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Koenigsegg Currently Has a Four Year Waiting List

Photo credit: Máté Petrány/Road&Track
Photo credit: Máté Petrány/Road&Track

From Road & Track

Ever wondered what qualifies as a huge challenge for a pioneering genius like Christian von Koenigsegg? For starters, a lot of people want to buy his labor intensive, hand-built products. That's challenging because while Regeras might be able to do a burnout at 160 miles per hour, it's still a bummer to pay millions of dollars for a car you can only drive five years from now.

Photo credit: Máté Petrány/Road&Track
Photo credit: Máté Petrány/Road&Track

Koenigsegg is more than aware of the problem, and told R&T this at the Geneva Motor Show:

We have a four-year waiting list, and we want to make that shorter, because it's getting tougher and tougher to sell cars with deliveries four or five years later. What does the world look like in four-five years, right? It's really getting the order stock out a little bit faster, that's the main focus, so we can get down to maybe 2-2.5 years, because there are so many customers who want to order more cars! Some of them are even ordering them now (at the show) despite the 4-5 year waiting list, but we have many many more that'd come after seeing let's say a 2-2.5 year list. That's the biggest challenge.We aim this year to be at the rate of 25 cars per year. Whether that happens, it's difficult to say exactly because we're ramping up in so many areas. I hope by the end of the year after, we're at 30, at least. Then, we need to set up new buildings and things like that. So this year - including the Agera RS as we're still building them - between 16-20 cars.

Photo credit: Máté Petrány/Road&Track
Photo credit: Máté Petrány/Road&Track

Needless to say, Koenigsegg keeps himself busy on multiple fronts. While his company will supply Spyker with around a hundred bespoke V8s, the Freevalve camless-engine technology is also heading towards series production in various applications. Yet if there's enough capacity left in them, the Swedish team also wants to go back to the Nürburgring for a record run this year with a rebuilt One:1.

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A lot on one man's plate, for sure. But does Koenigsegg look like somebody who isn't up for a challenge? 1500 hybrid horses say no.

Photo credit: Máté Petrány/Road&Track
Photo credit: Máté Petrány/Road&Track

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