The Koenig video has been probably the most requested video after the story of Alpina,
which buy the way I have started working on and the video would come soon.
From all the tuners of the 80s Koenig is probably the most unique and memorable one.
With combining power with some of the craziest body kits the world have ever seen from established
tuners, Koenig has brought to us some of the greatest tuned cars out there.
Originally would make one video but since the Ferrari's make half of the Koenig portfolio
I would talk about them first and the next week I am going to make a video about all
the other brands.
So guys welcome back to another Crazy Tuners video and here are the crazy creations of
Koenig-Specials.
Born in February 2 1938, Willy König made most of his money from publishing different
magazines, probably some car related magazines but not much is known about Willy's youth.
After he made some money, Willy started racing different cars all over Euro.
According to "racingsportscars.com" Willy had his first race in 1959 when he was only
21 years old with an Alfa Romeo Giulietta Spider.
He continued racing in the early 60s with an Auto Union 1000 and Abarth 700.
In 1962, he started racing with a Ferrari 250 GT, when he became quite successful.
Thanks to this susses Enzo Ferrari invited him to an event in Maranello.
Willy continued racing with a number of different cars including here an Abarth 1000, Volvo
122, Ferrari 275 GTB, Ford GT40 and Lola T70.
He continued racing until 1969 when he left the racing world for the tuning one.
But he would return again this time with racing his own cars, like you are going to see later
on.
In 1974 König received the first 365 BB in Germany, but he wasn't very happy with the
car.
He didn't liked the difference between the racing and road cars.
So!
He went and applied all the racing modification to his own 365.
An open exhaust, multi-site clutch, larger breaks and wider tires.
König started showing his car in different Ferrari and car meetings when his ridiculous
365 got tons of attention.
Willy started getting requests for similar Ferrari's.
So!
In 1977, he founded Koenig Ferrari.
Willy used Koenig instead of König because of a Ferrari dealership which used the same
name, but also because was easier to pronounce the name Koenig.
He had to remove the Ferrari part of the name because Enzo Ferrari wasn't happy with that.
So the name was changed to Koenig Specials.
The first car offered by Willy was the Koenig Ferrari 512 BBi Twin Turbo.
Koenig offered three options for this car a 400hp and a 450hp.
But if you wanted more the Twin Turbo 512 was the answer for you.
Like the name suggest this 512 was equipped with a pair of turbos which increased the
power from 360hp to 650hp.
Thanks to this addition power the Twin Turbo could reach a top speed of 330kmh (206mph)
and could reach 100 in 4s.
Even today this speed is mind blowing let alone for 1981.
And of course the crazy ultra wide body kits were a part of the car.
Koenig is considered the tuner that started the wide body kt trend but… is hard to say
that since most of the tuners came around this time.
Originally the Koenig boy kits were designed by Vittorio Strosek which later on would leave
Koenig to create his own tuning shop, when he would build body kits for Porsche's.
Any way the 512 was equipped with a new front and rear bumper, wider wheel arches, a giant
rear spoiler and much wider tires.
Also the twin turbo version came with additional air intakes for the turbos.
The interior wasn't that special for 80s tuner standard.
Yeah of course that was re leathered but nothing crazy like TV and things like that, like Gemballa
for example.
The base price for this conversion was 130,000 DM but the price increased with additional
options.
In 1983 came the Koenig 308 WideBody Turbo.
This car wasn't as popular as the other cars, so sorry guys but I don't have much information
about it.
The 308 was followed buy the 328.
But like with the 308 I couldn't find much information about this car.
Some sources say that also some F40 were built.
But …. I highly doubt that because zero information exist we have no pictures at all
plus the most important thing the F40 was already a twin turbo.
The Testarossa is the definitive car of the 80s.
Mainly because of Miami Vice and the popularity of the car among drug dealers.
But the redhead wasn't a very popular car among tuners beside the convertible conversion
not many tuned Testarossas were built.
But the Konig Testarossa is enough.
The first Koenig Tesatrossa was presented in 1985 under the name Koenig Twin Turbo which
was of course was packed with a pair of turbos, which increased the power from 390hp to 710hp.
Thanks to this crazy power the Twin-Turbo had a top speed of 330kmh and could accelerate
from 0 to 100 in 3.9s.
The twin Turbo was followed by the Twin Turbo Evolution which had 1000hp.
This beast of a car had a top speed of 370kmh, could reach 100 in 3,5s and 200 in 10s.
After the Evolution came the Competition and after that the Competition Evolution.
Koenig also built a 512TR and 512M version but this cars had less powered.
The Koenig Testarossa came with different body kits and is almost impossible to find
two cars that look the same.
Some had normal Testarossa bodies, some were convertibles, some had side stripes but most
of them didn't and of course the ones that looked like F40s, but on this direction Lotec
did a much better job with the Lotec TT1000 but that's a story for another time.
The Koenig Competition costed all most $600,000 back then which is the equivalent to $1,092,382
with today money.
Differently from the other tuners Koenig made it in to the 90s.
And the Koenig F48 was one of their first creations for the new decade.
The F48 was a 540hp monster based on a 348.
The body kit continued the to mimc the F40 body but this time in a much better way.
Probably because of the pop up headlights which are way more similar to the F40 pop
up headlights compared to the Testarossa.
The F40 body style continued with the Koenig F355.
The Twin Turbo 3.5L V8 this time produced 600hp.
The F50 is one of my favorite cars of all time.
But the Koenig version is just something from another world.
The Koenig F50 had received some cosmetic changes like some new carbon fiber parts but
nothing crazy.
In fact, you can barely notice them.
Nut the best way to tell if a F50 is a Koenig Special is by the new rear air intakes for
turbos.
Like all the Koenig's the F50 also was a Twin turbo.
Now with 250hp more compared to the normal F50.
The Koenig version could reach a top speed of 370kmh (231mph) and could hit 100 in 3S.
Judging by the pictures probably two Koenig's were built but Im not sure about thet.
After that came the Koenig 550 Maranello.
Beside the wide wheels and the crazy spoiler the car had received, like the name on the
rear suggest a set of turbos which helped the 5.5L V12 to produce 790hp.
2 years later came Koenig 360 Modena.
And how this car could have been any different.
The Koenig 360 also was a twin turbo with 200hp more compared to the regular 360.
Judging from their website Koenig is still around but now makes exhaust systems sells
different parts.
Koenig Ferrari's are not extremely rare, I'm not saying that they are popular but they
are not hard to find.
They tempt to pop up for sale in Germany, Netherlands and UK.
But the best place to find and buy a Koenig Ferrari is Japan.
Like with the most of the rare European cars most of them have ended up in Japan.
And I think that this is good thing because Japanese People temp to keep this cars on
great conditions especially this types of cars that are collecting dust in the rest
of the world.
The price for a used Koenig Ferrari depends.
Some times they sell for more some times they sell for less but they tempt to sell something
around the price of a stock Ferrari.
This is something very common with 80s tuned cars and a good example for this are the two
Gemballa's that were sold at the last RM auction in London.
This cars only a small group of peoples really appreciates and I'm one of them.
If I would have the money I totally would have bought one.
So guys thank you for watching, see you next time when I'm going to talk about the Porsche's,
Mercedes, BMW's and Jaguars.
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