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Rural Canadian Wins Koenigsegg CCX, Has No Road To Drive It On

Louie Edgi, a cancer patient currently residing in the horribly frigid area of Norman Wells, Canada, has won the Cash and Cars Lottery, which supports the Alberta Cancer Foundation and the Canadian Cancer Society. The prize? A Koenigsegg CCX. The...

7:00 PM on Fri Nov 21 2008, by Andrew Didorosi, 12,939 views, Comment

Driving The Black-on-Black Koenigsegg CCX Inside The Exotic Car Bunker

If you're going to take a black-on-black Koeningsegg CCX for a short drive and then a trip into the Lamborghini Las Vegas bunker hidden within The Palazzo, you might as well bring a camera with you. Though the camera work in this StreetFire video...

2:20 PM on Fri Oct 31 2008, by Matt Hardigree, 4,683 views, Comment

Maserati Claims Fastest Production Nürburgring Lap In MC12, Pretends Viper Doesn't Exist

Joining the "we're faster than you and we can prove it in a completely unscientific way by racing around the same racetrack in a production car under various conditions and providing our own timing" club is the Maserati MC12, which now claims...

4:40 PM on Fri Oct 10 2008, by Matt Hardigree, 5,135 views, Comment

Koenigsegg To Build 700 HP Four Door, Prototype To Debut At Geneva

If the Porsche Panamera and the Aston Martin Rapide aren't exclusive or fast enough for you, wait until the Geneva Motor Show next spring. A report from Car Middle East claims the mad men over at Koenigsegg are planning a four-door, all carbon...

10:00 AM on Thu Aug 21 2008, by Ben Wojdyla, 2,466 views, Comment

The Great Corn Conspiracy: Ethanol Additives Damaging Certain Boats

Many of us around these parts maintain a bit of skepticism when it comes to the prospect of corn-based ethanol serving as a long-term gasoline substitute, or even a viable short-term patch before our great hydrogen-powered future. Fun though it...

3:20 PM on Tue Apr 15 2008, by Matt Hardigree, 1,358 views, Comment

Commenter Of The Day: We Get Crazy Biblical

The Lord spoke unto us today and forbade us from choosing beercheck as today's COTD. Despite a desire on our part to give him the most prestigious daily award in all of automotive reader commenting for his creation of a new word —...

6:00 PM on Thu Mar 6 2008, by Ray Wert, 1,499 views, Comment

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5:01 PM on Thu Mar 6 2008, 41 views

Koenigsegg CCXR Edition: Tripping the Light Fantastic

Remember the Christopher Walken skit on Saturday Night Live where the inveterate creepy guy continues asking Will Ferrell for more cowbell? Well the Koenigsegg CCXR Edition needs more carbon fiber. The rebodied CCX is positively rotten with the...

6:00 AM on Thu Mar 6 2008, by Ben Wojdyla, 5,077 views, Comment

Grasscrete: The Lovechild of the Yard, Driveway

No longer will the decision need to be made whether to have a driveway or a nice, beautiful lawn. A happy medium has been found in Grasscrete, a grass and concrete hybrid. It's essentially a checkered pattern of concrete that allows grass to grown...

3:30 PM on Sat Dec 15 2007, by Travis Hudson, 5,319 views, Comment

Rules of the Road: Jalopnik's Guide to Speed Limits

With the first street legal Koenigsegg CCX arriving in the U.S. this week, we thought there couldn't be a better time to review the current status of speed limit laws. Sammy Hagar may not have been able to drive 55, but the CCX can go...

3:00 PM on Fri Dec 14 2007, by Matt Hardigree, 9,817 views, Comment