Every Koenigsegg VIN we could find starts with YT9 and carries 007 in positions 12-14, and NHTSA's vPIC decodes the newer U.S. cars better than you might expect: real VINs for a 2020 and a 2021 Regera, a 2015 Agera and a 2025 Jesko all came back clean on October 14, 2026, with the plant listed as Angelholm, Sweden. The 2013-2014 Agera R and Agera S VINs we tried only decoded partially. So the decoder can confirm the maker, year and plant on most cars, and after that you are working from paperwork, because the recall and title record on a car this rare is thin.
We pulled the sample VINs from a public owner registry and ran each one through NHTSA's free vPIC decoder. We did not invent or tweak any of them. If the 17-character layout is new to you, read how to decode a VIN first; the two hypercar decoders we already published, Bugatti and McLaren, are useful comparisons because one is a small-maker code like this and one is not.
What YT9 and 007 mean
The 9 in position 3 is the giveaway. Under 49 CFR 565.15, a 9 there always means the maker has a six-character identifier, and a low-volume manufacturer is identified by positions 1-3 together with positions 12-14. vPIC's manufacturer list shows Koenigsegg Automotive AB with exactly one identifier, YT9007, registered for passenger cars. That leaves only positions 15-17 for the build number, and in the VINs we found those three digits run in a single sequence across models: 100s on the 2013-2015 Agera cars, 230s on the 2020-2021 Regeras, 260 on the 2025 Jesko.
Positions 4-8 changed by model in our samples. The two Regeras started YT9NN1, the Jesko YT9PR2, the clean 2015 Agera YT9MM1, the Agera R cars YT9JJ, and the 2013 Agera S YT9KH. We are not going to assign a meaning to each letter, since Koenigsegg's own breakdown is not something we could pull up and verify. Position 10 read L for 2020, M for 2021, S for 2025, D for 2013, E for 2014 and F for 2015, and position 11 was A on every car, matching the Angelholm plant field.
Clean, partial and the odd error
The 2021 Regera decoded with a 5.0-liter V8 listed as "Regera V8 Hybrid," rear-wheel drive and a hybrid electrification flag, and the 2025 Jesko came back as a 5.0-liter V8 with no errors. That lines up with Car and Driver's Regera page, which describes a twin-turbo 5.0-liter V8 working with three electric motors and no conventional transmission. The Agera R and Agera S VINs were different: vPIC returned errors 4 and 14, filled in the year, the plant and the engine name, and left the model blank. That is a partial decode. It is not evidence of a fake car, but it means a decode alone will not tell you an Agera R from something else.
One more quirk worth knowing. When we typed only the first few characters, vPIC came back with error 7, saying the maker is not registered for sale in the U.S., while every full 17-character VIN decoded to Koenigsegg Automotive AB without that warning. If a seller shows you that error on a screenshot, ask for the full VIN and run it yourself.
Recalls: one on record
The NHTSA recall file has very little here. The only Koenigsegg campaign we found was 14V-437, covering a single 2013 Agera built in December 2012 whose tire pressure warning light might not come on after a restart, a failure to meet FMVSS 138. The fix was a software update installed by a dealer. Our searches on Regera, Jesko, One:1 and CC850 returned nothing, and a blank result on a car built in such small numbers tells you very little. Check the actual VIN with our NHTSA recall check by VIN walkthrough and get the factory's service campaign list from the dealer too.
Why the history file runs thin
Volume is the problem. Car and Driver says only 125 Jeskos are slated for production and puts the price at roughly $3 million, and its Regera page says only 80 will be made. Cars like that tend to rack up few miles, sit in collections and cross borders between owners. U.S. Customs says vehicles less than 25 years old generally have to comply with federal safety standards to be imported permanently, and the importer files form HS-7 declaring that. So on any Koenigsegg that started life outside the U.S., ask for the import entry and the HS-7, and read our notes on grey-market European import titles.
CARFAX describes its reports as drawing on title, odometer, ownership and accident records, and on a hypercar the report may have only a few lines. That is still worth having, since one auction or salvage entry is the kind of line that matters. A seller PDF with no VIN printed on it proves nothing. As of mid October 2026, a CARFAX report through us is about $5.50 as a guest or about $4.50 as a member, and a CARFAX plus AutoCheck bundle is about $6.75, against roughly $39.99 to $44.99 at retail; confirm at checkout. We are a licensed CARFAX and AutoCheck reseller and are not affiliated with CARFAX, AutoCheck, or Experian. After that, the factory build records and a specialist inspection carry most of the weight.
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