Wild Jesko Absolut shaves a second off Regera benchmark and outsprints a Bugatti Tourbillon to 250mph
Koenigsegg has forged quite a reputation for outrageous straight-line speed. As companies like Porsche and AMG chase ever quicker lap times, so Koenigsegg makes V8 hypercars accelerate faster and faster. Not content with the Regera having completed a 0-400-0kph dashis the important number, as that’s the Racelogic-verified time for the Koenigsegg to have accelerated from stationary to 400 clicks and brake back to a stop again. The previous best recorded for a Regera was 28.81 seconds.
As might be expected given that formidable time, the Absolut broke a few other records on this incredible run. Koenigsegg reckons no other homologated production car has accelerated so fast: it reached 400kph in 18.82 seconds, 250mph in 19.2 seconds and did nought to two fifty and back again in 28.27 seconds. For some idea of how ludicrously fast that makes the Jesko,is said by its maker to take 25 seconds to reach 248mph. So there’s bonkers fast, and then there’s a Jesko Absolut.
It could go even faster, too. Christian von Koenigsegg said of the Jesko run: “This record run validated the accuracy of the simulated and calculated performance of the Jesko Absolut, which gives us great confidence in its ability to outright be the fastest, fully homologated production car in the world. Now it is all down to tire testing, development, and approval, before we finally can make an attempt at that record.” Plus he’s hinting at laptimes with the bewinged Jesko Attack derivative.
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