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NewsBy: Ryan De Villiers
Koenigsegg’s modern offerings are extremely costly, but an example of a 2007 CCGT recently sold at auction for roughly R78 million at the Goodwood Festival of Speed.
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The Koenigsegg CCGT is one of the rarest models to ever be produced in the firm’s history. Born out of a desire to compete in the Le Mans GT1 class, the CCGT remained in prototype purgatory for seven years but ultimately never realised its goal of competing in the GT1 class due to regulation changes.
Koenigsegg’s founder had built the CCGT to the exact requirements of the GT1 class regulations at the time of the car’s inception. This meant that the car was founded on a carbon fibre monocoque and had a curb weight of just 1435 kg. The chassis was less than 2 metres wide, with its cockpit designed to be at least 70% of the width of the car. In terms of its size, the CCGT was 4293mm long, had a total width of 1996, and was only 1220mm in height making it nearly identical to the Agera RS that followed nearly a decade later.
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Motivating the high-strung egg was a 5,0-litre twin-turbocharged V8 that produced a total output of 715 kW and over 1000 N.m allowing it to complete a 0 to 100km/h sprint in 3 seconds. Mated to the sonorous V8 was a specially developed seven-speed dual-clutch transmission and electronic differential.
The car was supported by double wishbone suspension and two-way adjustable gas-hydraulic shock absorbers on the front and rear axles, which is a testament to the car’s cutting-edge composition considering it was developed in 2007.
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The CCGT is one of the most high-strung models to ever be produced in the company’s earlier years and to this day is one of the rarest products to ever spawn from its production lines. With that said, do you think that it’s worth the R78 million price tag?
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