Christian von Koenigsegg was born in Stockholm in 1972. He has said that as a child he watched a Norwegian animated film about a bicycle repairman who builds a racing car, and decided that was what he wanted to do. In 1994, at twenty-two, with money from an earlier trading business, he founded Koenigsegg.
It took eight years to deliver the first car, the CC8S, in 2002. The company settled in Ängelholm, in the south of Sweden, in the hangars of a former air-force base — its ghost emblem is a tribute to the squadron that was based there.
Koenigsegg builds its own engines, gearboxes and carbon structures, and has patented ideas the big manufacturers were not willing to try, from engines without camshafts to a gearbox with nine speeds and several clutches.
In 2017 an Agera RS reached an average of more than 446 km/h over two runs on a closed public road in Nevada, then a record for a production car.
The Jesko, which followed, is named after his father, who backed the company from the start. The Agera and the Jesko are both in this catalogue.
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What he built
Cars in the catalog that carry his work — or his name.
