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Top Gear tries Kimera's Koenigsegg-powered leap beyond the restomod

Jack Rix drives the K39 prototype, where rally-inspired styling meets a carbon chassis, a manual gearbox and some unfinished business.

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0:46The K39 moves Kimera beyond restomods: it is a new car built from the ground up.
2:15Its mechanical package combines a twin-turbo Koenigsegg V8, a manual gearbox and a carbon tub.
2:56The stripped prototype cabin does not represent the production interior.
6:40Rix begins acceleration runs, later explaining that the turbos are operating at very low boost.
10:35Founder Luca Betti drives faster laps before discussing chassis rigidity and the balance between track pace and road feel.

The cockpit is stripped bare, and Jack Rix is quick to explain that it won't look like this when customers get their cars. Top Gear's drive of the yellow Kimera K39 is an encounter with a work in progress, not a polished showroom arrival.

That distinction matters beyond the missing trim. Kimera built its identity around Lancia-inspired restomods, but the K39 is a new car from the ground up. Beneath the familiar-looking bodywork sit a bespoke carbonfibre chassis and a twin-turbo Koenigsegg V8, paired with a manual gearbox.

The headline promise is 1,000 horsepower. The drive comes with a qualification: Rix says the prototype's turbos are running very little boost. This is a first taste of the car's behaviour, rather than a demonstration of its finished performance.

Even so, his runway assessment is blunt: "It is loud. It is noisy. It is vicious."

The film also puts the K39 alongside Kimera's four-wheel-drive Evo 38 Martini edition, making the company's change of direction visible. Viewers are picking out the eighties styling references, particularly the resemblance to the Lancia 037 and Ferrari F40, while the white Martini-liveried car gets its own attention.

Kimera founder and former rally driver Luca Betti then takes the wheel, with Rix riding alongside him. Their discussion turns to chassis rigidity and balancing track pace with road feel. Rix's final production request is rather less exotic: air conditioning.

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The most 80s car money can buy
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This beauty looks like a lovechild of a original 037 and the simply iconic Ferrari F40 😍❤
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That white Martini one may be one of the most beautiful things Ive ever seen
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11:50 Seems like he was hoping for some pace notes.
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When they are pushing it around the track, it sounds so much like the old F40 LM.
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