How Koenigsegg changed the hypercar game with carbon fiber

The Drive takes a trip to Koenigsegg’s incredible factory in Sweden to hang with Christian von Koenigsegg himself and learn the secret of how the hypercar company mastered its most crucial material: carbon fiber. Though it’s common on high-end performance cars today, making everything from the chassis to intakes to wheels to body panels out of carbon fiber is still a complex and labor-intensive process. And the quality of the finished product depends entirely on how good a company is at developing it. Koenigsegg, as you might imagine, is among the best in the world. We guarantee after watching this, you won’t look at carbon fiber the same. -- Relaunched on YouTube in 2024, The Drive is all about the culture of cars and cars for the cultured. We also have a daily enthusiast news website where we write stories you actually want to read https://www.thedrive.com/ FOLLOW US! Instagram →   / thedrive   Facebook →   / thedrive   TikTok →   / thedrive_official   X → https://x.com/thedrive Threads → https://www.threads.net/@thedrive WORK WITH US → [email protected] 0:00 Carbon fiber basics 1:04 How Koenigsegg does it better 4:12 "Very labor intensive" 6:40 Why it's worth it