I've always been a Koenigsegg fan, ever since I was a kid.  From doing powerslides in the CC8S on Project Gotham Racing 2 on the OG Xbox, to watching the Agera R setting top speed runs on YouTube back in 2014, all very mind-blowing stuff.But they've managed to once more capture my attention, with a brand new model.

As many know, 2022 marks the 20th anniversary of Koenigsegg's first vehicle, the CC8S. Released back in 2002, this made headlines for being the most powerful production engine ever put into a road car, cranking out 655HP from a supercharged 4.6 litre Ford V8 and having a top speed of 240mph, directly trading blows with the then-record holder McLaren F1. And today, they're paying homage with an all new creation from the ground up; the CC850.

The CC850 has all the styling cues from the original CC with a modernized facelift, and dressed in carbon fibre from head to toe like its other siblings. The interior is all work, with carbon buckets and an analogue gauges to match the original as well. The centre console is also streamlined, with a single vertical screen and physical switches and buttons laid across.

Now we get into the transmission, which employs a system wonderfully named TWMPAFMPC. This special 9-speed gated gearbox has the best of both automatic and manual, having a standard 6-speed H-pattern manual gear array with a third clutch pedal which you have to manually actuate yourself, and an automatic mode where the full 9-speeds of the gearbox are controlled by the car for the highest performance. Swedish ingenuity strikes once more with this complicated design.

Under the bonnet is the very same engine we've seen in the Jesko; a 5.1 litre twin-turbocharged V8, however with smaller turbos, in order to reduce turbo lag to as minimal as possible. Even with the changes, it's still nothing to scoff at, with 1185HP on normal petrol, with a big jump to 1385HP on E85, more than double the output of the Ford V8 in the CC8S. Torque is also laid on thick with a earth-bending 1385nm, enough to make the tyres spin at the slightest blip of the throttle. The weight is also kept low, at 1385kg, making the power to weight ratio 1:1, like its older sibling the One:1, a nice touch.

This is a wonderful car to not only commemorate the CC's 20th anniversary, it also falls in the year when the man, the legend himself Christian von Koenigsegg turns 50, a wondrous occasion indeed.