Manuel Nathan
The new beast the company is preparing for us is called the Koenigsegg Jesko Absolut and it’s the fastest car the company will ever make as they claim. The car is a 1.600 horsepower stinger looking beast and they claim the only serious problem about the car is the fact that it’s hard to grasp such huge numbers.
They might now look so big but imagine a 1.600 horsepower bullet weighing only 3.064 lbs reduced to only 330 at the maximum downforce the vehicle can achieve.
Presumably, the car will have a 5.0-liter V-8 with 2 turbochargers, and the 1.600 horsepower figure is only rated E85, giving it regular gas will mean dropping down to 1.280 horsepower which is still a huge number when talking about literally stock cars with no mods or tunes.
There are so many cars coming out of the factory with a lot of power but few of them achieve performances like this straight out of the factory, taking thousands of hours to design a car with downforce levels so high you won’t feel your weight while accelerating.
It’s technically like a little spacecraft on wheels based on the power it outputs. The transmission on this car is also very revolutionary as it was never seen before, a nine-speed automatic transmission, seems pretty normal yet, with SEVEN clutches, the car being able to switch from any gear to any other gear in a very short interval making shifting in it almost seamless.
The Jesko Absolut, on the other hand, is not a stripped down-land racer, its suspension being softer than the regular, it has to combat less downforce, thing which frees some room for the roof panel which wasn’t a thing in the regular Jesko, fact which makes the car more “streetable” the company says, while it’s still a lot of fun on track the car is fully street legal, which means it shouldn’t only be driven on tracks but on all streets and the ride has to be smooth both ways.
The suspension is making this possible and the classic wing used for downforce is replaced by two vertical fins inspired by an F-15 fighter jet and which improve high-speed lateral stability, the front splitter disappeared along with the side winglets, making the downforce on this car unbelievable.
Until the prices and other specs are going to be released the only thing we know is that this car is going to hunt the track cars and probably the records too.
