Koenigsegg resets 0-249-0 mph file once more with the Jesko Absolut


- Koenigsegg as soon as once more breaks the pace and braking file of 0-400-0 kph
- The Jesko Absolut beat the Koenigsegg Regera and Rimac Nevera
- The information had been set utilizing the identical Michelin Pilot Sport Cup 2R tires as buyer automobiles, of which Koenigsegg will make 125
Koenigsegg has damaged its personal 0-400-0 kph (0-249-0 mph) file for manufacturing automobiles, posting a time of 27.8 seconds with the Jesko Absolut, the automaker introduced Monday with a press launch and accompanying YouTube video.
That improves on the earlier file of 28.8 seconds the automaker set in 2023 with the Regera, which in flip beat the 29.9-second time recorded by the Rimac Nevera in a testing session earlier that yr.
Koenigsegg additionally claims to have set a production-car file for 0-249 mph acceleration on the identical run, at 18.8 seconds. The automaker additionally recorded 0-250-0 mph and 0-250 mph occasions of 28.2 seconds and 19.2 seconds, additionally claiming these as information for many who do not acknowledge the existence of the metric system. Nevertheless, 400 kph, which converts to 249 mph, is the quantity mostly used for comparative functions.

Koenigsegg Jesko Absolut resets 0-249-0 mph file
The file run happened June 27 at an airfield in Örebro, Sweden, in response to the discharge, with preliminary runs the day prior to this. Koenigsegg take a look at driver Markus Lundh made the file run at 5:00 a.m. native time to benefit from decrease ambient air and observe temperatures and diminished wind.
The Jesko Absolut used for the file is the low-drag model, with diminished frontal space and deleted lively aero contributing a drag coefficient of simply 0.27. Koenigsegg additionally builds a high-downforce Jesko Assault model. The manufacturing run of 125 automobiles—which bought out in 2022—shall be break up between Absolut and Assault configurations. The primary buyer automobile was accomplished earlier this yr.
Koenigsegg claims the Jesko Absolut used within the file try was fully inventory apart from a roll cage and a driver’s seat from the One:1 hypercar (the latter was driver Lundh’s choice). The information had been set utilizing the identical Michelin Pilot Sport Cup 2R tires as buyer automobiles, in response to the automaker.
In 2020, founder Christian von Koenigsegg mentioned the Jesko Absolut could be the quickest automobile Koenigsegg will ever make. In an interview earlier this yr, von Koenigsegg upped the ante, saying the corporate would make a manufacturing automobile prime pace file try in 2024. This file try did not fairly try this (Lundh reached a prime pace of 256 mph, brief of the present file by any definition), nevertheless it did function a heat up for it.
“This file run validated the accuracy of the simulated and calculated efficiency of the Jesko Absolut, which supplies us nice confidence in its skill to outright be the quickest, totally homologated manufacturing automobile on this planet,” von Koenigsegg mentioned in an announcement. “Now it’s all right down to tire testing, growth, and approval earlier than we lastly could make an try at that file.”