If an average Koenigsegg isn't enough for your collection, those speed-crazy Swedes with the long name have the answer. This bewinged track-oriented beast is the Koenigsegg CCGT1 Megacar, and it's the result of a failed race programme. Failed, that is, because the rules changed and Koenigsegg are not the sort of car makers to waste a piece of perfectly good superfast design. So they're making 70 of these, and they're not exactly designed for a Sunday run to the garden centre.
Road legal the Megacar is, but track friendly is perhaps a better description. The idea was that the competition CCGT1 endurance racer would compete at the top level, including at Le Mans. But motor sport's ruling body, the FIA, changed the rules of the GT1 class and Koenigsegg was left with a race car that couldn't race. Luckily for 70 owners, they decided to make it (broadly) suitable for everyday use and put it on sale.
Specifications are more or less designed to drop even the most world-weary jaw. Basis is the not exactly slow CC850. Power is from a twin turbo V8, producing 1,600 bhp on biofuel and a mere 1,280hp on ordinary petrol from your neighbourhood supermarket. Aerodynamics are race derived, including that substantial rear wing. One of the options is a Track Package which, as Koenigsegg modestly put it, "takes the CCGT1’s circuit performance beyond anything we have ever offered before". Given that this is a company quite used to making 150 mph supercars, this is quite the statement.
Daily driver?
But the company wants this astonishing machine to be a "world-class dynamic daily driver" too. Nine speed sequential shifter mated to Koenigsegg's own electronics is standard, but a six speed manual gearbox is available for the purists, too. Interior "is designed for focused driving with minimal distraction" say these meticulous Swedes. Carbon fibre seating with six point harnesses is standard, while the Track Package adds carbon roll cage – allied to air jacks for swift pit stops and track oriented suspension - with racing seats for your and brave passenger.
Exterior finish is, as Henry Ford might say, any colour you like so long as it's Ghost Fibre, Koenigsegg's own "crystal white proprietary fibre and carbon matrix”. Looks great to us, and is handily super-tough and super-lightweight too.
So it comes down to price. Or would do if Koenigsegg hadn't already sold all 70 CCGT1 Megacars that they are going to handcraft at their HQ in Ängelholm to the south of Sweden. Still, you never know, there may be one megarich buyer who decides this particular Megacar isn't for them, so it's worth a call to Koenigsegg to ask to be added to the waiting list. They haven't listed an asking price. But you should know that this car's race predecessor, that unique CCGT GT1 Racer, sold at a Bonhams auction in 2023 for £3,319,000. Best get saving.
