The Fastest Car In The World? Koenigsegg Jesko Absolut

How Fast Is the Jesko Absolut? The Fastest Car Koenigsegg Will Ever Make.

The Jesko Absolut is the fastest car Koenigsegg will ever make. The vehicle is powered by a twin-turbo V8 engine which produces 1600 horsepower while running on E85 fuel at 2.2 bar boost pressure. But it's really clever trick is having an exceptionally low drag coefficient. Compared to the track-focused Jesko, the Absolut appears fairly similar, but there are quite a few aerodynamic changes in order to reduce the drag coefficient. This includes removing the rear wing, removing the hood ventilation, smoothed out the fender louvers, which actually still have holes in them, but with reduced drag. They’ve removed the front dive planes and winglets, altered the front splitter, and taken out the added downforce from the side vents by straightening the air’s flow. They’ve added dished wheels, which is a removable piece, for reducing the rear tires aerodynamic drag, and the rear of the body has been reshaped with a sharp cutoff, further reducing drag, as well as the overall body length being longer. The ride height has also been slightly lowered, and since it doesn’t have as much downforce, it also has a softer suspension. You may wonder why the fins remained on the car; Koenigsegg found they actually reduce drag, rather than increase it, by redirecting the vortex generated behind the car. The car still needs some downforce for stability, peaking at 150 kg, about a tenth of the Jesko’s maximum downforce at 1400 kilograms. Combined with the Jesko, there will only be 125 made.

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[wojcikt]

When Christian said “do the math” I felt like that was a calling to you to make this video

[zheson-speed]

According to my mathematical calculations, the car is batshit crazy

[mkst]

Traveling that fast with such small downforce is going to be exciting. There's a fine line between driving and flying!

[legambaz]

Not only is this an engineering marvel, it's so beautiful at every angle.

[muroc]

At 4:35 had a 'holy crap' moment when I realized that the 10% loss from the drive train is more power lost than my car produces in total (2008 Prius).

[nightshade]

2:43 "Companies like Jet Fighters"
*immediately thinks of Saab*

[jankyredstoner]

*me cruising at 330 mph in my Jesko Absolut*

* officer pulls over *

"Do you know why I'm pulling you over today?"
"Because I let you."




"Understandable have a nice day."

[alshifra]

"Nothing we learn in school is gonna apply to the real world"

Jason: Hold my NOS

[cencoast_.]

Okay so he lost me at "let's get started"

[woongah]

I remember when production cars that could run above 300 km/h were a handful... Ferrari 288 GTO, Testarossa, the Diablo ...

Time has flown by.

[Anankin]

I love you and Mr. Koenigsegg. And so does Mr. May apparently.

No homo.

[mayursable]

Koenigsegg: Will stop making the fastest cars on the planet
Bugatti: Relief at last

[pewpew]

here after the jesko absolut broke the world record for 0-400-0 in just 28 secs, crazy

[alana]

Jayson in college

Advisor: How many physics classes you want to take ?

Jayson: Yes

[norezenable]

"You can choose to use a slightly different number if you want..."
Nah, I'm good with that.

[TheCostantinus]

Bugatti: "we have set the highest speed record ever reached by a road car"
Koenigsegg: "hold my rear wing"

[srinitaaigaura]

There is one more variable. The Koenigsegg engines typically peak in power between 7200-7800 rpm while the rev limit is at 8500 rpm on the Jesko. In the case of the Agera RS also, at the rev limiter the engine made below peak power. So this does depend on the final drive ratio, but I think the actual top speed could be slightly lower because of this.

[sushimshah]

SEVEN freaking clutches?
Had only heard about dual clutch transmissions till now

[carloslemos]

next video:
How long should the road be to take it to 500kph!!

[MrPhilowneus]

So at top speed it travels a mile in about 10 seconds. Sounds like my dreams and my nightmares.