Koenigsegg Achieves Ultimate Luxury Problem
When the Jesko twins were offered to customers, Koenigsegg made an already exclusive hypercar even more special by forcing buyers to choose between the Attack and the Absolut. You couldn’t order both. So when Christian decided to celebrate and effectively send off the Jesko with one last hurrah in the Sadair’s Spear, it was no surprise to learn that all 30 units were sold out long before the general public even knew of its existence. But according to company founder and CEO Christian von Koenigsegg, who spoke with Top Gear, absolutely everything you’ve ever seen with a Koenigsegg badge is sold out:
“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.” So what’s next?
More To Come, And Soon Enough
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“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,” Christian continued. “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.” As a company always on the cutting edge of innovation, it makes sense for Koenigsegg to keep volumes low and technologies new, but even then, one’s fingers can be burned.
The Gemera was announced in 2020, just as the world went into lockdown, and at the time, it was meant to feature an innovative hybrid system that would see a 2.0-liter three-cylinder engine with camless Freevalve technology paired with two turbos, a dry sump, and a trio of electric motors. All of this was because a V8 couldn’t fit. But by the time 2023 arrived, Koenigsegg had found a way to cram a V8 engine in the Gemera anyway, and in 2024, the three-cylinder option was canceled due to a low take rate. Finally, in November last year, it was reported that the Gemera was sold out. That arc suggests that Koenigsegg couldn’t sell a small hybrid, even one as impressive as that. The Gemera needed a big V8.
An EV Is Off The Table, More Performance Is Not
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As Christian von Koenigsegg has indicated on numerous occasions, there simply isn’t much “appetite” for hyper EVs. Thus, it’s entirely possible that Koenigsegg might use its Dark Matter e-motor to give a combustion-powered Jesko replacement even more power and traction, but electricity will never be the sole source of propulsion. Bugatti-Rimac CEO Mate Rimac has even suggested that the Nevera’s successor might not be all-electric, and that’s arguably the most incredible EV on the planet.
“After a while, you want to feel something, you want to talk to the beast, you want to have a dialog,” von Koenigsegg told TG. “You want the throbbing, the pumping, the heat, the sounds, the shifts, all of these aspects that just make a car come alive.”
With the CC850 showing that a hypercar can be both relaxing and engaging in the transmission department, and the Sadair’s Spear once again highlighting that tire technology is holding the world’s hypercar manufacturers back to some degree, guessing what comes next is all but impossible. But we know it’ll be good.