Koenigsegg CCXR
Koenigsegg CCGT
Who says you can't be green and enjoy super dooper über-cars?
Not Koenigsegg, that's for sure, because it has just come up with a
version of the CCX supercar that runs on clean, green ethanol and
just happens to produce 1,018bhp.
That's more than 200bhp up on the standard car's meagre 806bhp for
this CCXR, as the Veyron-munching machine has been called.
Also demonstrating just how much power Koenigsegg squeezes from its
in-house developed V8 engine, they've had to detune it to go
endurance racing.
It seems 806bhp is too much of an advantage, so the engine has been
reigned-in to a paltry 600bhp to take part in the FIAT GT1
series.
The racer is called the CCGT and had no problems slimming down to
the minimum weight limit, even getting below the 1,100kg minimum so
that the team could place ballast weights around the car to help
with handling.
Koenigsegg's engineers have also been busy sorting out the racer's
aerodynamics. Wonder if they've had any help from the
Stig?
Faster and more efficient then the
Veron?
