Friday 11 April 2014

Koesnigsegg one:1- first of the mega cars?

Deep in the Koenigsegg factory, customers have been wanting a race version of the already ballistic Agera r. Koenigsegg could have put a body kit on one and then presented it. Instead, they used it as an opportunity to develop one of their extreme projects. A car with the same weight as horsepower. So they built it, partially in retaliation to the new hyper cars proposed by Maclaren, Ferrari and Porsche. Koenigsegg was worried that these cars would make the Agera R seem tame. And so the Koenigsegg one:1 was born, the car you see at the top of the blog (as it looks so good). It has all of 1360bhp pulling only 1360kg of car (it uses a whole warehouse-full of carbon fibre and aluminium). This combination gives it a theoretical top speed of 273mph, enough to beat the Hennesey Venom GT as the unofficial record holder, if it can book a stretch of Tarmac long enough (the runs where the Venom and Veyron hit their speeds are not wanting to lend it to someone who has a good chance of stealing their coveted record). But perhaps the most shocking stat of the one:1 is (maybe predictably) it's power to weight ratio. 1002horsepower per tonne. ( or, obviously, 1horsepower per kg). Wow. This car could completely dwarf the hypercar trio, and make their manufacturers blush. Koenigsegg are eager to make a one:1 available for the test of the hypercars. The excitement has just gone up a level.

Nev

Opinions on the Koenigsegg one:1 will be appreciated in the comments box. Thanks



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