CCXR crashed during Top Gear photoshoot.

[Pokiou]

The story went like this. There was only one CCXR in existence, the first-ever biofuel-powered Koenigsegg. Now the possession of a valued customer, the worth of this car was said to be greater even than its £606,000 price tag suggested.



The understanding was that once the Stig and I had spent enough time at the wheel to secure our cover feature, one of Koenigsegg's senior engineers would take over the responsibility of driving the car between photographic locations for us. We'd all be safer that way.

And so it was that I found myself a passenger in the biggest crash I've ever experienced.

Between the blur of the approach, the hit, the spins, the ditches, the field, the adrenaline, the shouts, the blue lights and the picking out of pieces of grit and dirt from my eyes, ears and scalp, some details I can remember.


Rest of the on the website.

http://www.topgear.com/content/featu...ries/05/1.html

[stmoritzer]

:shock:
good they aren't hurt.

On the other side can't wait to see this episode, new laprecord ?

LOL at the pic...." äähmm, Christian, we have a problmmm.. WHAAAAT!!!!!)
Kooeoenigeseeg is now looking for a new engineer

[vexor]

I think this is for the Magazine only but it would be nice to see it in a review when TG comes back for the summer special.

[asid631]

I hope this is a taste of the upcoming season, hard core cars being tested to the limit!!. I really really hope they cut down on those stupid challenges..!

[yg60m]

I think that if the Stig was named, it will be on TV (hope so anyway)

[dutchmasterflex]

Biofuel CCXR :shock:

[Ghostbat]

Originally Posted by insane Second time they've crashed a Koenigsegg...that's bad publicity for the car.

I think it's bad publicity for Top Gear. They should fuckin learn how to drive.

[Ghostbat]

Originally Posted by insane Originally Posted by Ghostbat Originally Posted by insane Second time they've crashed a Koenigsegg...that's bad publicity for the car. I think it's bad publicity for Top Gear. They should fuckin learn how to drive. Did you read it? one of Koenigsegg's senior engineers would take over the responsibility of driving the car between photographic locations for us.

Obviously not ops:

Still Jezza talked about the "TG-Wing" and how much safer the car was now. A wing that gives some extra 2kg of downforce.

[stmoritzer]

^
the pics looks the same .... on the new pics it's clearly a CCXR...
:bah: can't read swedish

[ViperASR]

'If we put this big sheet over it, maybe no one will notice...'

luckly no one was hurt. Someone wrecked a mustang on one of the roads that I drive quite regularly yesterday. 125mph into another car, killing all on impact. They found the engine for the mustang 150 feet away from the accident :shock:

[Mattk]

Hmm, the Koenigsegg really needs that wing, it seems.

[silentm]

what a mess! i'd like to have seen the skid marks on the road :shock:

[StanAE86]

Good that nobody was hurt. At first, I was worried it was a Top Gear employee that wrecked it...but luckily it wasn't. I hate to see what the driver had coming to him when he got back to Konigsegg's HQ.

Looking at the link to the other story, it looks like the same car and car cover. Perhaps a whole separate incident suggesting the car is cursed! What do I know. I drive a stationwagon.

[StanAE86]

"The Koenigsegg CCX tried to kill the Stig last year. Surely the green version - the biofuel CCXR - wouldn't do the same to Peter Grunert..."

Peter Grunert? A photographer for TG is my guess?