Koenigsegg

On August 18, Christian Von Koenigsegg turned up at the Laguna Seca race track with a car and driver, neither of which had ever seen the track in the flesh. The driver wasn't completely unprepared, he'd apparently cranked out a few laps on a Playstation.

Koenigegg has vowed never to make a faster car than the wild Jesko Absolut. This feisty 1,600-horsepower hypercar has now had its first day out on an empty airstrip – and it brought home the bacon, including the coveted 0-400-0 km/h world record.

Koenigsegg has unveiled a new Client Specification model of the Gemera. This unveiling also inaugurates the supercar maker's new Gripen Atelier design, production, development, and showroom space in Sweden.

In just six years, hypercar makers have shaved an incredible 12 seconds off one of the most brutal full-system tests in the automotive world. Amusingly, Koenigsegg has just grabbed its old record back with a 4-year-old luxury "megacar."

Koenigsegg's latest breakthrough comes in the form of a compact, power/torque-dense electric motor. The new Quark motor will help the boundary-smashing Gemera four-seater achieve sprint times formerly reserved for the quickest electric coupes.

Man stands next to car and talks about it: it's a video format you've seen a thousand times. But this guy's name is on the back of the car, and the car is the extraordinary Koenigsegg Jesko. Join the man as he presents, then flogs, his latest beast.

Koenigsegg debuts the Gemera, the "world's first mega-GT." This all-out performance machine seats four and packs some of Koenigsegg's most impressive tech, including a gearbox-free KDD powertrain with a small camless Freevalve twin-turbo.

Koenigsegg doesn't have to call the new Jesko Absolut the world's fastest car, because referring to it as the fastest Koenigsegg amounts to the same thing. Packing 1,600 hp and fins like a fighter jet, the Absolut is an all-out speed machine.

With its 1,500-horsepower, single-speed direct drive hybrid powertrain, the Regera was built to destroy the 0-400-0 test. And destroy it it did.

​Porsche’s circular 12.6 km (7.8 mile) test track at Nardò in Italy has been renovated and is again open for business. More than just the banked high speed test track, the Nardò Technical Center contains 20 test tracks on over 700 hectares, and has been used by 90 automotive companies in the past.

Beating some 1,600 horsepower out of a 5-liter twin-turbo V8 is no small achievement. Creating a new multi-clutch transmission that can skip instantly from any gear to any other is amazing. But the new King Koenigsegg also has its sights set on becoming the world's first 300mph production car.

​Hypercar buyers love carbon fiber, and Koenigsegg has just released the carbon-iest hypercar ever with this "naked carbon'" KNC Regera, which strips away any lacquer, varnish and even the thin layer of epoxy, to present a car finished in nothing but bare carbon fiber.