World's fastest car at JIMS

The R30-million Koenigsegg CCXR Ultimate Limited Edition is one of literally a handful in the world and will leave the country immediately after JIMS, so visitors shouldn't miss the once-off opportunity to visit Hall Six to see this motoring masterpiece.

It is an astonishing two metres wide and despite an overall height of just 1,1 metres it won't be easy to miss: there is simply nothing else on four wheels that looks like it.

Thanks to 758kW and 1080Nm it will rocket to 100km/h in 2,9 seconds and will only stop accelerating nearly 330km/h later. No other supercar has a better power to weight ratio.

Its race car-like aerodynamics help it to generate about 1,5 times the force of gravity when cornering - few production cars can generate more than one ‘G'.

Remarkably, it is designed to run on biofuels such as E85, a petrol/ethanol mix which thanks to its high octane and internal cooling capability enables the 4.8-litre twin-supercharged engine to make the phenomenal power and torque figures quoted here.

The company was founded by Swedish entrepreneur Christian von Koenigsegg in the early 1990s and rapidly rose to prominence as a maker of bespoke sports cars. Appropriately, the current factory is a fighter jet facility previously owned by the Swedish air force, so the 1,7 kilometre runway is regularly put to good use.

The Daytona Group, South African importers of Koenigsegg, have sold two CCX Limited Edition cars locally, which at roughly half the price of the CCXR Ultimate look like something of a bargain.