- The Koenigsegg Absolut would possibly go sooner than 311 mph
- Simulations put the automobile under redline at 311 mph with room to go
- A production-car speed-record try is within the works for this yr
Koenigsegg simply reset its personal document with the Jesko, however the automaker’s seemingly not finished but.
In February, Koengisegg founder and CEO Christian von Koenigsegg mentioned the Jesko Absolut will make a manufacturing automobile speed-record try in 2024. Plans are actually underway for that to happen.
Von Koenigsegg instructed Prime Gear “We’ve got the airfield right here. We’ve got our supercomputer simulators. We have been to a German wind tunnel with the Jesko Assault and Absolut, so we all know precisely how the aero works on the automobile.”
The exec mentioned that throughout simulations utilizing a chassis dyno whereas bearing in mind the rolling resistance of the tires, the drag of the automobile, and the load on the automobile at 500 kph, the automobile handed the five hundred kph (311 mph) mark in ninth gear earlier than hitting the rev limiter. The automobile would theoretically have extra pace in it, given sufficient area, at 311 mph.
Von Koenigsegg famous that none of this tells you ways secure the automobile is, however relatively the resistance to hurry and ahead momentum. The exec additionally cautioned that on a chassis dyno followers cool the intercoolers and radiators, and that is not the identical as having air movement naturally by means of the automobile at 311 mph.
Regardless of all this, “we managed to transcend 311 mph with a full load case,” von Koenigsegg relating to simulations.
“It is all right down to tires,” von Koenigsegg mentioned, at this level.
The exec admitted the crew hasn’t positioned a stretch of pavement it feels is comfortably lengthy sufficient that is not a public highway.
The Jesko Absolut would be the quickest automobile Koenigsegg ever makes, in response to von Koenigsegg. It is powered by a 5.0-liter twin-turbo V-8 that produces 16,00 hp when working on E85. A Koenigsegg-developed 9-speed computerized transmission, dubbed the Mild Pace Transmission, sends energy to the rear wheels.
The SSC Tuatara set a production-vehicle land-speed document of 282.9 mph in 2021. Bugatti received the race to the 300 mph mark, however the automaker did not run two methods.
