He’s built some of the planet’s fastest and most powerful machines and is now working on a radical four-seat hybrid that defies conventional hypercar wisdom.
Plastic bags, ballpoint pens, frozen chicken, and the collapse of the Soviet Union. That's how the screaming madness of a 1,600-hp twin-turbo flat-plane-crank V-8, the brain-melting complexity of a nine-speed transmission with seven tiny clutches, andall began. The through line? Christian von Koenigsegg, serial entrepreneur, self-taught engineer, and steadfast lateral thinker.
Von Koenigsegg says he still benefits from this way of thinking, of just looking at details and remembering them, seeing how they're different and trying to figure out why they're different. He was, he says, the sort of kid who took apart the family VCR to see how it worked—which it often no longer did once he put it back together.
"We didn't have any engineers," he says."A truck driver from the company next door had half an engineering degree and started helping, working nights. He also had a father who was an engineer at Volvo, and we got a drawing table from him, and a book on drawing principles and details and tolerances. I started drawing the suspension. I became a modeler. I modeled the CC8S myself with two other people. We did not have any computers for engineering work until 1997, maybe 1998.
Today's lineup includes the Jesko—named after von Koenigsegg's father—and the CC850, both of which are powered by the 5.0-liter twin-turbo dry-sumped, flat-plane-crank V-8 designed in-house at Koenigsegg. In the Jesko the engine produces a scarcely believable 1,602 hp and 1,106 lb-ft of torque on E85 . Smaller turbos in the CC850 mean the engine makes a mere 1,385 hp on E85 fuel and 1,021 lb-ft of torque.also mark a significant step forward in the history of Koenigsegg Automotive.
However, it's the hybrid powertrain that truly rips up the hypercar rule book and throws it in the dumpster.
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