Koenigsegg: new car coming in 2026, but not an EV because they’re “like robots”

Got a few million rattling around and in search of a super-exclusive Swedish hyperthing? Bad News! Every single Koenigsegg is sold out.

“We have nothing to sell,” Christian von Koenigsegg told Top Gear. “Which is kind of good, but also annoying, because it’s fun to interact [with] and supply enthusiasts with their dreams and make them come true.”

However, there’s also Good News! A new Koenigsegg is on the horizon, and it’ll land as soon as 2026 or early 2027. “We will introduce something new in one or one and a half years, and then we will open up the order books again.”

It’ll be something unique and special that possibly debuts a shiny new bit of tech, too. “Doing very limited runs means you need to develop a lot, because they all need to be different,” said CvK. “And they all need to have meaning, not just [be] the same thing.”

What it likely won’t be, is electric. For as much as CvK admires electricity powering automobiles, he noted the need for something a little more primal powering his automobiles.

Plus, there’s the inescapable feeling nobody really wants a powerful EV hypertoy.

“The appetite in the market for this level of car, fully electric, is extremely low,” said CvK. “So that’s one aspect. But also, [I’ve] kind of experienced electric cars myself for many years, and loving the responsiveness, the smoothness, how easy it is to live with it and all of this.

“But, after a while, if you’re a car enthusiast, you want to talk to the beast, right? You want to have a dialogue. It’s an argumentation. You want to hear how it’s feeling and in what mood it is.

“You want the throbbing, the pumping, the heat, the sounds, the shifts, all of these aspects that just make it come alive. I would say an electric car is a bit more of a robot. This is a bit more of an animal.

“And it’s a bit like what the watch industry went through, of course. You had the 70s, you have the quartz watch coming in and killing the analogue mechanical watches. But then they came back because people just wanted a hand-built emotional piece.

“Here, it also brings more performance around a track than any EV can because it’s lighter. But you have all of those aspects of Swiss watchmaking in the shape of a car.”

He hasn’t ruled it out in the distant future, mind. “Maybe one day, who knows. There might be something. But at the moment, we’re happy as it is.”