2026 Kimera K39 Stradale - Images, Specifications and Information

Like all Kimera creations, the K-39 is built around the joy of driving.

The Kimera K-39 is powered by a bespoke Koenigsegg twin-turbo V8, developed specifically for the character and performance targets of the project.

Koenigsegg’s acceptance of the challenge itself testifies to how deeply the values of the two companies are aligned. Independence, engineering purity, passion, innovation and the desire to create automobiles that are both technically exceptional and emotionally unforgettable.

The K-39 engine produces 1,000 hp at 7,350 rpm and 1,200 Nm at 5,500 rpm, with a maximum engine speed of 8,250 rpm. Among many adjustments, the turbo system has been resized and lightened compared with higher-output Koenigsegg applications, optimising response and drivability for the K-39’s specific mission.

The engine is fully adapted to current emissions and OBD requirements, monitored through Koenigsegg Cloud, and over-the-air upgradeable when needed. It is also specifically calibrated to deliver full performance across all major markets, making the car usable all over the world.

For Koenigsegg, the collaboration reflects a broader strategic direction: to make selected technologies developed for its own hypercars available to exceptional external projects. With deep in-house expertise across combustion engines, electric motors, batteries, inverters, EE architecture, cloud connectivity, data logging and OTA software, Koenigsegg has built a full-spectrum automotive technology platform.

In the K-39, this platform finds a new expression: Italian emotion and motorsport culture, powered by Swedish innovation and engineering excellence.

The ability to stir emotion is therefore the result of noble, visionary choices, extreme and technologically advanced, with a tailored sensibility and an almost obsessive dedication to every detail.

The K-39 is an Italian hypercar in terms of design, character and culture, underpinned by one of the most advanced expressions of automotive research in the world.

Beyond the numerical figure that enriches the spec sheet, the K-39 expresses a balanced synthesis of power, lightness, aerodynamic efficiency and sensory engagement, in perfect continuity with the Kimera philosophy, which has always placed the highest value on the purity of the mechanical experience and the intensity of driving.

Beyond Koenigsegg, the K-39 gives Kimera the chance to rekindle a truly special legacy tie. Between Kimera and Dallara there has long existed a relationship of mutual esteem, friendship and technical exchange, one that developed organically, built on a shared passion for motorsport and for Italian engineering excellence. Within this relationship, there is also a historic fil rouge, a connecting thread of great significance: the one that links the Italian technical tradition of the most iconic endurance cars of the 1980s to the contemporary vision Kimera pursues today with the K-39. This is not a structured technical partnership in the conventional sense, but an authentic dialogue made of mutual respect, shared ideas and cultural affinity. A dynamic that further enriches the K-39 project through a profoundly Italian dimension, entirely coherent with its nature, its language and its spirit.

On the K-39, design and aerodynamics have been developed and validated to work in perfect coherence: two sides of the same coin. The family feeling with the EVO37 and EVO38 remains legible in the visual signature of the front and rear: it is the connecting thread of the racing cars of the 1980s, and the road cars descended from them, that allows a Kimera to be recognised at first glance.

The front end has been developed to manage airflow with a sophistication that also shapes the treatment of the headlight clusters, integrated into the overall aerodynamic profile, with solutions such as the S-duct that brings efficiency to the highest level found on today's leading motorsport racing cars.

The rear is conceived and executed as a technical sculpture: the rear screen, the extracting surfaces and the wing – a reference to the racing memory of the era – compose an ensemble in which function and beauty are indistinguishable.

But it is the side profile that defines the K-39's identity in the most unmistakable way. A long, taut silhouette, alien to any contemporary standard: aggressive in substance, elegant in form. Proportions that resemble nothing currently produced in the automotive world and that, taken together, give life to something unique, instantly recognisable and completely its own.

Despite working deeply and extensively on aerodynamics, the K-39 retains an exceptionally strong, decisive and immediately distinctive character.

For Kimera and the K-39, motorsport is far more than an evocative dimension. The brand had already announced its intention to take on Pikes Peak. Now that trajectory enters a definite phase, and the brand's sporting programme is focused on making participation in the legendary Race to the Clouds a reality.

The goal is to arrive at that challenge with a highly advanced car, powered by a proudly internal combustion engine, in defence of a vision of the automobile that believes in the refined and sustainable evolution of combustion technology. In this respect too, Koenigsegg is the most natural partner for Kimera: not an ideological stance, but a pragmatic technical collaboration that seeks to demonstrate excellence rather than debate it.

In keeping with Kimera tradition, the K-39 will be produced in limited series, with more than twenty cars already allocated before its first public appearance on the shores of Lake Como: a figure that reflects the extraordinary level of interest the project has already generated.

Within the K-39 programme, a special Pikes Peak configuration is planned, reserved for an extremely limited selection of cars, allocated specifically to the first ten clients who believed in the project from the very beginning. These special cars fuse road, track and mountain in radical harmony. The specification includes a dedicated aerodynamic package, applicable appendages and specific solutions that allow, through targeted and rapid adjustments, a use oriented to the track and track days, while preserving the car's full road-legal versatility.
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