CC8s Design

With lessons learnt from the CC prototype XP001, the static model and XP002, they would go on refining the shape, adhering to Christian’s and Crafoord’s philosophy of an efficient and minimalistic design approach. With a supercharged V8 engine, Koenigsegg® named the new car the CC8s with 8 designating the cylinders and S designating Supercharged induction.

The work began in the workshop where the full size clay model of the CC8s pre-production model would be built based off the 1:5 model Crafoord and Christian had designed back in 1993 but with some changes being down to it down the line. This project would take over a week to finish and Koenigsegg® ensured there’s room for addition of features he’d thought about patenting even before the company had flourished. The finished clay shell ended up with a lot of changes done to it such as the tri-circular headlights and taillights, which would later become a signature of the car for some time.

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Front Page...Thomas Koch prepairing 3-D scan 1998... front page botten right / picture made by: Claes Axstal

Finished clay shell of the pre-production Koenigsegg® CC8S prototype XP003