Faster than a Bugatti Veyron? Koenigsegg Agera R - CAR and DRIVER
The first thing you notice about Christian von Koenigsegg is left eyebrow, replaced by tattoos After a double inevitable decision, you realize the entrepreneur aged 29 Swedish no beard or eyelashes or Koenigsegg suffers from alopecia areata, an autoimmune disorder in which the body turns against its own hair follicles, often caused by prolonged stress condition.
Koenigsegg asked in 1994, he decided to embark on the supercar.
Yet Koenigsegg is serene, at least on the outside, it is not true that everyone who enters the business eventually folded, he said affably Look at Pagani, Mosler, Edonis, Saleen It's a success rate 50 percent, which is better than many companies.
Koenigsegg hopes his money CC V-8 dethrone the legendary McLaren F1's fastest car in the world The March 31, 1998, Andy Wallace piloted a McLaren F1 in 240 1 mph No car has never seriously challenged this record so far and when you see Koenigsegg headquarters a farm at the old thatched 200 year old who looks like Pippi Longstocking just moved out you wonder how serious he is.
Mounted amidships under hood double peak of the car, 4 32 6 liter Ford V-8 valves Huffs 19 pounds of thrust intercooled from a compressor Paxton Novi Koenigsegg claims 655 horsepower at 6500 rpm and 553 foot-pounds of torque at 5000 revolutions per minute, divided by a curb weight of only 2800 pounds, for a power to weight ratio of 4 3 pounds per horsepower body drag coefficient is 0 30, but 200 mph it succeeds in establishing opposite support 110 pounds of force and 154 in the back.
The calculation indicates that with a final drive ratio of 3 36 1, a red area of 7000 revolutions per minute, and 18-inch wheels, the car could possibly peak at near 235 mph in distance to the fifth gear spitting recording the McLaren.
Gordon Murray is skeptical After an article on CC appeared in the British car Evo mag, Murray, Technical Director McLaren wrote disdainfully, even letter mocking claiming McLaren will never be exceeded, even less by an upstart Sweden treasures Koenigsegg letter.
We saddle up for a quick tour through the landscape around ngelholm Neverland, in southern Sweden in the driver's door and rotates forward on its engineering marvel, multi-axis hinge and closes with the sound of a ball Quick to find the pocket of the catcher's mitt - whooompff car stutters slowly in first gear, and we're soon drag down a country two-lane, 100 mph in third gear lazy Koenigsegg gives me the sign to go, and I roll into the throttle a blur of eye-rattling, roaring, threw my head back into the headrest, the geyser landscape towards me in green and Fauvism yellows- oh, sweet Jesus -and I take fourth, zap it goes my head the road narrows to thread I stretch for 7000 redline, then jam the aluminum gear lever machined northeast for the fifth moments later, the car is approaching 200 mph and it is not even breathing hard I am.
Christian von Koenigsegg was born in Stockholm in 1972, the son of a wealthy entrepreneur The last name is German for the blade of the King The car Koenigsegg bug bit when he was three years old, after watching an animated film of restful Norwegian bike built a supercar for Le Mans I thought it was true, he said in the back of my mind, I always had a bicycle repairman built this incredible car.
Child, Koenigsegg say koh-egg -neegs scrutinizes car magazines batteries much later, he took over the business and economics at Brussels Scandinavian school, always planning Building a car company was the only thing I studied with all my heart.
In 1994 he began his first prototype in the garage of the family, using his own money in 1995, Koenigsegg has requested and to his surprise, received a loan of 150 000 Swedish Council for technological development.
Over the next two years, Koenigsegg has developed a composite space frame and prototype powered by an Audi four 2 liter engine He took the car for a race in Anderstorp RPR test driver Rickard Rydell lapped the circuit a second faster than Lamborghini Diablo sitting pole.
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