Koenigsegg pinpoints supply of fireside that flambeed a $3M Jesko Assault
The 70 or so street trippers who signed up for this yr’s 6to6 European tour had been wanting ahead to taking off from Athens, Greece, then crossing eight international locations and two mountain ranges on their solution to Monaco. One entrant did not make it out of Athens on the primary day: Not lengthy after leaving the resort, a $3 million Koenigsegg Jesko Assault Nur Version in uncooked carbon fiber with pure gold accents caught hearth whereas cruising by way of the town at low pace, turning right into a bonfire that left little greater than a pile of carbon shards melted to an engine. The Swedish carmaker had solely delivered round 30 of the deliberate 125 Jeskos on the time. The Swedish mothership dispatched an engineer to deliver the stays again to Sweden for an post-mortem. In a submit on Instagram, CEO Christian von Koenigsegg defined that the supply of the hearth was a leak within the automobile’s pressurized hydraulic line.
He mentioned the programs containing different flammable liquids had been intact, these being the engine and gearbox oil programs, and gas tank. “Nevertheless,” he wrote, “there was a streak of hydraulic fluid behind the automobile on the street. Given this we now have investigated the pressurized hydraulic system, which is the one system that incorporates this fluid.” Positive sufficient, that was the perpetrator, the hose discovered to be “compromised on the rear of the automobile.”
The corporate’s checking the hydraulic system on each automobile that is been produced in addition to these which were delivered. It is also engaged on a software program replace that screens hydraulic strain and, in case of a leak, can shut the system down in lower than a second. Based mostly on the submit date, that software program needs to be on its solution to vehicles or very shut. As soon as the vehicles have been up to date, Koenigsegg says they’re going to be secure to drive once more.
As for the 2 folks within the automobile in Athens, they made it out unhurt. On the finish of his submit, Christian added, “We’re additionally extremely grateful to the proprietor of the automobile in Greece for giving us his continued assist and that we can provide him with a new automobile so he can proceed his Koenigsegg journey.” This is an organization whose customer support is nearly as fast and complete as its record-breaking vehicles.
Oh, and cue the Fb Market profiteers: Autoblog Greece (no relation) reported somebody put bits of uncooked carbon fiber up on the market, claiming with out proof they’d come from the Jesko. Which makes whole sense. As a result of Fb Market.
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