Koenigsegg Agera RS: 0-248-0 in 36 seconds

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1g07RpTPFE

https://www.autoblog.com/2017/10/05/koenigsegg-demolishes-bugatti-brand-new-0-400kph-0-record/

Koenigsegg Agera RS completes 0-400-0 km/h in 36.44 seconds - Koenigsegg | Koenigsegg

Last month, we told you how a Bugatti Chiron, driven by Juan Pablo Montoya, set a new record for accelerating from 0 to 400 kph (248 mph) and then braking back to 0, all done in 41.96 seconds. Well, that record didn't stand for long — it was just annihilated by a Koenigsegg.

Christian von Koenigsegg decided to take a crack at the record as a means of performance-testing a new Agera RS he was about to deliver to a U.S. customer, this one with an upgraded engine making 1,360-horsepower and 1,011 pound-feet of torque. The hypercar was so factory-fresh, in fact, it still had industrial tape protecting its leading edges. After some lower-speed test runs (an Agera RS is typically tested at up to 186 mph), Koenigsegg's team took the car to Vandel, a former Danish military airbase that now serves as a big solar-energy farm, for the big run on Oct. 1.

Some fascinating numbers about the record run, with factory driver Niklas Lilja at the wheel:

Lilja went from 0 to 400 kph to 0 in 36.44 seconds, beating the Chiron's record by a whopping 5.52 seconds. (The Chiron's total time was 41.96.)

Koenigsegg says its data show that the car engaged traction control in the first three gears, the final time at 113 mph.

The car hit the 248 mph goal in 26.88 seconds over 1.21 miles. (The acceleration phase took Montoya in the Chiron 32.6 seconds.)

Braking to 0 mph took 9.56 seconds and 1,584 feet. (The Chiron braked in 9.3 seconds.)

Though the Agera RS' record time for 0-400-0 was was 36.44 seconds, that does not factor in the fact the car went a wee bit past 400 kph, to 403, or 250 mph, before Lilja hit the brakes. If you include that sliver of time, the overall run was 37.28 seconds. But it isn't counted in the record.

Total distance covered was 1.57 miles — on a 1.7-mile runway.
 

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The 1:1 supposedly does 0-400 in 20 seconds (per wiki). The RS here did it in 26 seconds. Searching for 1:1 confirmation.

The One:1 did 0-300-0 in about 18 seconds.
Koenigsegg One:1 Exceeds World Speed Records

Koenigsegg has outperformed existing production car speed records during a practice session in the groundbreaking Koenigsegg One:1 Megacar, headlined by a 0-300-0 kmh time of just 17.95 seconds.

The stage data for the record beating run is as follows:

0-300 kmh: 11.922 seconds
300-0 kmh: 6.032 seconds
0-300-0 kmh: 17.95 seconds

0-200 mph: 14.328 seconds
200-0 mph: 6.384 seconds
0-200-0 mph: 20.71 seconds
 

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If Koenigsegg named their next model the Mjolnir I would not be opposed to that. The Koenigsegg is the closets thing to a "Muscle Hyper Car" there is.

Its not quiet.

Its not a refined ride.

Its an all out brutal assault on your senses.

The original Top Gear review says it best.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPeveGmeYLk
 
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