Koenigsegg Smashes Records

Koenigsegg claims six records

Koenigsegg claims that it has broken six world production car records with its Agera R – take a look at these insane times!

Some cars out there are really, really fast. Then you get cars that are just stupidly fast, and the Koenigsegg Agera R just happens to fall in the latter category. Last week Koenigsegg claimed that it broke six production car records with its Agera R at its proving ground in Angelholm, Sweden.

The test data was collected by a third party and has been submitted to the Guiness Book of World Records for confirmation.

For comparative purposes, the Bugatti Veyron Supersport, which is the current fastest car in the world, gets from 0-320km/h in 22.2 seconds. The Agera R does it nearly five seconds faster. The weather was fine on the day the run occurred, with a bit of cloud cover, but Koenigsegg said that there was no wind to affect the results.

Here’s the list of records Koenigsegg claims the Agera R smashed:

0-300km/h: 14.53 seconds
0-320km/h: 17.68 seconds
300-0km/h: 6.66 seconds
320-0km/h: 7.28 seconds
0-300-0km/h: 21.19 seconds
0-320-0km/h: 24.96 seconds

More Here: Topspeed

Let’s say it together:

Ko-nig-seg…

Koenigsegg!!!

Welcome to one of my all time favorites. I adore this car company.
It’s a Swedish blend of über high tech design and materials and raw, unfiltered performance. What’s not to love?

Koenigsegg was founded in 1994, and since then has continuted to build on the original designs. The first production car, the CC was prototyped in 1996, and released in 2000. It was followed by the:

CC8S – 655hp – Ford Twin supercharged V8

CCR – 850+ HP – Ford Twin supercharged V8- Only 20 produced.

CCX – 806hp – Koenigsegg designed engine. Intended for the US market- runs on 91 Octane pump gas, and meets CA emissions standards. (Edition model also available)

CCGT – One-off track only car.

CCXR – 1,018 hp on bio-fuels. Essentially a tweaked CCX. (Edition model also available)

Trevite – (Three whites) CCXR based limited edition – diamond coated skin.

And come 2011, the Agera: Same proprietary engine design, bumped to 5.0 liters, and Twin turbocharged. 910 hp, Variable vane turbochargers.

Perhaps they ran out of CC(insert something here)’s. (more…)

Lambo and Koenigsegg Get the Boot

Well, actually they got the clamp.
It seems a few wealthy Arabs shipped the cars over to the U.K. to play with while spending the summer in London. Apparently the city thought otherwise about the bright (and slightly ugly colored) blue Supercar parking arrangements. Whoops.

The Lamborghini LP 670-4 SV and the Koenigsegg CCXR deserve better treatment (and better colors) than that. Perhaps some cones and a barricade would have been more appropriate. Just saying….

From: GTSpirit.com