Koenigsegg Automotive

Christian von Koenigsegg founded the company in 1994 after being inspired as a child by a Norwegian stop-motion animated film about a bicycle repairman who builds his own racing car. Determined to create the perfect sports car, he spent years developing the CC prototype before the production CC8S debuted at the 2002 Paris Motor Show. The CCR broke the Guinness World Record for fastest production car in 2005 at 387.87 km/h. The Agera platform, launched in 2011, formed the basis for increasingly powerful variants culminating in the Agera RS, which set an absolute production car top speed record of 447.19 km/h in 2017 on a closed Nevada highway. The 2019 Jesko targets 300 mph and features Koenigsegg's in-house 9-speed Light Speed Transmission. The 2020 Gemera became the world's first four-seat hypercar, pairing a hybrid powertrain with practical touring capability. Koenigsegg consistently files more patents per vehicle than any other manufacturer in the world.