The 2008 Koenigsegg CCX will be featured at RM Sotheby’s upcoming auction, “Fort Lauderdale” that will be held on March 29-30, 2019, in Florida. The pre-auction estimate of this unique and rare car is USD 950,000 -  USD 1,200,000, and it will be offered in lot 3086 at the auction. “The CCX offered here is especially significant in the way that it helped Christian von Koenigsegg fulfil his dream. This black CCX with its six-speed manual transmission was the first American-specification car delivered to a U.S. customer. It retains its dark silver Dymag wheels and matching ‘Top Gear’ rear wing. Koenigsegg technicians at Ferrari of Scottsdale upgraded the engine output from 806 to 980 horsepower, making it unimaginably fast in the right hands. This first U.S.-market CCX has covered just over 1,000 miles and is ready to be enjoyed as its maker intended, at great speed,” states the auction house. The chassis number of this car is YT9XH33B88A007044. RM Sotheby’s traces down the history and context of the present car and states, “With his eyes on the American market, Christian von Koenigsegg took to the stage at the 2006 Geneva Motor Show to unveil a mid-engined sports car that would be compliant with stringent U.S. safety and emissions standards. The CCX shown to the world that day in March was the result of an audacious decades-long effort to defeat the odds and turn a fledgling company into a successful supercar builder with staying power. The X in its name signified the 10th anniversary of the first trial of the Koenigsegg CC (short for Competition Coupe), about two years after Christian von Koenigsegg first founded his eponymous company.” RM Sotheby’s further adds, “The first production Koenigsegg arrived in 2002 as the C8S, a hand-built supercar with a chassis composed of Formula 1-grade carbon fiber-reinforced Kevlar and honeycomb aluminum. The dihedral synchro-helix actuating doors that would become a Koenigsegg trademark were one of many technological standouts, though they did not overshadow its ferocious 4.6-liter twin-supercharged V-8. The CC8S was succeeded by the CCR, which boasted more than 800 hp, but Christian von Koenigsegg’s sights remained on a viable global-market supercar.” This CCX though had the same basic proportion as that of the previous models, yet it was drastically different from them. The car carved a prominent place in the annals of supercars, after it smashed a host of Guinness World Records when it hit the track. https://www.blouinartinfo.com/              Founder: Louise Blouin Read more