Christian Von Koenigsegg Says His Spyker-Bound Engine Will Last "200 Years Or Something"
Koenigsegg has a knack for building engines with bonkers four figure outputs. So what happens when it puts together a naturally-aspirated V8 with a much more ‘modest’ 592bhp, as it has done for Spyker? It’ll be incredibly strong and reliable, says Christian von Koenigsegg.
Speaking to Road and Track at the Geneva Motor Show, he said: “It’s over-engineered for their needs, because the structure can take 1500 horsepower and they’re having 600…our engines are bulletproof with 1360 horsepower, our customers don’t kill engines, so that engine will last for I don’t know…200 years or something.”
Clearly von Koenisegg is exaggerating a tad, but it shows how confident he is in the engines his company will supply to the Dutch supercar maker. It should be quite an engine, too: peak power comes in at 8000rpm, and the dry-sumped unit is good for 443lb ft of torque. It replaces the old 4.2-litre Audi V8 Spyker had been using with a supercharger attached.
The new 5.0-litre Koenigsegg-sourced engine will appear in the C8 Preliator (above), which is limited to just 100 units. The last few years for Spyker have been decidedly rocky, so it’s good to see them back.
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What a Koenig plan between them
200 years? Well, as this is Swedish so I think that engine would last forever, until a Volvo crashes into it…
That will be the day when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object, causing a big bang, from which a new planet is created.
Redline it too much you’ll melt the engine bay and the engine will just drop onto the floor
100% 😎
Interesting, very interesting, still glad to see Spyker is back anyway
Thats cool, But can it do 200 mph…
Probably, but it’s not built primarily for being a fast car..
Who cares
Depends on gearing. Theoretically you could reach that speed with a moped if it wasn’t for friction. But again F40 could reach 320 kph with “only” 450 bhp.
Quality over quantity. If he did everything right then i dont see why not.
The first thing I saw about the engine is that fixing thing having a rotor-like shape lol
It’s called a flange ;)
But once given to Takumi,
It will blow in a single race with a buggati
Only if he doesn’t pay attention and over revs it to 12k rpm
and, traditionally,:
Can’t wait to listen the sound of it