That 'Stolen' Koenigsegg Everyone Freaked Out About Was Never Stolen and Now It's For SaleFor months, the supercar world was convinced that one of the rarest Koenigseggs on earth had been stolen. Enthusiasts followed the saga, traded theories, and treated the missing One:1 like an unsolved crime. Now the truth is out, and it's far less dramatic than the rumor mill suggested. The car was never stolen at all. It was seized, transported to Munich, and handed to a leasing company — and in a few weeks, anyone with deep enough pockets can buy it.The 2015 Koenigsegg One:1, chassis number 7108, is set to cross the block at the RM Sotheby's Tegernsee Auction in Gmund am Tegernsee, Germany, on July 4, with an estimate between $9 million and $11 million. That figure alone tells you where this car sits in the hypercar hierarchy.How a Seizure Became a Theft StoryHere's the crux. According to reports, the One:1 wasn't taken by thieves — it was seized and brought to Munich, where it ended up with a leasing company. That detail also explains why it's heading to auction at all. A leasing firm holding an eight-figure hypercar has exactly one logical move: sell it. RM Sotheby's gets the consignment, the company recovers its money, and the car gets a new owner with a clean and very public chain of custody.The Car Itself Is the Real HeadlineStrip away the drama and chassis 7108 is still one of the most extreme machines Koenigsegg has ever built. The One:1 takes its name from its perfect one-to-one power-to-weight ratio, a figure that made it a benchmark at launch and keeps it in rarefied air today. Power comes from a 5.0-liter twin-turbo V8 making 1,341 horsepower and 1,011 pound-feet of torque, routed through a 7-speed dual-clutch gearbox shared with other Agera variants. The result was one of the most extreme performance cars ever produced.The Rumors Didn't Hurt Its ValueA car wrapped in theft rumors is now expected to bring as much as $11 million at public auction. The confusion didn't dent its value — if anything, the saga handed chassis 7108 a level of name recognition most hypercars never achieve. Buyers in this segment aren't scared off by a complicated past as long as the paperwork is clean, and a seizure resolved through a leasing company and a major auction house is about as clean as a complicated story gets. Whoever raises the winning paddle on July 4 gets a One:1 with full transparency about where it has been.AdvertisementAdvertisementThe hard truth is that the most interesting thing about the "stolen" Koenigsegg was never the theft — because there wasn't one. It was watching the entire enthusiast world fall for a story that a single fact would have ended. The car is fine. It was always fine. And now it's for sale, with an estimate that proves a few months of bad rumors mean nothing when the machine underneath is this special.Related reading:A Stolen $80,000 Graduation Camaro Recovered in a DayWin a 2026 Corvette ZR1 for a Good Cause10 Automotive Gadgets Worth Checking OutJoin our Newsletter, follow our Instagram page, and connect with us on Facebook.
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