The story of the SEIZED Chinese Koenigseggs!

@EdBolian shares the story of a Koenigsegg Agera RS and a Regera that were seized by the Chinese Government. Huge thanks to Mika from Koenigsegg Jesko Registry for help with the intel on these cars.


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[debugin]

Australia still has a luxury car tax to protect the local car industry… but we don’t have a local car industry

[gary_michael_flanagan_wildlife]

Never underestimate the potential of a terrible picture when buying a car. That’s how I found my near mint condition 66 mustang!! The worse picture the better. The one that looks like it was taken by a Nokia flip phone, underwater. It could be just some old dude that wants to get rid of it lol

[GhostSquadron]

Our pleasure to work on the history of these two cars, probably the most challenging undertaking so far… :) Cheers!

[koenigseggjeskoregistry]

Fantastic video, Ed! We’re thrilled you took interest in this story and that we were able to help by sharing all of our knowledge. There are a lot of wild, VINwiki-worthy, Koenigsegg stories out there, but this is certainly one of the best! We’ll be watching the auctions on August 18th/19th closely. With the Agera RS starting bidding at $2.2 million and the Regera starting at $2.53 million, let’s see what kind of price each car fetches and what the next chapter entails for each car!

[forzer]

Thank you for saying it’s relatively cheap to own a car in the US than other countries. I see Americans complain about vehicle prices and gas cost when outside America price are way worse. Most markets cater to America and you guys have a great selection of new and used cars unlike some other countries.

[the_ran_dumb_car_guy]

My wife is Native American and we don’t have to pay sales taxes on vehicles delivered to us on her reservation.. all my cars are in her name for that reason.. lucky for me this is a community property state…

[getchasome]

I love listening to your stories, ed. You're so articulate and specific, it's like I'm there.

[EagleScoutmano]

Koenigseggs definitely are eligible for show and display registration- one of the main qualifying elements is being able to demonstrate the significance/importance of the vehicle type in question, and being one of the car manufacturers that completed back and forth for world record fastest production car is certainly enough to qualify for significance.

[daniesalex]

The amount of research that goes behind these videos and the registry for these cars must be insane

[brewcityb]

The absolute insanity is 9 out of 10 times these cars will just sit and never really be driven.

[stevenzhou]

Update: The Agrea R acution was stop mid actution and no one got the car for some reason. However for the Regera my friend's bussiness partner was able to win the acution and made the payment for the car, but the acution company refused to sell the car to him even after the payment was received and claimed that there was hacker attacking their server when the acution was happening. It is most likely that the acution was rigged and the car was already sold to some insider with realtionship to the auction company.

[commonsense]

In Denmark.
The registration tax is 180% of the car’s value.
If it has more safety features it goes down pr. Safety feature. So you get a tiny deduction on the car. On top of that you still have to pay the standard 25% sales tax that are levied on all sales.

A Audi A6 Avant 40TDI 2022 in the US starts at $55.900

The same car in Denmark starts at $96.500

[LensFury]

In my country Malaysia, owning a Ford Mustang ecoboost in considered Rich, lucky america car tax are so low, a brand new from mustang in Malaysia cost USD120k, can u imagine that an Aventador or any italian supercar cost the same as a hypercar in the US and we have plenty of them, if car tax were same as US, cant imagine the hypercar scene in Malaysia

[jordythebassist]

Ed is spot on about auto ownership being cheaper over there. Getting a Challenger Hellcat in Australia costs about $150k USD before you even get into the thing to drive it for the first time

[Cilindri]

If I had 2.5 mil I’d buy more than one car. Even with the love I’ve had for koenigsegg

[birdflipper]

Somebody just dropped $7.25 million on a Honus Wagner baseball card, so I guess $2 million for a Koenigsegg is reasonable.

[andrewb]

It’s not unheard of to see an exotic car with dealer registration here in Australia. The lengths enthusiasts will go to!

[stevenxu]

What I am concerned about this is how their life will be after the auction. Cause the agera R+ that you mentioned is an absolute tragic. The R+ is a truly stunning car owned by a dj here in China (and he is a person who truly love cars), in 2020, it had a slight oil leak issue when attending a track day, but nothing too crazy. As a Chinese, I can tell you that those so call ‘enthusiasts’ started posting all sorts of different comments over the internet that really damaged the reputation of the car. It later went through the hands of a few owners that just didn’t care about it and kept using it as a tool to create content on douyin. It wasn’t until late 2021 that someone bought the car and then it never reappears on the internet again. It’s just heartbreaking for us to see how those people were treating the cars here, and I truly hope that these two can fall into hands of people who truly love cars like Ed.

[gavinbsvt]

No, Ed. I won’t be able to afford my dream car one day because someone decided to curate their history and make the prices quadruple…

[انا_ابراهيم_البناوي]

In Saudi Arabia owning a car is really cheap gas here is way cheaper than the US and insurance is also way cheaper