While some cars get pampered for a lifetime, one very special Koenigsegg lasted a mere fortnight. The world’s first customer-delivered Koenigsegg Gemera, the Swedish marque’s four-seat mega-GT was found smashed up outside the swanky Hotel d’Angleterre in Copenhagen, its windows shattered and stones flung at the mirrors and doors. It’s the sort of scene you’d expect on a rough industrial estate, not on the doorstep of one of Scandinavia’s grandest addresses.
It’s especially painful, considering CEO Christian von Koenigsegg himself flew in to personally hand over the keys just fourteen days earlier. The Gemera in question is priced around $2.9 million even before Denmark’s brutal registration duty gets involved. Add that in, and the on-road figure climbs into stratospheric territory.
Danish outlet Boosted.dk reports the attack happened early in the morning, and police have since confirmed they’re investigating it as vandalism. As for who owns it, the car was delivered to Carage Luzern, a Swiss Koenigsegg dealer and has been spotted driving around on Swedish plates over the last couple of weeks.
Rumors say that it’s (un)lucky owner could be Jan Struve, a Danish collector who may have kept it on Swedish registration to avoid those stratospheric registration taxes we mentioned. It’s been driven hundreds of miles already, before this incident probably sealed its fate of not being left out of sight again. Koenigsegg hasn’t confirmed the buyer’s identity, and unless this car is spotted out and about with its owner, we’ll probably never know for sure.
Mechanically, the Gemera is deserving of all the attention, both good and bad. Under the bodywork sits a twin-turbo 5.0-liter V8 paired with three electric motors, good for a combined 2,300 horsepower, sent to all four wheels. Koenigsegg originally planned a smaller three-cylinder option too, nicknamed the Tiny Friendly Giant, but production headaches killed that idea off.
If you’re wondering if the owner can just send his new prize and joy off to the local dealership to have repairs done, Koenigsegg components are all hand-built, and a laminated, sensor-embedded windscreen alone could realistically run into five figures once shipped and fitted. Factor in the mirrors, trim, and bodywork stone chips, and a repair bill north of $100,000, possibly closer to $150,000 once the car makes its way back to the Koenigsegg factory, wouldn’t be a stretch. All that, just because the owner chose to park on the street instead of the hotel lobby.