Koenigsegg

  • Koenigsegg Regera in bare carbon fiber - Image via Keno Zache Photography/Carage

    Koenigsegg is an expert when it comes to carbon fiber. After all, the small Swedish company was the first to offer carbon fiber wheels straight from the factory. Now it's ventured into a new realm concerning the light yet sturdy material: Koenigsegg Naked Carbon. Shown here on a Regera, Koenigsegg Naked Carbon, or KNC for short, is bare carbon without any lacquer or varnish. In fact, even the thin epoxy that normally coats autoclaved cured carbon fiber has been carefully removed by sanding and polishing. According to Koenigsegg, the process is extremely sensitive as one stroke too many will...

  • Christian von Koenigsegg with the Koenigsegg Agera RS and Regera at Jay Leno's Garage
    Christian von Koenigsegg brings the Regera to Jay Leno's Garage

    The Koenigsegg Regera is a high-tech piece of machinery, and there's probably no one on the planet better suited to explaining all of its gadgetry than the man who founded the company, Christian von Koenigsegg. He recently visited Jay Leno's Garage to talk about the Regera. Unveiled at the 2015...

  • Koenigsegg Agera FE Thor and Vader
    Spurred by Tesla, Koenigsegg aiming for 250 mph in 14 seconds

    Koenigsegg currently produces the world's fastest production car in the Agera RS, but the company isn't stopping there. Especially not after learning how quickly the 2020 Tesla Roadster will accelerate. Speaking to Top Gear in a Friday report, founder and namesake, Christian von Koenigsegg, told...

  • 2018 Spyker C8 Preliator Spyder, 2017 Geneva auto show
    Koenigsegg yet to deliver any engines to Spyker

    Dutch sports car marque Spyker announced in March 2017 that it will start using V-8 engines for its flagship C8 line sourced from Sweden's Koenigsegg, instead of the aging Audi units that have powered the C8 since the nameplate's launch in 2000. Unfortunately, there doesn't appear to have been any...

  • Koenigsegg Agera successor teaser
    Koenigsegg Agera successor reportedly named Ragnarok, will have 1,440 hp

    Koenigsegg may have a name for its Agera successor in "Ragnarok." According to a source close to the manufacturer told The Supercar Blog that the name should grace the car when it debuts at the 2019 Geneva motor show. And that the Koenigsegg Ragnarok may also have 1,440 horsepower. The power figure...

  • 2007 Koenigsegg CCGT race car prototype
    Koenigsegg might race in Le Mans' new Hypercar class

    Koenigsegg may be among the automakers fielding a car in the new Hypercar class set to be introduced in the 2020/2021 season of the World Endurance Championship, whose final round will be the 24 Hours of Le Mans. In an interview with Top Gear magazine published Wednesday, Koenigsegg CEO and founder...

  • Koenigsegg Agera FE Thor and Vader

    This marks the end of the Agera era for Koenigsegg. The Swedish automaker has built its final two Agera hypercars, and the pair have been dubbed Thor and Vader. For Koenigsegg, the Agera represents the longest model name in production since the company was founded back in 1994. While Koenigsegg continually refined its original CC model, the Agera is the car that took the company to new heights. No longer supercharging its engines, Koenigsegg switched to turbocharging and never looked back. Eventually we landed on a power output rated at 1,360 horsepower. That's better known as a megawatt, and...

  • Koenigsegg Agera successor teaser
    Koenigsegg shows off sketch of Agera RS successor

    All good things must come to an end, and the Koenigsegg Agera is now a supercar for the history books. But, the Swedish supercar maker obviously has a successor in the works. During the opening of Lorbek Luxury Cars in Melbourne, Australia, last Thursday, the brand showed off a sketch of its next...

  • Koenigsegg Agera RS “Gryphon” crash on May 17, 2018 - Image via Teknikens Värld
    Koenigsegg Agera RS “Gryphon” crashed...again

    On May 11, 2017, a Koenigsegg Agera RS commissioned by American collector Manny Khoshbin crashed at the hands of a Koenigsegg test driver during routine pre-delivery testing at a track in Trollhättan, Sweden. A year later, almost to the day, the same car has crashed again—on a stretch of...

  • Final Koenigsegg Agera RS during Vmax200 event in April, 2018
    Koenigsegg Agera RS hits 242 MPH in just 1.3 miles

    Koenigsegg's Agera RS is now out of production but the car is still obliterating records. On Saturday, the very last Agera RS ever built, a blue example owned by Neil Miller, hit 242 mph over a set distance of 1.3 miles at a Vmax200 event near Leicester in the United Kingdom. Vmax200 is similar to...

  • Koenigsegg Agera Final, 2016 Geneva Motor Show
    Koenigsegg building its final Ageras

    Koenigsegg on Wednesday announced that it is in the process of building its last two Agera hypercars, after which the company's sole product will be the Regera hybrid. The last Ageras are the two remaining examples of the three-car Agera Final collection announced in 2016. Koenigsegg presented the...

  • Koenigsegg Agera RS during 2017 production car land speed record attempt
    Koenigsegg Agera RS owner encouraged top speed run

    Many of the automotive industry's records and accolades are specifically sought after by the companies themselves. Not so for the Koenigsegg Agera RS' top speed record run. Actually, the owner of the car came up with the idea. Koenigsegg's founder, CEO and namesake, Christian von Koenigsegg, told...

  • Aston Martin Valkyrie AMR Pro

    Koenigsegg CEO and founder Christian von Koenigsegg is an unashamed car nut, so naturally he had plenty of things to say about the cars on display at this week's 2018 Geneva International Motor Show. And unlike many other senior people in the automotive world, von Koenigsegg is more than happy to express his thoughts on the competition, which in Geneva included hypercars like the Aston Martin Valkyrie, Mercedes-AMG Project One and McLaren Senna. Speaking with Road & Track, the Koenigsegg boss said he absolutely loved the Valkyrie; found the styling of the Project One lacking; and the...

  • Koenigsegg Agera RS during 2017 production car land speed record attempt
    Koenigsegg to replace Agera RS at 2019 Geneva auto show

    The Koenigsegg Agera RS is a mighty machine. It's one of the few cars on the planet that can legitimately skip over the name supercar and jump straight to hypercar. It's also a car that's been around since 2011, and Koenigsegg is getting ready to replace it. That won't happen at this year's Geneva...

  • Koenigsegg Regera with Ghost high-downforce package
    Koenigsegg Regera gets Ghost high-downforce package

    Koenigsegg's Regera hypercar has received a high-downforce package just in time for this week's 2018 Geneva International Motor Show. Called the Ghost package, the package adds a new lip spoiler and flics at the front of the car as well as a pair of winglets at the rear similar to the design we...

  • 2006 Koenigsegg CCX
    Koenigsegg launches Certified Legends program for used supercars

    The wait time on a new Koenigsegg literally spans years. But people with seven figures to drop on a car aren't used to waiting, so to keep potential buyers enticed Koenigsegg is launching a certified pre-owned program for its older cars. The new program, which will be formally introduced on Tuesday...

  • Koenigsegg Regera and first U.S.-spec Agera RS, 2016 Monterey Car Week
    An electric Koenigsegg could be in the brand's future

    Koenigsegg CEO and namesake Christian von Koenigsegg has peered into his company's future and an electric supercar could be part of it. The CEO, whose daily driver is a Tesla Model S, told AutoGuide in an interview published Friday that his company is incredibly interested in electrified...

  • Koenigsegg Agera RS goes from 0-250-0 MPH in 37 seconds
    300 mph in the Koenigsegg Agera RS? It's doable

    The Koenigsegg Agera RS claimed the production-car top speed record last November with a 277.9 mph run, but the company said higher speeds aren't out of the question—they're just not a priority. Christian von Koenigsegg and Michelin product manager Eric Schmedding spoke with The Drive in a...

  • Koenigsegg Agera RS during 2017 production car land speed record attempt

    A Koenigsegg Agera RS was driven to a top speed of 277.9 mph on a closed-off section of Nevada's Highway 160 on November 4, 2017, and in the process was entered into the record books as the fastest production car in history. The car happens to be owned by a customer in the United States and he's graciously allowed for it to be on display this week at the 2018 North American International Auto Show. The special car will be on display at the Michelin stand. As we learned last November, it was wearing a set of off-the-rack Michelin Pilot Sport Cup 2 tires for its record run. And the tires proved...

  • Koenigsegg Regera safety test
    You’ll be shocked by what a Koenigsegg Regera can withstand

    Koenigsegg’s latest models are fully federalized in the United States, which means they can be legally owned here without having to resort to shaky “Show or Display” rules. That’s no easy task for an automaker which has built fewer than 200 cars in its entire history, but...

  • Ride along in a Koenigsegg Agera RS to 284 miles per hour
    Ride along in a Koenigsegg Agera RS to 284 mph

    What's the fastest you've ever gone in a car or on a motorcycle? It actually doesn't matter what your answer is, because it's nowhere near as fast as Niklas Lilja has gone. He's the Koenigsegg test driver who recently got to push an Agera RS to its limits. At the end of his driving day, Lilja and...

  • Koenigsegg Agera RS sets production car land speed record of 277.9 mph
    Koenigsegg Agera RS sets 277.9 MPH top speed record

    Sweden’s Koenigsegg has claimed the production car land speed record with its Agera RS hypercar. Factory driver Niklas Lilja was the man behind the wheel. He on Saturday drove the customer-owned machine to a new record of 277.9 mph on a closed 12-mile section of Highway 160 just outside of...

  • How Koenigsegg destroyed the Bugatti Chiron
    Here's how Koenigsegg destroyed Bugatti's 0-248-0 mph world record

    The name of the game here is power-to-weight ratio. That's how you can have one car out perform another. As you climb to higher and higher speeds, you're going to need more and more power. That's why a car like the Bugatti Chiron packs a W-16 engine producing 1,480 horsepower. It needs that...

  • Koenigsegg Agera RS goes from 0-250-0 MPH in 37 seconds
    Koenigsegg just destroyed the Bugatti Chiron's 0-248-0 MPH record

    We all knew it was coming. Koenigsegg teased that it was ready to bring the heat with respect to the recent spat of news churned up by Bugatti and its new Chiron. The Bug was celebrated because it went from 0 to 248 mph (400 kph) and back to 0 in just 42 seconds. Christian von Koenigsegg must've...

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