Every single new Koenigsegg is sold out – even Bezos couldn't buy one
Fancy a Jesko? CC850? Gemera? Sadair's Spear? Koenigsegg can't take your money Skip 1 photos in the image carousel and continue reading
It's a position every CEO of a car company would love to be in: sold out, everything, for several years. And it's where Christian von Koenigsegg finds himself because every model he makes, or will make, is already spoken for.
Koenigsegg deals exclusively in limited run cars. The Jesko was limited to a total of 125 (the mix of high-downforce Jesko Attacks vs the more streamlined Jesko Absoluts was determined by customer preference), while the retro-styled CC850 is limited to just 70 (originally this was 50, but following overwhelming demand that was upped by 20).
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The 2,300bhp, four-seater Gemera will be positively common in comparison – limited to 300 cars – and the new, more track-focused Sadair's Spear is capped at just 30… all sold before we even saw it earlier this week.
'All our models are presently sold out, we have nothing to sell, which is kind of good, but also annoying because it's fun to interact and supply enthusiasts with their dreams come true,' Christian von Koenigsegg told TG.com. You might like
'We would love to have more, but we will introduce something new in one, one and a half years, then we'll open up the order books again. The something new we are working on - and we have several projects - are very limited runs, which means they all need to be different, and they all need to have meaning.'
Among those new projects is the Jesko replacement. Where the wild genius of Koenigsegg will go next, and how he'll top a 1,600bhp speed machine remains to be seen, but we have every confidence he will. We're also expected faster and more focused spin-offs from the Gemera's hybrid platform. What is for certain though is he's not cooking up a pure-EV hypercar.
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'The appetite in the market for this level of fully electric car is extremely low. I've experienced electric cars myself for many years and love the responsiveness, the smoothness and how easy it's to live with it.
"But after a while you want to feel something, you want to talk to the beast, you want to have a dialogue. You want the throbbing, the pumping, the heat, the sounds, the shifts, all of these aspects that just make a car come alive,' Koenigsegg told us.
'I would say an electric car is a bit more of a robot. Something like the Sadair's Spear is a bit of more of an animal and it brings more performance around a track than any EV because it's lighter. We're fusing in electrical drive here and there, and then maybe one day who knows, there might be something.
"But at the moment we're happy as it is.'
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