Koenigsegg's Latest $3.6 Million Hypercar Has Just Been Recalled
Fortunately the fix can be completed via OTA update
No matter how expensive a new car may be, there's a good chance it'll be recalled at some stage. For the Koenigsegg CC850, that time has come, and now all seven examples delivered in the United States need to be fixed because of an issue with the electronic parking brake. The NHTSA says Koenigsegg received a report of a CC850 rolling away in the U.S. on October 12. According to the recall notice, the driver exited the vehicle with the engine running and reverse gear engaged, causing it to start rolling away.
The notice doesn't say whether any damage occurred, though the incident prompted the Swedish hypercar manufacturer to launch an investigation. After a week of internal testing, Koenigsegg discovered that the parking brake will not engage while the transmission is in Reverse and the engine is running. In this case, the only way to engage the parking brake is to hold the button down continuously. The NHTSA says this condition falls outside the scope of its static parking brake tests, so it appears Koenigsegg issued this recall of its own accord, not because the CC850 fails to comply with any Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards.
An over-the-air update is coming from the automaker
Koenigsegg manufactured the seven impacted vehicles between September 28, 2025 and August 2, 2026. All of these CC850s will receive a free over-the-air software update to resolve the issue. If customers opt against having the software update implemented, they'll have the opportunity to bring their vehicle to an authorized Koenigsegg dealership and have the update completed on site.
The CC850 stands out from other Koenigsegg models in part by using the Swedish automaker's part-manual, part-auto nine-speed Lightspeed transmission. It uses three shafts and seven clutches, and can be operated with a traditional clutch pedal as well as a gated manual transmission. Alternatively, the CC850 can be driven like a typical automatic. Ferrari recently introduced its own manual transmission for the 12Cilindri, which has a similar philosophy to Koenigsegg's approach. However, the Ferrari version operates as an add-on to the existing dual-clutch transmission.