Koenigsegg Automotive AB has recalled seven 2025 and 2026 CC850 hypercars in the United States because the electronic parking brake may not engage properly when the car is in reverse. The filing was received by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration on Oct. 21, 2026, and carries campaign number 26V694. The count is tiny, but the seven cars sit inside a production run the company has limited to 70.
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Owners are due notification letters around Oct. 29, and the repair is a software update that Koenigsegg will deliver free of charge, either over the air or at a dealer. The company has listed a customer service line, 703-712-8324, for owners with questions. The recall is a software correction, not a parts swap, which shapes how quickly the seven cars can be put right.
The reverse-gear fault in the recall record
The NHTSA campaign record for 26V694 describes the defect in two short sentences. Koenigsegg is recalling certain 2025-2026 CC850 vehicles, and the electronic parking brake “may not engage properly when the vehicle is in reverse,” allowing unintended vehicle movement. The same record files the problem under the parking brake’s electrical control module software, a category that points at the logic deciding when the brake clamps rather than at worn pads or a broken cable.
The consequence line is equally spare: unintended vehicle movement increases the risk of a crash or injury. The record counts seven vehicles as potentially affected, a population rather than a tally of cars that have misbehaved. It lists model year 2025 and model year 2026 cars as two separate entries, and it does not say how many of the seven belong to each year. Both entries are otherwise identical: the same campaign number, the same defect description and the same remedy text.
The record available to the public describes no crash, injury or owner complaint. It also marks both the park-it and park-outside advisory fields false, so the campaign carries no instruction to stop driving or to leave the car outdoors while waiting for the repair.
How an electronic parking brake decides when to hold
A conventional handbrake is a cable and a lever. An electric parking brake replaces the lever with a button, applies the rear brake pads with an electric actuator, and leaves the decision-making to a control unit. That unit can run as a stand-alone computer or sit inside the stability-control module, and it performs tasks a driver never sees, such as releasing automatically when the accelerator is pressed and clamping harder if it senses motion.
Because so much of that behavior lives in code, a gap in one gear state can be corrected without touching hardware. That is the remedy Koenigsegg chose: the parking brake control software will be updated, with no part replacement and no charge to the owner. The record says the update can arrive over the air or through a dealer, so a car with a data connection may need no workshop visit at all.
Letters are expected to be mailed on Oct. 29, eight days after the report was received on Oct. 21. Owners who want to confirm status can enter a vehicle identification number into NHTSA’s recall lookup, which lists unrepaired safety recalls for a specific car. The portal also allows a search by NHTSA campaign number, offers recall alerts through the SaferCar app or email, and carries a form for filing a safety complaint. It has limits: the lookup does not show repaired recalls, and it omits recalls from many small manufacturers, so a clean result from a low-volume builder is not the last word.
Seven cars from a deliberately tiny production run
The CC850 was unveiled on Aug. 19, 2022, at Pebble Beach, California. According to the reference entry on the model, the production limit began at 50 units and was later raised by 20, for 70 in total, so the seven recalled cars amount to one-tenth of the entire run. The model is built around a 5.0-liter twin-turbocharged V8 borrowed from the Jesko and rated at 1,185 horsepower on gasoline and 1,385 horsepower on E85, with peak torque of 1,385 newton-meters.
Its most unusual feature is the transmission. A nine-speed multi-clutch gearbox is paired with what Koenigsegg calls the Engage Shifter System, which lets the driver work a physical clutch pedal and simulate six manual gears instead of reaching for paddles. The car is billed as a homage to the CC8S, built to mark the 20th anniversary of that earlier model, though it shares no components with it. The reference entry says production runs from 2024 to the present, which means the recalled 2025 and 2026 cars are among the first built.
NHTSA’s vehicle page for the 2026 CC850 lists campaign 26V694, so a buyer or reseller checking a car’s history will find the recall attached to the model. For the seven affected owners the practical sequence is short: wait for the letter on or after Oct. 29, accept the software update, and confirm through the recall lookup that the campaign shows as completed.
This article was produced with the assistance of AI and reviewed by Morning Overview editors prior to publication.
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