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A Koenigsegg SUV. Can you imagine? Company boss Christian von Koenigsegg can technically imagine it, though if the idea of such a wild" SUV delights you, better look away now.Speaking to TopGear.com at the Geneva Motor Show, he noted that while it was possible to turn his supercar chassis into one that could accommodate an SUV, he"d rather, um, not."To make our carbon chassis into an SUV, you"d have to stretch that chassis," he told us. "You"d keep the front and rear ends as they are, go more extreme on the thickness of the honeycomb, you"d put a carbon cage structure up top technically I don"t see a big issue with it. "It"d be a pretty wild SUV because you"d have a big tunnel in the centre, huge sills, bucket seats. I think it could be a thing the market could accept. But I"m just not a fan of SUVs. To me they are fundamentally flawed. Sure we could sell them, but I don"t want to," he added.So there you have it. No Koenigsegg SUV. And isn"t there a little part of you that"s happy about that? While there won"t be an SUV, there will be a four-door Koenigsegg in the near future (as we first told you about last year). "That"s very much on the drawing board," Christian told TG. "It"s a project we"ve been working on for quite some time. I"d be surprised if that"s the next thing we release because we"re getting such a good response for our traditional type of supercars but it"s a car I"d love to do."It follows news that the Agera is now entering the final phase of its life the complete model run of 25 Agera RS cars has been accounted for, and three final Agera editions have been released. Then there"s the small matter of the newly revealed, production version of the Regera: a 1,500bhp, single-drive hypercar.
Date written: 2 Mar 2016
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 2384
A Koenigsegg SUV. Can you imagine? Company boss Christian von Koenigsegg can technically imagine it, though if the idea of such a wild" SUV delights you, better look away now.Speaking to TopGear.com at the Geneva Motor Show, he noted that while it was possible to turn his supercar chassis into one that could accommodate an SUV, he"d rather, um, not."To make our carbon chassis into an SUV, you"d have to stretch that chassis," he told us. "You"d keep the front and rear ends as they are, go more extreme on the thickness of the honeycomb, you"d put a carbon cage structure up top technically I don"t see a big issue with it. "It"d be a pretty wild SUV because you"d have a big tunnel in the centre, huge sills, bucket seats. I think it could be a thing the market could accept. But I"m just not a fan of SUVs. To me they are fundamentally flawed. Sure we could sell them, but I don"t want to," he added.So there you have it. No Koenigsegg SUV. And isn"t there a little part of you that"s happy about that? While there won"t be an SUV, there will be a four-door Koenigsegg in the near future (as we first told you about last year). "That"s very much on the drawing board," Christian told TG. "It"s a project we"ve been working on for quite some time. I"d be surprised if that"s the next thing we release because we"re getting such a good response for our traditional type of supercars but it"s a car I"d love to do."It follows news that the Agera is now entering the final phase of its life the complete model run of 25 Agera RS cars has been accounted for, and three final Agera editions have been released. Then there"s the small matter of the newly revealed, production version of the Regera: a 1,500bhp, single-drive hypercar.
Date written: 2 Mar 2016
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 2384
