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This Is Koenigsegg’s Le Mans Race Car That Was Banned Before It Ever Raced

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This Is Koenigsegg’s Le Mans Race Car That Was Banned Before It Ever Raced

Screenshot: Top Gear on YouTube Koenigsegg was still a fairly new company with just 30 employees when it built the CCGT. Based on the Competition Coupe CC8S, which had been launched as the company’s first road-legal offering in 2002, the CCGT was intended to go GT1 racing. From the beginning, the road car was designed to … Read more

Koenigsegg Breaks Its Own Record By Doing 0-250-0 MPH Run In Just 28.27 Seconds

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Koenigsegg Breaks Its Own Record By Doing 0-250-0 MPH Run In Just 28.27 Seconds

Koenigsegg just officially broke its own 0-400-0 km/h world record in Sweden last week, with a Jesko Absolut shaving nearly a second off the Koenigsegg Regera’s previous record. 400 km/h equates to about 248.5 mph, which the Jesko Absolut reached from a dig in a mind-boggling 18.82 seconds, and then completed the trip back to … Read more