At nearly $7 million each, the Bugatti Chiron Super Sport and Koenigsegg Jesko Absolut are hypercars built with one goal: ...
Koenigsegg is chasing 300 mph in dramatic fashion. The Jesko Absolut is the Swedish company's idea of a high-speed streamliner, with a drag coefficient of 0.278 and 1600 horsepower from a twin-turbo V ...
A quad-turbo W16 takes on a twin-turbo V8 on a very slippery drag strip in the Persian Gulf in a 3,200-horsepower standoff we ...
In 2017, Juan Pablo Montoya drove a Bugatti Chiron from standstill to 400 kilometers per hour (249 mph) and back to standstill in 41.96 seconds. A month later, Koenigsegg took more than five seconds ...
The Koenigsegg Jesko is a hot commodity, but that didn’t stop the company from using the car to set a new world record. While this seems like a questionable move, the Jesko Absolut is now the fastest ...
The Koenigsegg Jesko isn’t the most efficient vehicle out there … except when it comes to setting records. The futuristic hypercar’s Absolut variant closed out June on a high note, breaking the ...
As founder Christian von Koenigsegg explains, this isn't the record the Jesko Absolut was built for; its super-slippery aerodynamics are designed specifically to break the outright production car ...
Koenigsegg just reset its own record with the Jesko, but the automaker may not be done yet. In February, Koengisegg founder and CEO Christian von Koenigsegg said the Jesko Absolut will make a ...
Swedish hypercar brand Koenigsegg is no stranger to breaking records. In 2005, Koenigsegg briefly dethroned McLaren for the fastest production car in the world. Koenigsegg's cars have gone on to set ...
Swedish hypercar maker Koenigsegg has reclaimed the coveted 0–400–0 km/h world record. The Jesko Absolut posted a blistering 25.21 seconds, beating the previous mark set by Rimac’s Nevera in July by 0 ...
The race for the world’s fastest production car is well from being over, with Christian von Koenigsegg hinting at a new attempt later this year. The company is currently looking for a suitable road to ...