I was looking through lists of cars of old car games that I played. This is something I do once in a while for getting ideas of what cars to write about and also since cars I have raced in video games usually have significant meaning to me as they helped me during some not so good times in my childhood.
I came across a hypercar I used to race in a video game that I recognized immediately but who’s name I didn’t recognize. The Koenigsegg CCXR Trevita. The Trevita was one of the coolest looking and also fastest cars which is why I liked racing it down tracks and highways.
But the real life story of the Koenigsegg CCXR Trevita on the other hand is a lot more incredible. In fact the Trevita is one of the most unique hypercars ever created and here is why.
The Trevita’s exterior is made completely out of carbon fiber, which was then coated in an additional diamond layer and this coating is what makes up the car’s unique shining silver color.
This was a very specialized process and is something that hasn’t been done again in another hypercar as of now which shows just how amazing it was that Koenigsegg managed to make something like this. The Trevita was also one of the fastest cars of its time having a top speed of over 400 kmph, a number at the time only a handful of cars like the Bugatti Veyron could reach.
Originally there were three Koenigsegg CCXR Trevitas planned but because of how expensive and complex the process of adding the diamond coated layer on the car was they ended up only building two of the three cars.
So what happened to the two existing examples you might ask?
Well. One of the two Trevita’s was bought by the famous American boxer Floyd Mayweather, who owned the car from 2015 until he decided to sell the car in 2017. It sold for over $2.6 million. This specific car remained in California and is still there to this day and has been seen around a few times, the most recent sighting that I could find of this car being at Koenigsegg Newport Beach in a photoshoot taken in 2021.
The second Trevita on the other hand has very little info that I could find of. The only footage I have ever found of what might be a possibility of being the 2nd Trevita is one of the car seemingly at a dealership in France back in 2018. Most probably this car is in a private location.
I wouldn’t have thought that a car I loved to race in a video game would turn out to have such an amazing backstory behind it but after finding out about it, I definitely have a lot more appreciation for Koenigsegg and of course the amazing, beautiful and unique creation called the CCXR Trevita.
The Trevita to this day remains the rarest car Koenigsegg has ever produced and one of the most complex, specialized and unique supercars ever created.
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