Ferrari Mailing List: NFC: Koenigsegg CCXR crashed durring filming of Top Gear episode

[Scott Carpenter (scscottc]

Just found this story...
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2002410000-2007220309,00.html

On the plus side it looks like we can look forward to Supercars in the BIO
Fuel age :-)

Full story below.. the link has the pics.

Scott
'85 308
'71 Pantera
'03 996

ANYONE familiar with the BBC's Top Gear programme will know that they're not
afraid of pushing their test cars to the limit.

It's probably not a huge surprise that when they asked to borrow a one-off
Bio Fuel powered Koenigsegg CCXR, the manufacturer insisted that a senior
Koenigsegg engineer drive the 1018hp, 250mph supercar between photographic
locations.

All was going well until one of the engineers "hit a cone" which had been
left on the inside of a corner, lost control and crashed, causing tens of
thousands of pounds worth of damage.

The conservative estimate of their speed when they hit cone was 120mph. The
tire tracks from the skid were apparently 265 meters long (about 875 feet!).

Powered by a 4.7-litre biofuel V8 engine and fitted with twin superchargers,
this environmental supercar of the future had been bought for £606,000, but
was valued at much more than that.

Today you'd be lucky to part exchange it with something as mundane as a
Ferrari F40.