Top Gear wrecks biofuel Koenigsegg CCXR

[HarlowJapAutos]

Well one of Koenigsegg's senior engineers really.

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.

Some pics:

[hashimsiddiq]

bad bad very bad
but there isnt much damage

[tiger727272]

Another car ruined whilst making top gear.

[system]

poor car!

[tiger727272]

@Harlow dis you see the last serious of top gear, i thought it was really crap they hardly reviewed any vehicles and the content was really awful.

[Skyline_Drift_Master]

@Harlow

This is the second time they wrecked a Koenigsegg.. They got something Against koenigsegg or it's too fast for them.

[HarlowJapAutos]

@ tiger727272

I agree they concentrated on them prating about for 95% of the episode and then spent the last 5mins on reviews.

I have to say the episode where they drove through the Deep South in America with slogans like Hillary for president and NAS Car Sucks painted on their cars was class!

[HarlowJapAutos]

@ Skyline_Drift_Master
I remember the episode when the Stig test drove it without the rear wing and it nearly killed him lol. They then sent him one with the rear wing. I can’t remember how fast it was but it was at the top of their board somewhere.

Full account on what happened:

1. We were travelling faster than I was comfortable with at that moment, on that road. 120mph is a conservative estimate of our speed at the point of first impact.

2. The engineer who was driving may well have forgotten that he had unbolted the rear venturi only moments before, to assist with the process of fitting camera equipment to the underside of the car at a location we were expecting to arrive at only a little further up the road. I really can’t say. What I can say is that the venturi would have been good for 100kg of rear downforce at the speed we were travelling at.

3. After accelerating hard up a long straight, the driver turned into a potentially open but partially blind right hander.

4. The largest traffic cone known to man had been left on the inside of the corner; a six-foot high lump of orange plastic with a solid, square-edged, extremely heavy base. We hit it.

5. There was a loud crunch from beneath the right-hand front corner of the car. One of the exotic, lightweight wheels with magnesium spokes bolted to a carbon-fibre rim had completely shattered, almost certainly at this point.

6. The car span once, and suddenly. I still had time to ponder.

7. Our trajectory took us towards a ditch. I imagined my face being ripped right off if the front of the car dug in and we flipped over. This was the worst of several bad moments. Like the venturi, the roof had been removed earlier.

8. The car bounced against the edge of the ditch and back out into the middle of the road, spinning violently four times again before heading back for the same ditch only further up the road. It skidded along on its flat underbelly like a plastic sledge before coming to a stop with the wheels straddling the ditch, facing the right way, not having hit an oncoming car, not having turned over. The structure of its carbon-fibre chassis tub remained perfectly intact. Behind us were the longest tyre marks I have ever seen: 265 metres of pirouetting rubber.

9. The underside was a mess, all four corners were shattered and the wheel had long since fallen apart but really, the state of the car belied just what carnage could have resulted.

10. A muck-spreader had just passed through the field we landed in. As a result, and only because of this, we now smelled of shit.

The sad part is the car was worth to be more than the £606,000 price tag suggested.

[HarlowJapAutos]

@ Skyline_Drift_Master

Found the Top Gear laptimes:
For anyone who doesn’t know they take a car every episode and see how fast it goes around the Top Gear Track.

1 Koenigsegg CCX (with TG spoiler) 1.17.6
2 Pagani Zonda F 1.18.4
3 Maserati MC12 1.18.9
4 Ferrari Enzo 1.19.0
5 Ariel Atom 1.19.5
6 Porsche Carrera GT 1.19.8
7 Koenigsegg CCX 1.20.4
8 Ascari KZ1 1.20.7
9 Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren 1.20.9
10 Ford GT 1.21.9
11 Porsche GT3 RS 1.22.3
12 Ferrari 360 CS 1.22.3
13 Chevrolet Corvette Z06 1.22.4
14 Lamborghini Murcielago 1.23.7
15 Pagani Zonda 1.23.8
16 Noble M15 1.23.9
17 Koenigsegg 1.23.9
18 Prodrive P2 1.24.3
19 TVR Sagaris 1.24.6
20 TVR Tuscan 1.24.8
21 Mitsubishi Evo FQ 400 1.24.8
22 Noble 1.25.0
23 Lotus Exige S 1.25.1
24 Lamborghini Gallardo Spyder 1.25.7
25 Lamborghini Gallardo 1.25.8
26 Morgan Aero 8 GTN 1.25.9
27 BMW Z4 M 1.26.0
28 BMW M5 1.26.2
29 Porsche Cayman 1.26.2
30 Ferrari 575 GTC 1.26.8
31 Chevrolet Corvette 1.26.8
32 Mercedes-Benz CLS 55 AMG 1.26.9
33 Lotus Exige 1.26.9
34 Porsche 911 GT3 1.27.2
35 Spyker C8 1.27.3
36 TVR 350C 1.27.5
37 Wiesmann 1.27.9
38 BMW M3 CSL 1.28.0
39 Marcos TSO GT2 1.28.2
40 Dodge Viper SRT-10 1.28.5
41 MG SV 1.28.6
42 Mitsubishi Evo VIII 1.28.9
43 Porsche 911 Carrera S 1.28.9
44 Mercedes-Benz CL65 1.29
45 BMW Alpina Z8 1.29.0
46 Subaru Impreza STi WRX WR1 1.29.4
47 Alfa Romeo 3.7 GTA 1.30.0
48 Vauxhall Monaro VXR 1.30.1
49 Subaru Impreza STI 1.30.1
50 Volkswagen Golf R32 1.30.4
51 Aston Martin DB7 GT 1.30.4
52 Audi S4 1.30.9
53 Porsche 911 turbo 1.31.0
54 Vauxhall VX220 turbo 1.31.3
55 Honda NSX Type-R 1.31.6
56 BMW 535d 1.31.8
57 Mazda RX8 1.31.8
58 Nissan 350Z 1.31.8
59 BMW M3 1.31.8
60 BMW 130 1.31.9
61 Ford Focus RS 1.32.2
62 Lotus Esprit V8 1.32.5
63 Audi TT V6 1.32.7
64 Jaguar E-Type 1.32.8
65 MG ZT 1.33
66 Noble 1.33.1
67 Mercedes-Benz SL55 AMG 1.33.2
68 Corvette Cadillac CTS-V 1.33.3
69 Renault Clio Cup 1.33.8
70 Holden Monaro 1.33.9
71 Ford Mondeo ST220 1.34.5
72 Jaguar XKR 1.34.7
73 Ford Focus ST 1.34.9
74 Volvo S60R 1.35.0
75 Vauxhall Vectra VXR 1.35.3
76 Alfa Romeo 147 GTA 1.35.6
77 Lotus Elise 1.35.6
78 Aston Martin Vanquish 1.36.2
79 Renault Clio v6 1.36.2
80 Honda Civic Type-R 1.36.5
81 Saab 95 hot aero 1.37.9
82 Mazzer 1.38.0
83 Bowler Wildcat 1.39.4
84 Bentley Arnarge 1.40.8
85 Overfinch 1.44.0
86 Aston Martin DB5 1.46.0

[Skyline_Drift_Master]

Nice info Harlow.

[PavementPounder]

damn!!

nice info(Y)

[hafzaal]

very informative (Y)

[toofast]

Dang

[foosa]

never liked the koenigsegg because of the long name spellings...and no suzuki mehran in the list

[hafzaal]

the mehran is history now

[HarlowJapAutos]

@ foosa
They have 2 lists one for production cars and the other for race cars the mehran is on the second list..lol

[amg]

thats bad one more koeineg wrecked

[Storm]

all i can say is,..."WHY?!?!"

[Konichiwa]

WHY DAMNIT WHYYYYYY!! damn u clarkson and the person who was driving it :P... they wrecked my dream car :(..

[takko]

a curse by the malaysian dudes for the insult to their national car...