Koenigsegg has previewed a brand new hypercar in a shadowy picture uploaded to social media, forward of a full reveal later this yr.
The teaser, posted on the model’s Instagram account, exhibits a traditional Koenigsegg silhouette, that includes easy traces, a wrap-around windscreen and a teardrop-shaped cabin.
The recessed design of the back lights, that are completely different to these used on the model’s different present fashions, is visually just like 2006’s CCX – a 795bhp hypercar which was the primary Koenigsegg to make use of an in-house developed V8 slightly than a modular Ford unit.
A distinguished entrance splitter echoes the design of Koeingsegg’s earlier vehicles, together with not solely the CCX but additionally the CCR, which was the quickest street automotive on the planet on the time of its launch in 2004.
On the rear, a refined diffuser seems just like that of the Agera, which took the title of world’s quickest manufacturing automotive from the Bugatti Chiron in 2017 by recording a mean pace of 277.9mph on an eleven-mile stretch of closed street, although Bugatti took again the report final yr.
2022 marks the twentieth anniversary of the primary deliveries agency’s first manufacturing automotive, the CC8S. It’s attainable that this upcoming automotive may very well be a homage to the 646bhp supercar, six buyer examples of which had been in-built 2002 and 2003 after an eight-year growth course of.
Koenigsegg’s Jesko hypercar and Regera grand tourer use a 5.0-litre twin-turbocharged V8, whereas the Gemera super-coupé makes use of a hybridised 2.0-litre twin-turbocharged three-cylinder motor. A homage to the model’s previous vehicles would probably use a variant of the V8.
Koenigsegg additionally revealed its New Yr’s decision is to create “extra final efficiency by means of intelligent engineering and optimum design.” The model has change into well-known for its technological developments, such because the ‘Free Valve’ engine featured within the Gemera hybrid, a 1700bhp grand tourer with room for 4 inside.