This week's Top Gear: Konigigsegg CCX returns with wing! PIX *spoilers*
*taken from another forum*
Koeniggsegg adds a tastefully-looking wing on the 800 something hp CCX and brings it back on this week's Top Gear episode. They say the new wing will reduce the 250 mph top speed of the "original" CCX due to drag, but the main concern was whether it could claim the Zonda F's #1 spot on the Power Lap Board.
I don't have a video clip for you just yet, but I'm sure someone will have uploaded the segment on youtube by the time you're reading this.
Ok on with the pics...
I must say I was a bit worried when Koenigsegg said they were going to add a wing to the original CCX because the car looked absolutely amazing wingless. So I was pleasantly surprised how well the new wing turned out on the car, and that Koenigesgesgg didn't go extreme and equip the CCX with a hideous spoiler like the one on the Zonda or McLaren F1.
This car is just visually perfect in every way. :eek3dance:
And of course, the reason you clicked on the thread..
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May-29-2006 19:27
Euphorica
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Registered: Sep 2004
Location: GTA
The "in house" Koenigsegg motor is a slightly overbore dry sump Ford 4.6 with carbon fiber plug wire covers and a carbon fiber timing cover.
Yeah, you can see the resemblance pretty easy. The valve covers are almost identical.
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May-29-2006 19:29
Fir3start3r
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Registered: Oct 2001
Location: Toronto, ON, Canada
I remember watching the original Koeniggsegg episode before the wing and even then they were convinced that when it came back, it had the chance to top the charts...
Just waiting for someone to upload the episode now on YouTube
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May-29-2006 20:59
rabbitjoker
aural sadist
Registered: Aug 2002
Location: Toronto, ON, CANADA
Topgear had the 1000 Bugatti Veyron on yesterday. Faster than the Maclaren F1!
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The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all change to silver glass...and then you see it...
...white shores...and beyond...the far green country under a swift sunrise."
May-29-2006 21:13
StereoPrincess
sassy one-piece
Registered: May 2001
Location: SPFRI
ha ha.
i don't understand this show.
May-29-2006 21:14
cf2thousand
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Registered: May 2005
Location: Downtown
That car aint shitttttttt...
Wait till this guy hit's the track.
Make 1.17.6 look like a jog in the park.
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May-29-2006 21:14
Fir3start3r
Armin Acolyte
Registered: Oct 2001
Location: Toronto, ON, Canada
quote:
Originally posted by cf2thousand
That car aint shitttttttt...
Wait till this guy hit's the track.
Make 1.17.6 look like a jog in the park.
WTF is that on the side of the car?
Are those small packages from Columbia?
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"...End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path...one that we all must take.
The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all change to silver glass...and then you see it...
...white shores...and beyond...the far green country under a swift sunrise."
May-29-2006 21:25
cf2thousand
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Location: Downtown
quote:
Originally posted by Fir3start3r
WTF is that on the side of the car?
Are those small packages from Columbia?
And I quote ...
"It doesn't take much to make a Tempo unique - owning one that still runs is usually enough! Our boy has gone WAY overboard on this beauty... The unique side cladding was actually taken from a soda vending machine!"
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May-29-2006 21:42
Fir3start3r
Armin Acolyte
Registered: Oct 2001
Location: Toronto, ON, Canada
quote:
Originally posted by cf2thousand
And I quote ...
"It doesn't take much to make a Tempo unique - owning one that still runs is usually enough! Our boy has gone WAY overboard on this beauty... The unique side cladding was actually taken from a soda vending machine!"
LOL!
True story...all you have to do is look out your car window at the side of the highway to prove that.
I'm surprised there are any working Tempos left at this point...
soda. vending. machine.
wow.
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"...End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path...one that we all must take.
The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all change to silver glass...and then you see it...
...white shores...and beyond...the far green country under a swift sunrise."
May-29-2006 22:09
VERTiG0
cunning linguist.
Registered: Dec 2003
Location: no longer Cambridge, Ontario, Canada
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I can't wait to watch this one.
PS: RJ: Lots of cars are faster than the McLaren F1 these days
