I know this is one of the weirdest names that you’ve ever heard in your life, but still you need to know more about this machine. Why? Because this is the only genuine scare and worry in the world for the smug guy who’s spent a whopping ten million dollars for a Bugatti Veyron. Even though the CCX is not cheap at around six and a half million dollars, you could still park three Ferraris, one Lamborghini and a dozen Hondas in your garage with the money saved. But the point is not that – the point is that you still won’t be any slower than the arrogant bloke in the Bugatti.
You need to know about this car because it’s as fast as any, I repeat ANY other car in the world. Yes, including the Bugatti Veyron if you’re still wondering. The buggers in the Bugattis better show some respect and not attitude, for this car seems all set to snatch the World’s Fastest Production Car title back from the Veyron very soon. A title which belonged to the CCX’s predecessor – the CCR, before the Veyron took it away.
But there’s a catch. The Veyron is a masterpiece when it comes to stability, aerodynamics and thermodynamics. Volkswagen has spent obscene amounts of money to make that car sanitized, controllable, predictable, and should I say – flawless. There’s science behind every single nut, bolt and screw of that car, which unfortunately is not the case with the CCX. A lot of guesswork has gone into the making of this brutal beast. It might sound unjust to Koenigsegg, but I don’t have any other way to put it when I know that the company was told by a TV show to fit a spoiler in this car after it lost grip, flew and crashed during a test lap.
Koenigsegg, the maker of the world’s fastest production car had to be told by a TV show that your cars need a spoiler to increase downforce which in turn would provide more grip to the tyres and hence prevent it from spinning or taking off from the tarmac. Wonder what delicacies the R&D team of the company was savouring when they were supposed to log data in a wind tunnel. Or was there any wind tunnel testing at all? You need advise for fitting a spoiler from a TV show? In a car that supposedly does 258mph (412km/h)? Sorry sire – you drive the cars that your company produces yourself; I want to live a little longer. Even today that spoiler comes as an option at some extra price – like one more CCX needs to be crashed on another TV show for the thing to come as a standard fitment.
The excuse that Koenigsegg came up with is that the spoiler increases downforce (oh really?? Wow!!), which in turn reduces the top speed of the car (how so intelligent!!). This according to me means - we’ve made a car which hypothetically touches 412km/h, but it might fly off and kill you even before it reaches 350km/h without the rear spoiler, but if it doesn’t, we’ll be the fastest production car in the world. We care two hoots for you and it doesn’t matter how much money you have paid to us, since we’re insanely obsessed about being the manufacturers of the fastest production car. So fuck you and your dear life – pay us extra money if you want to come in the way of our lunacy and slow us down.
So go ahead, buy this car, pose around it and there’s no bar on driving it either. But just like the odd spoiler, there might be a hundred more flaws which need a crash before they’re revealed. While you might discover one when you crash a CCX, you might not live to tell Koenigsegg about it.
IF YOU BUY IT
You’re cool because
This is one of the rarest, costliest and the most exclusive cars in the world
It’s one of the most powerful and the fastest too
It’s faster than the CCR which held the record for the fastest production car in the world
The CCX is the fastest car in the world around BBC Top Gear’s circuit
Till the time you dont want to beat the Veyron in real world, it's pretty safe
You still don’t have a Veyron
People will laugh at you if you tried telling them that your car is about to become the world’s fastest production car
They’ll kill you if you tried telling them that it’s made in
All Germans will be your enemies
Half your family and friends will never be able to pronounce your car’s name
You spent six and a half million dollars and still are second best
3 comments:
Not sure if u already are/did, but I think u r fully qualified to write in car magz...
Good job bro ;-)
Mr. Amit.... There are few correction to be made in your blog..... The Koenigsegg CCX which you think is 6.5 million $ is actually not... To be precise it is Rs.4.52 Crores [Stated by Autocar India in the May 2006 Edition .... if I'am not wrong] and the Bugatti is 75 crores on the Other hand... So even if you can't afford a Bugatti, you can buy a CCX and tell you children "I'm keeping pace with the bugatti veyron next to us (for some time)".... The CCX is still practically the best car in this world!!!!!
The Veyron costs in the region of rs 10 crore in India, not 74 crores firstly. The CCX is around 5 crores I guess. Thats a factual correction that i want to make.
Rest of it is all subjective. The CCX might be the best car for you, but it isn't for me. It's as simple as that. I respect your thoughts about the car.
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