Koenigsegg CC S8; Speedy Swede.

Byline: Matt Davis Christian von Koenigsegg builds the one that could dethrone the McLaren F1 for good. At this writing we are waiting to personally witness testing at Nardo in southeastern Italy, where the Koenigsegg CC S8 (``competition coupe supercharged V8'') has the McLaren F1 in its sights for the official all-time 0-to-60-mph and top-speed records among unmodified homologated production cars.

That means it has to beat the 3.2-second and 240.1-mph marks set by a 1993 McLaren (running without the standard rear spoiler and rev limiter) at the Ehra-Leissen circuit in Germany ...

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