That is F@c$ed Up!

[NewsWriter]

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Browsing the Top Gear site today, I stumbled upon this piece of troubling news.<!--more-->

Apparently, while on a test ride, Top Gear employee, Peter Grunert was taken for another kind of ride thanks to some less than safe driving by a senior engineer at Koenigsegg.

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The extremely rare Koenigsegg CCXR runs on biofuel (B85) which gives it more power than even the CCX. The CCXR is one of the few production cars in the world that officially produces over 1,000bhp (it makes 1,018 bhp). With that kind of power, it should come as no surprise that 120mph is attainable. However, power was working against Koenigsegg's senior engineer when he attempted to take a blind right hand curve at over 120 mph and hit a highway cone.

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The rare exotic machine spun around before coming to rest again on the CCXR's belly. According to Grunert's remarks on the Top Gear website, "One of the exotic, lightweight wheels with magnesium spokes bolted to a carbon-fibre rim had completely shattered," and "Behind us were the longest tyre marks I have ever seen: 265 metres of pirouetting rubber."

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The good news is, no one got hurt and the only CCXR in the world! is not a total loss. The bad news is that these guys just wrecked the only CCXR in the world!

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By the way,Koenigsegg is reportedly planning to offer owners of the regular CCX the ability to upgrade their cars to accept the biofuel.

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[mitsubishi]

wow.. thats a shame.
Im not sure if i believe hitting a cone at 120mph will spin you around though. I know for a fact pulling the ebrake at 65mph will....:stupid:

[Duttyman]

Hmm good point dread. Only them man know for sure

[Tekknikal]

:eek4: :cry:

damn those wheels are magnesium and carbon.. .the cost..for each one is crazy....plus all that broken carbon fiber :eek4:

btw i think this is the second time top gear was involved in a collision with a koenigsegg..here's their review of the ccx:

(part1)
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(part2)
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(just the collision, from the end of part2)
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[Duttyman]

Yep. At least this time them man were not in the driver's seat