Christian von Koenigsegg is a glutton for engineering punishment. His Swedish hypercar company currently builds the Jesko (which has just set the 0400km/h0 record) and it’ll soon start delivering the new CC850 and Gemera to customers. That’s three distinct models, each with their own headscratchingly complex innovations.

And yet, amongst all this, he said “yes” to a request from a customer who wanted their oldermodel Agera RS melded with the best bits of a Jesko and CC850 to create an absolute oneoff.

Many engineering headaches later we have this, the Chimera, which blends an Agera RS with the 5.0litre twinturbo V8 engine from a Jesko and the fiendishly complex manualcumautomatic gearbox from the CC850.

Over to Top Gear Magazine’s EditorinChief, Jack Rix, who’s been to Sweden to drive this unique Koenigsegg…

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