The cars built by Koenigsegg are currently not legal for North American road use, but that will soon change as the Swedish maker of carbon fiber missiles has announced its first dealer on US soil.
Manhattan Motorcars in New York will be the first outlet on the continent and it will first sell the crazy One:1.
Car&Driver says that the One:1 will go on sale in the US in spite of not being federally homologated. Owners will still be able to take their car out, but only under ‘show and display’ conditions which is basically a clever way to bypass the governing law. It’s exclusively applied for expensive limited-series cars like the ones made by Koenigsegg – a more familiar model, the Porsche 959, also arrived on US roads under the same conditions back in the day.
The source article also foretells the arrival of an all-new Koenigsegg. The automaker’s US lineup will consist of the current Agera and this new model which will be detailed further next year.
Apparently, both the new model and the Agera (pictured) will gain airbags and other features necessary for full road homologation in the US and Canada. Production will also be ramped up to 22-24 cars per year, figures which make Ferrari’s annual tally of 7,000 cars sound not-so-exclusive at all.
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