Kimera’s New Supercar Makes Its First Run At Goodwood With A Koenigsegg V8
Five years after the EVO37 put Kimera Automobili on the map at Goodwood, the Italian boutique brand has returned to the Sussex hills with something entirely new. At the Goodwood Festival of Speed, Kimera unveiled the dynamic debut of the K39 — its first car conceived entirely from scratch, not as a reinterpretation of a motorsport legend but as a ground-up original supercar. Prototype 01 ran the celebrated Hill Climb, giving the public its first look at the K39 in motion.
The K39 is built around a carbon-fibre monocoque, composite bodywork blending carbon fibre and carbon Kevlar, and a twin-turbo V8 supplied by Koenigsegg — now tuned to a configuration closely representative of what customer cars will receive. Production is planned for early 2027, and the car has a clear competitive target: the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb. Goodwood isn’t just a launch event. For Kimera, it’s proof of concept.
From Heritage Reinterpretation To An Original Design Vision
Kimera built its reputation on a single, audacious premise: take the spirit of the Lancia Delta rally era and rebuild it through modern engineering. The EVO37 — named for the 37 units produced — revived the rear-wheel-drive soul of the original Delta in a contemporary, hand-crafted package. The EVO38 followed as the all-wheel-drive evolution, an integrale in the truest Italian sense, imagining where that rally bloodline might have gone had development continued.
The K39 is a different proposition entirely. It shares the same founding philosophy — Italian craftsmanship, motorsport culture, uncompromising technical research — but carries none of the Delta’s DNA in its brief. This is Kimera writing its own story rather than continuing someone else’s. The shift matters. It positions the brand alongside the likes of Pagani and Dallara as Italian specialists capable of originating a supercar concept, not just reinterpreting one.
What The K39 Prototype Actually Is
The car that ran Goodwood’s Hill Climb today is Prototype 01 — the first fully functioning unit of the K39, assembled after months of intensive development work at Kimera’s facility. The team completed the car’s first carbon-fibre monocoque, onto which CNC-machined mechanical components and composite body panels were assembled. The construction philosophy prioritises lightness, structural rigidity, and efficiency: the same principles that have underpinned every Kimera build since 2021.
At the heart of the K39 sits the Koenigsegg-supplied twin-turbo V8. Kimera says the engine has now been integrated and fine-tuned to a specification closely representative of what customer cars will receive — meaning today’s Hill Climb run wasn’t a mule or a rolling show car, but a genuine preview of the production machine. The collaboration with Koenigsegg also extended beyond the engine bay: engineers from the Swedish hypercar maker travelled with the Kimera technical team to Colorado for initial reconnaissance runs on the Pikes Peak course ahead of the car’s eventual competition program.
EVO37 Completes Its Run, EVO38 Martini Collection Makes Its Dynamic Debut
Goodwood 2026 carries additional significance beyond the K39. During the Festival, Kimera is delivering the final two units of the EVO37, completing the planned 37-car production run. Among the cars delivered is the EVO37 Top Gear Edition — built to celebrate the publication’s 2026 Performance Car of the Year award — handed over to Max Girardo, Kimera’s UK representative and a longtime friend of the brand.
Also making its dynamic Hill Climb debut is the EVO38 Collezione Martini. First shown in Costa Smeralda in late April, the Martini Collection variant now runs in public for the first time, previewing the technical and visual evolution that will accompany the start of customer deliveries. The EVO38 program continues in parallel with K39 development, and Kimera has confirmed that a further exclusive EVO37 interpretation will be unveiled later this year — another chapter for the car that started everything.
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