Watch How Koenigsegg Can Smash Cars without Breaking Bank

Big automakers can crash-test hundreds of vehicles a year to make sure that you're as safe as can be inside. But did you ever wonder how boutique automakers like Koenigsegg, whose yearly production could fit in the parking lot of your local Tim Hortons (and not the big Tims, the smaller one) manage to fit the same number of mandatory crashes in without sacrificing months of production and millions of dollars? This is how.

Koenigsegg let Apex.one into their engineering spaces to find out just how they do it.

It helps that modern hypercars, like the Regera, use a carbon-fibre monocoque chassis. It's extremely strong. So strong, in fact, that it can survive multiple crash tests.

That's right. In most official crash testing, the forces remain low enough that the main car can be reused. Instead of building a new car for every single test, Koenigsegg can simply swap out the bumpers and the other crash structures that lurk underneath.

“It’s cheaper to rebuild and repair and keep smashing the same car,” explains company founder Christian von Koenigsegg. “That’s of course in a way more difficult because it needs to take multiple hits, but we designed for that and it saves us both time and money and resources.”

Von Koenigsegg points out that to meet various airbag standards around the world, the car has to be hit "from every conceivable angle." Giving them the computer data they need to make sure that everything happens as it should in a crash.

So the stronger they make the car, the fewer they use up in testing. Which means the car is more likely to be (and more easily) repaired after a real-world collision. Because it's designed to be. Though that doesn't mean that the car will be right as rain after any crash.

Watch the video and cringe as million dollar hypercars are jumped over speed bumps and slammed into barriers. But hopefully they'll be ok.