By Henry Kelsall
YouTuber Mr JWW has taken a look at a collection of Koenigseggs in Switzerland, featuring the first production CC8S and the Agera prototype.
There is no arguing that Koenigsegg produce some of the finest supercars in the world. The Swedish car company, the brainchild of Christian von Koenigsegg, began with the CC8S in 2002 and has created many more along the way. Cars such as the Agera, Jesko and the latest in the form of the CC850. Built in such limited numbers, makes them a rare sight, seeing multiple examples in one place is next to impossible, until now.YouTuber MrJWW has bene lucky enough to see an insane Swiss-based collection of the supercars, all in an immaculate garage build.
The cars range from the Agera prototype to a KNC Koneigsegg Naked Carbon Regera. Eight of the supercars are together in one room at the Carage collection. Providing a unique viewing of one of the most insane collections of Swedish supercars in the world.
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The First Production CC8S Features In The Collection
The collection has many iconic Koenigseggs in it, but the most significant is the incredible CC8S within it. This is chassis #2, so only the second ever made, but it is the very first production CC8S ever made, the first production model from Koenigsegg. Only six examples of the CC8S were ever produced by Koenigsegg, which also makes this one of the rarest supercars of all time. As significant cars go, they don’t come much better than this, as the Koenigsegg story really started with this car.
The CC8S has a 4.6-liter supercharged Ford Modular V8 under the hood, with the engine producing 655 hp. The supercar produces 553 lb-ft of torque at 5,000 rpm while it redlines at a high 7,250 rpm. Koenigsegg have become famous for their innovative transmissions. And the story began here too with their specially developed six-speed manual for the CC8S. This was thanks to Italian company CIMA, and manual transmission would be a focus of its spiritual successor the CC850 some 20 years later. Performance figures for the CC8S give it a 0-62 mph time of just 3.5 seconds, while its top speed was 240 mph. Putting it on the same level as the McLaren F1. Even in 2023, there aren’t that many production cars that are actually quicker than the CC8S.
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The Koenigsegg Agera Prototype Is On Display
Mr JWW draws our attention to another significant car in the collection. The Koenigsegg Agera made its debut in 2010, and it would become the world’s fastest production car in 2017. The YouTuber points us towards one such Agera, one that says ‘prototype’ on the side. This chassis was an Agera development car, and from this one car, we got the Agera, Agera S, Agera R and the Agera RS. The car also evolved into the Koenigsegg One:1, a run of just six cars and this prototype has the One:1 style hood, but with no air intakes.
Meaning the removable roof can still get stored under the hood, as the car is on the original Agera platform. The Agera itself has a 5.0-liter V8 under the hood, twin-turbocharged, producing 947 hp and 811 lb-ft of torque so a big jump from the original CC8S. The Agera has an innovative transmission, a CIMA seven-speed dual-clutch which is the first to feature just one input shaft. This works with the second clutch slowing the input shaft during upshifts, which helps to reduce the time taken to synchronize the next gear.
This results in not only faster shifting times, but also a lighter transmission weighing just 179 lbs. The Agera itself weighs just 3,164 lbs, with the 0-62 mph of the first version 3.0 seconds. An Agera RS broke the world speed record for production cars, with a speed of 277.9 mph.
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Naked Carbon Regera Is An Ultra-Light Supercar
This collection doesn't include any ordinary Regera either. The car as a part of the collection is a KNC Regera, which stands for Koenigsegg Naked Carbon. The process here involves the removal of any lacquer and clear coat to strip the supercar right back to its raw-carbon finish. You could feel the weaves in the carbon were you to run your hand across the body work. It is the most extreme way to save on weight, much like how F1 teams are stripping paint back on their cars to save weight.
What it also does is give the Regera this chrome-like finish, even though there is none on the car. JWW claims the process takes potentially thousands of hours to complete, yet this isn’t the most remarkable aspect of this supercar. Powered by a 5.0-liter twin-turbo V8 with hybrid power, the transmission in the supercar effectively does not exist. The car sports a Direct Drive System (DDS). This includes the battery, an electric motor and starter, the twin-turbo V8 engine and finally a hydraulic coupling and then the final drive unit.
The coupling uses fluid to transmit the mechanical power of the Regera, opening and closing, with the power sent to the rear differential via the coupling. There is a final drive ratio of 2.85:1, and we have a single, 7th gear together with the coupling to form the entire transmission in the car. This is a more compressed explanation of the transmission. But it was one of the most remarkable innovations ever developed for a supercar. Thanks to this magical system, the Regera has a 0-62 mph time of just 2.8 seconds, and the car held the 0-249-0 mph record of 31.49 seconds for four years before Rimac recently broke it with the Nevera.
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Koenigsegg’s CC850 Is Their Greatest Creation
How the company has evolved from these cars to their latest creation is incredible. Koenigsegg’s latest supercar, the CC850, is as close to a true successor to the CC8S as is possible and brings in everything we’ve seen from their previous hypercars. The CC850 takes transmissions to another level with a Light Speed Transmission, carried over from the Jesko, but now sporting an Engage Shift System (ESS). This creates the most powerful manual production car ever with 1100 hp from its twin-turbo V8 engine. Remarkably, this engine gets its power with no extra hybrid assist at all. Paired with a clutch pedal and six-speed gated shifter, the clutch is a genuine one that operates the gearing, rather than simulate the feel. Meaning the CC850 will stall if you do not get your revs right. But you can even flip it to automatic mode and let the gearbox do its thing when you want as well.
The CC850 is the culmination of everything learned by the company from all the eight cars within this remarkable collection. Cars that have been groundbreaking in many ways, and some of the fastest on the planet.
This Koenigsegg Collection Is A Rare Sight
It's not often so many Koenigseggs are under one-roof. Let alone the first customer CC8S or the Agera prototype. There is a significant amount of money in this room, with the original CC8S now costing $585,000 in today's money, while a production Agera would set you back at least $1.5 million. That gives you some idea as to how valuable this collection is, likely pushing well beyond the $10 million barrier.
Source: Mr JWW YouTube Channel
