When you buy an ultra-limited hypercar, you enjoy a closer relationship with its automaker than you would on a more run-of-the-mill car. Koenigsegg likes to keep close ties with its customers. How close? Well, company founder Christian von Koenigsegg can track all the GPS-equipped cars the automaker has built with an app on his phone. It's a lot less weird than it seems, though.
Koenigsegg showed a reporter with Car Buzz the app at the Geneva Motor Show, confirming its existence. The app allows the company boss to have better communication with his customers in developing hardware and software upgrades, troubleshooting problems, and creating a better ownership experience in general.
"It's technically possible to place a camera inside the vehicles and I could see the drivers, but that'd be creepy," Koenigsegg told Car Buzz. Creepy indeed.
One has to wonder, though, if it's theoretically possible for Koenigsegg to be subpoenaed by a court to release this GPS data. A highly unlikely scenario, but in the abundance of caution, don't use your Koenigsegg as an escape vehicle for a bank robbery.
A car enthusiast since childhood, Chris Perkins served as Road & Track's engineering nerd and Porsche apologist.
