GTP Cool Wall: 2006-2010 Koenigsegg CCX

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2006-2010 Koenigsegg CCX

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It has more to do with the fact it's a name that doesn't exactly roll off the tongue.[/quote]
This.

You can show the car to people, share the specs etc, but when they ask you what it is, and you tell them, they respond with "whhaaaatttt?". Yeah, not cool in that sense.
 
OriginalCheezIt
Is it really that bad? :lol:

How about this?
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The bolded italic serif font makes me feel like I'm reading some book making fun of a newspaper.

I'm sitting on the fence about this thing. On one hand, its stupidly expensive, you have to explain what the car is to people, the looks are a bit conservative as well. On the other, it is Swedish, very fast, has a lot of uniqueness about it, and no one's heard of it :sly: so I don't know to give it meh or cool.
 
Azuremen
The bolded italic serif font makes me feel like I'm reading some book making fun of a newspaper.

I'm sitting on the fence about this thing. On one hand, its stupidly expensive, you have to explain what the car is to people, the looks are a bit conservative as well. On the other, it is Swedish, very fast, has a lot of uniqueness about it, and no one's heard of it :sly: so I don't know to give it meh or cool.
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Solid 👍. And when in doubt on a car, I usually give it the benefit of the doubt and say cool.
 
The fact that this came from a man who was a plain nobody and took the whole supercar game by surprise then it deserves to be Sub Zero.

Also keep in mind that it is one of many supercar manufacturers they started off with nothing but is really the only one tobe around with us today and never made any ridiculous claims.
 
AudiMan2011
Completely deranged and an utterly mentalist hypercar. Sub-Zero.

Also, the doors are awesome.
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For some reason, the doors remind me of this:
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Sub Zero, so much better than a Veyron IMO.
Slashfan
You can show the car to people, share the specs etc, but when they ask you what it is, and you tell them, they respond with "whhaaaatttt?". Yeah, not cool in that sense.
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That makes it cooler to me :lol:
 
It’s a Supercar, so it starts on dodgy ground.

Positives:
It’s not a Ferrari or Lambo. It’s quite fast in a straight line.


Negatives:
It’s not a Zonda. It’s got silly after market doors. It spun at high speed when the Stig tested it, which rather calls in to question if it has the chassis integrity to back up the power. So far, I’ve only ever seen them driven in London by very rich Arabs.

Uncool.
 
The original Veyron Killer. So powerful & fast that even the Stig couldn't tame it. And it looks completely glorious.

Subzero :)
 
Supercar - cool, IMO
Supercar made by a man who claims to have built it ground up = meh
Supercar which was actually designed by a completely separate team then sold as an entire project, designs, engine, and all to said man who claims to have built it from the ground up = uncool.
 
XS
Supercar made by a man who claims to have built it ground up = meh
Supercar which was actually designed by a completely separate team then sold as an entire project, designs, engine,
and all to said man who claims to have built it from the ground up = uncool.
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Citation? I've never heard him claim he built it singlehandedly. And I've never heard of him buying an already pre-made car. Would genuinely like to know more.
 
niky
Citation? I've never heard him claim he built it singlehandedly. And I've never heard of him buying an already pre-made car. Would genuinely like to know more.
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This was revealed ages ago in an early automotive article on the CC8 prototype. Sorry I don't keep old articles saved so I guess I'll go right ahead and say oh well no credit to my claim. But I know it's true and I dug for nearly an hour through the pages of Google searches but can't find an online copy of that article. However, it says right on his website that the car is bespoke to Koenigsegg, which isn't true, and Wikipedia cites him as the designer of the CC and early body mock-ups, which also isn't true. He even claims that the CC and CC8 used bespoke V8s but in fact the block and heads were sourced from Ford Racing until several years after the CCX was first released. And even then, Koenigsegg used the Ford design and internals to build their own blocks and heads. The Agera V8 is mostly Ford architecture, even though the V8 is built in-house.

Edit, so the original article is gone, but this is the best I could find for evidence.
The original project was called the Sethera Falcon. Here is the Wikipedia article. The article says the chassis was sold to Koenigsegg, however these pictures also prove more of the project was sold than just the chassis. The Koenigsegg timeline says the CC8 body was designed in-house. However, here we can see about 70% of the body was actually designed by Sethera.
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Interesting. Though most I can find online is that the chassis was used for the showcar, and doesn't say how far developed it was.

There's also a rebuttal online:
http://theitalianjunkyard.blogspot.com/2011/03/sweden-aint-that-cold-christian-von.html

Where Koenigsegg states that Akesson was commissioned to do a full-scale model based on an already existing 1:5 scale model, and that when they took over the building of the full-scale showcar, they bought the chassis so they had something to hang it on.

No word on how the actual production car relates to that pre-production chassis.
 
Very interesting! It's sort of a debate that quickly got snuffed out and is now the stuff of myth and lore, which sucks because I really want to know exactly what happened and who is correct!
 
Could be half and half. There may just be things that Koenigsegg "borrowed" from him, or they could be coincidental.

I doubt anyone could figure out what is what without access to photos of the frame of the Falcon, the show car and the production car side-by-side-by-side.
 
Meh... It is fast and has good appearance, but it is not my cup of tea
 
Not as exciting anymore, even if I'm a hormone addled teenager that likes Super Duper Cars like this crazy swedish villain car. I like the Agera more.

Also, Mr. Koeniggsegg is a supervillain.

.......... Merely Cool.
 
Current era supercars are generally uncool, but this one being Swedish and not being owned and driven around by every single footballer flaunting probably makes this one of the coolest supercars and will get a cool from me.
 
Stotty
It’s a Supercar, so it starts on dodgy ground.

Positives:
It’s not a Ferrari or Lambo. It’s quite fast in a straight line.


Negatives:
It’s not a Zonda. It’s got silly after market doors. It spun at high speed when the Stig tested it, which rather calls in to question if it has the chassis integrity to back up the power. So far, I’ve only ever seen them driven in London by very rich Arabs.

Uncool.
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You're saying it's uncool because of the doors. Are you therefore saying a Lamborghini is uncool for the same "problematic cliche" - having sccissor doors, and what are you saying about te cars handling? It spun at high speed because it lacked the downforce it needed and because The Stig was really pushing it, and since that incident it had a spoiler fitted to it and it claimed top position on the Lap Time Board.
 
RDF97
You're saying it's uncool because of the doors. Are you therefore saying a Lamborghini is uncool for the same "problematic cliche" - having sccissor doors, and what are you saying about te cars handling? It spun at high speed because it lacked the downforce it needed and because The Stig was really pushing it, and since that incident it had a spoiler fitted to it and it claimed top position on the Lap Time Board.
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Doors... yes and yes. The design of door is uncool. Unless fitted to a 300SL or a racing car.

Handling... yes, I am saying the car spun because it wasn't adequately tested and this calls in to question the integrity of the design and testing processes... would Pagani release a car that hadn't had it's high speed stability tested thoroughly?
 
First of all, the design of the gullwing doors on a '54 300SL is completely different to the gullwing doors fitted on a Koenigsegg. Even if they didn't test it adequately, lets not forget that this would have been a good oppurtunity to see where they went wrong and to not only fix the problem but prevent the same issue to occur later on models to come.

Secondly, what has handling got to do with a cars "coolness"?
 

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