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koenigsegg According to the company's web site, Christian von Koenigsegg has been dreaming of building the perfect sports car since he was five. Along the road to making that dream a reality, he invented (and abandoned) a device called the Chip Player, a forefather of theiPod, and an early version of the Click! snap-together flooring system. Von Koenigsegg was bored with running his import/export company, though, and so in 1994, at the advanced age of 22, he set up Koenigsegg Automotive to funnel his supercarambitions into a real-world automobile. The emblem, a colorful shield, is a riff on the Koenigsegg family coat of arms. From Prototype to Production: Von Koenigsegg himself sketched and modeled the cars he wanted to build. In 1996, two years after he launched the company, a working prototype with full interior was completed. In 2002, the Koenigsegg CC8S was crash-tested and European-legal, and serial production of the company's first model began. Numbers are still small, th...