Meet the Koenigsegg CC850, built to celebrate the Swedish hypercar maker’s 20th anniversary. Koenigs … who? That’s OK, because unless you’re an inveterate gearhead, spend inordinate amounts of time digesting hypercars on Instagram, or hang out with the sort of people who think nothing of splashing several million bucks on a Ferrari Daytona SP3 or a Lamborghini Sián FKP 37 or anything Horacio Pagani makes, there’s a good chance you might never have given much thought to Koenigsegg.
After all, in two decades the Swedish firm has built just 250 cars.
But oh, what cars. Koenigsegg’s greatest hits include the 806-hp CCR, which in 2005 beat the McLaren F1’s production car speed record; the 1,017-hp CCXR that in 2007 outpowered the Bugatti Veyron; and the 1,341-hp Agera One:1, so called because its 1,360 metric horsepower propelled a car weighing just 1,360 kg (2,998 pounds) for a weight-to-power ratio of one to one.
And then there’s the Jesko, which we