Koenigsegg Promises New Top-Speed Record Attempt

TheKoenigsegg Jeskocame with a stern promise when revealed in 2021. With a 1,600-horsepower, E85-fed twin-turbo V8 engine and a drag coefficient of just 0.278, it's poised to go beyond 300 mph, which would be faster than its brother, theAgera RS.

The Swedish marque hasn't left the idea of proclaiming a new speed king. In an Instagram post, the automaker featured three photos of theAgera RST- formerly known as theAgera RSN, powered by the same engine found in the Koenigsegg One:1.

However, the caption in the social media post piqued our interest more, talking about the Agera RS and its speed records. At the end of the lengthy caption, Koenigsegg teased that the Jesko "will challenge these records in due time."

No specific timeline has been set, but it's definitely happening, albeit the last.Christian Von Koenigsegg told CarBuzzthat the Jesko Absolut's attempt will be the brand's "last stab" at top speed records.

So, what speed records will the Jesko Absolut attempt to break? In keeping the feud within the family, Koenigsegg cited the Agera RS when itbroke five world recordsin 2017. One was a two-way top speed set by a production car: 277.87 mph - a record that, per Koenigsegg, "has not yet been beaten by any production-spec homologated road car."

然后是0-400-0 km/h (0-249-0 mph) record, which theRegera has beaten recently. The 10-year-old hypercar - which only wore a new set of Michelin Cup 2 R tires for the run - registered 28.81 seconds for its record-breaking attempt, stealing the crown from the Rimac Nevera that tallied 29.93 seconds a month prior.