KIMERA RETURNS TO WHERE IT ALL BEGAN

The brand unveils the first dynamic prototype of the K39 and celebrates the EVO37, while the
EVO38 Martini Collection makes its dynamic debut on the Hill Climb

There are places that, over time, cease to be simple events and become part of a brand’s very history. For Kimera Automobili, the Goodwood Festival of Speed is one of them.

It was on these very hills of the Sussex countryside, in the summer of 2021, that Kimera first introduced itself to the international public with the EVO37, the starting point of a project that, within just a few years, would carve out its own identity on the global automotive stage. Five years on, the return to Goodwood carries a particular significance: on one hand, it celebrates the car that gave life to the brand; on the other, it brings Kimera’s future into public view for the first time, through the dynamic debut of the K39.

Unveiled last May at the Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este, where it received the award for Best Design Concept & Prototype, the K39 now enters the most decisive phase of its development: the transition from concept to a fully functioning car, ready to take on the challenges for which it was conceived.

In recent months, the Kimera team has completed the K39’s first carbon-fibre monocoque. Onto this structure, the main mechanical components – machined with computer numerical control (CNC) technology to ensure maximum dimensional precision – have been assembled alongside bodywork panels crafted from composite materials, combining carbon fibre and carbon kevlar. Aconstruction philosophy built around maximum lightness, structural rigidity and efficiency, in line with the same principles that have guided every Kimera project since the brand’s founding. At the same time, the car’s first dynamic development phase has been completed through the integration and fine-tuning of the twin-turbo V8 engine supplied by Koenigsegg, reaching a configuration now
closely representative of the specification intended for customer cars.

Goodwood therefore marks the debut of the K39 “prototype 01”: the first running unit of the car, set to take on the Festival of Speed’s celebrated Hill Climb. It will be the first public opportunity to witness the project’s dynamic behaviour and technical character, ahead of the start of production planned for early next year. This dynamic debut also represents the first concrete step of the K39’s motorsport programme. Following Villa d’Este, Luca Betti and the Kimera technical team travelled to Colorado together with Koenigsegg’s engineers for initial reconnaissance runs on the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb track, one of motorsport’s most iconic events, and the challenge for which the project is ultimately destined.