Small Town Cancer Patient Wins 245 MPH Swedish Supercar

Stunning supercar profile, 806-horsepower mid-ship V8, ultra-light 2691-pound curb weight, zero to 60 mph in 3.5 seconds,

zero to 100 in 7.7 seconds, quarter mile  in 11 seconds, and a top speed of 245 mph... wouldn't you just want to drive a Koenigsegg CCX for a few hours, let alone a lifetime?

It's understandable that Louie Edgi, who won the $1 million-plus supercar in the Alberta Cash and Cars Lottery that supports the Alberta Cancer Foundation and the Canadian Cancer Society, had other things on his mind than playing with cars. The Norman Wells, Alberta, Canada resident, is fighting a brain tumor and therefore more focused on his treatment than risking life and limb in a car hardly meant for subzero temperatures and roads best traveled by skidoos and four-wheel drive pickup trucks.

"The car is a Swedish make; it'll do 400 kilometers an hour,” commented Edgi to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) News. “I don't see anybody would need that.”

Obviously a

practical man, Edgi will be able to purchase a great many fully loaded Silverados, F-150s or Rams now, however, because he chose the smart route and took the cash instead of the car (sorry Koenigsegg, but cash is king).

"It's worth a million dollars, so they gave me the option of taking the car or the cash,” added Edgi. “But living here in Norman Wells, I can't really see myself needing a car.”

Norman Wells is a town of less than a thousand people and only a single unpaved road that stretches a mere 7.5 miles, situated almost 430 miles northwest of Yellowknife on the Mackenzie River in the Northwest Territories.

If Edgi had chosen the car over the money he would have had to fly it in by cargo plane or drive it to Norman on a winter ice road; there are no roads to his town in the summer.

Edgi

bought the winning ticket in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada where he was undergoing his cancer treatment. Whether it's the comfort brought from his financial windfall or his treatment, he and his family are feeling a lot better.

“The wife is all excited and the kids are excited, but I don't think they really grasp what a million dollars is,” Edgi told the CBC. “They'll get it eventually.”

Edgi added that he is relieved to win the cash, because even if his cancer treatment doesn't go well, his family will be taken care of financially.

Edgi is hardly alone, especially in today's economic climate, as whether from a small town or a major metropolitan area most people would opt for the money and leave the car in Sweden.