely think anything negative about it anymore but I feel bad for the company with their bad luck. Even if the details say it could've happened to any car, people will still see it as "another crashed Koenigsegg". Very undeserved bad luck, and too much of it.

 

[LaArtist]

meh the car is useless ive said it from start.. without the wing..it cant be driven..
even the stig couldnt..
and with the wing..its not what they promise it to be..

its a compromized product

 

[Zafiro]

meh the car is useless ive said it from start.. without the wing..it cant be driven..
even the stig couldnt..
and with the wing..its not what they promise it to be..

its a compromized product

Sportauto drove the car without the wing around the N-ring and hockenheim.
ad the stig, well he went offroad with a Murcielago as well.
and this time it was a driver error, not a car error and how do we know this car didnt have the wing on?

 

[Bartek S.]

The Top Gear crew has been behind some pretty spectactular crashes in recent history. Need we remind you of Richard Hammond's jet car crash that nearly took his life? Then there was reportedly an Enzo that got hit by a bus two years ago on its way to a photo shoot. The Stig even took a Koenigsegg CCX off road at the test track last year. Thanks to some less than safe driving by a senior engineer at Koenigsegg, we can now add another Koenigsegg to the list, the extremely rare Koenigsegg CCXR.

To refresh your memory, the CCXR runs on biofuel, B85 to be exact, which gives it more power than even the CCX. The CCXR is one of the few production cars in the world, as a matter of fact, that officially produces over 1,000bhp. It makes 1,018 bhp, and all that power was working against Koenigsegg's senior engineer when he attempted to take a blind right hand curve at over 120 mph and hit a highway cone. He and Peter Grunert, a member of the Top Gear team along for the ride, were spun around like a top before coming to rest again on the CCXR's scraped belly. Grunert tells us what he remembers over at Top Gear's website, which includes "One of the exotic, lightweight wheels with magnesium spokes bolted to a carbon-fibre rim had completely shattered," and "Behind us were the longest tyre marks I have ever seen: 265 metres of pirouetting rubber."

At least in this instance a Top Gear employee wasn't behind the wheel and can't claim responsibility for reducing the world's population of exotics by yet another vehicle. And truth be told, while the CCXR that bit it was the only one in existence, Koenigsegg is reportedly planning to offer owners of the regular CCX the ability to upgrade their cars to accept the biofuel.
Top Gear involved in crash of only Koenigsegg CCXR in existence - Autoblog