Koenigsegg livestreaming debut of ‘newest member of the family’ at 12:00 EDT Friday

On January 1 this 12 months, Koenigsegg teased a new vehicle on Instagram with the caption, “Expensive 2022, here is our New 12 months’s decision – Extra final efficiency by way of intelligent engineering and optimum design.” The corporate broke its ensuing silence Thursday night time by teasing a reside debut to start at 12 p.m. Japanese / 9 a.m. Pacific in Pebble Beach. The teaser picture boasts a silhouette that appears just like the CC8, the Swedish producer’s first automotive, with the addition of a roof scoop. Past that, we’ve nothing greater than gathered hypothesis as to what it might be.

There’s the entry-level Koenigsegg that founder Christian von Koenigsegg has mentioned for some time that he needed to launch. There’s the CC12 undertaking with Swiss retailer and supercar storage Carage, which seems primarily based on the CC8S manufacturing prototype and would fulfill the word about “final efficiency and intelligent engineering,” however the timing is off; in April, Carage owner Kim Struve said the CC12 would “be launched in a 12 months’s time.” The Supercar Blog has heard this new factor might be Christian’s fiftieth birthday reward to himself, referred to as the Annira or the CC850S, packing greater than 1,300 horsepower right into a 1,300-pound curb weight and fitted with a “magic transmission.” Some surmise it is Koenigsegg lastly reckoning with a battery-electric automobile, however we expect that is the longest shot of all. He told CarBuzz two years in the past, “It really could be a lot simpler for us to only do a pure electric car, as a result of we might throw away complexity however add weight. However I would relatively have complexity within the tremendous costly sports car than add weight.”  

That appears to us to be sufficient guessing for at this time. The one different rumors we have heard that we might imagine true are that there shall be a tiny manufacturing run and each unit is already offered out. We have now however just a few hours to seek out out what’s actually occurring. Based mostly on the corporate’s merchandise since, oh, ever, it is going to in all probability be particular.

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