2018 Koenigsegg Regera - Jay Leno’s Garage

I think any card will give you something that no other car in the world can do in practice. Welcome to the prison with

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episode. Today we present two exceptional cars, hypercars if you like, they are both made by Koenigsegg, you know? the Swedish manufacturer Agera RS and the era of the platform now this has the distinction of being the fastest production car in the world no other car has gone faster on a public road than this same car none like this real car and if you look at my CNBC show, you'll see how we take it on the road and have some fun with it.

This is the one that really intrigues me because it has a completely new way of streaming that no one had done before we were lucky enough to have. The man who designed these cars here today you know he was doing my television show. It was fun meeting movie stars and pop stars and people like that, but my real heroes are all engineers and this gentleman is definitely one of them, let's bring them to Christian. von Koenigsegg Christian, come on my friend, thank you, see you, welcome back, thank you very much, it is a pleasure to have you here, very modest guy, but you have built these exceptional cars and this is the fastest in the world, faster than a Bugatti Veyron and then the McLarens and then everyone else, it's incredibly fast, if I do say so myself, yes, I think it even took us faster ones by surprise, what's at the end, so tell us what we have here, we have a v8 here, yes, it is a homegrown one, designed by ourselves, built by ourselves, all aluminum, 5 liter V8, double overhead camshaft, 4 valves per cylinder, dry sump lubrication , it is actually the smallest fully approved central engine in the world.

What do you mean by downsizing? So it has 5 liters of displacement and up to 1300 60 horsepower. So if you scale it down to a 1 liter engine size and you would have the same kind of technology, you'll have around 260 horsepower per liter exactly, so it's interesting that you don't really think about downsizing or hypercars, But but. You want a compact, lightweight powertrain with lots of torque, good response, other top and power, but no bigger than necessary because weight is your enemy and space is your enemy, a car like this, so reducing Size comes into play, it's just not talked about.

There's a lot to that terminology, but it's the same thing now, if you read a lot of automotive blogs, the people you know have no idea where they're talking about, all these rumors start, this is your engine, you design it, it's not based on it. . a Ford v8 block or an AMG or anything like that it's your own engine your own design right I mean when we started building cars from the beginning we actually started basing them on Ford v8 engines and so on but as time went on Time and our needs grew and we saw the possibilities of what we were capable of, we moved away from that and started manufacturing our own blocks and making all the internal components ourselves, even the controllers are ours, so they are both our own motors and those of BMW. they have their own engine or women have their own purpose because boutique manufacturing is very popular now people get this person's brakes and this person's engine someone else's transmission even McLaren went to BMW racing for F1, of course, Paul Roush is just a brilliant guy right, I designed that engine, but all this is done on your bench, you make your own wheels, right, you make your own brake caliper, even every part of the car, I mean, we do our own PCB science, our own drivers, our own wiring harness.

You mentioned that we pioneered the use of carbon fiber wheels and it is still the lightest carbon fiber wheel in production today, although we conceived it eight years ago, and when we made the big carbon wheel, if I said it was impossible, no one can make carbon fiber wheels now. some of them do and now they don't say the same thing anymore but we are still lighter and stiffer than them with their wheels and theirs are hollow right that's the unique technology they first made in an autoclave so we had more pressure than anyone else who doesn't use an automatic wheel watch, secondly, we have the patented holo technology, so instead of being like a beam shaped spoke, we asked for a flat spoke, it's just a tube hollow which everyone knows is a stronger construction than an open construction, right?

So that's the key, yeah, and as you mentioned, we make our own brake calipers, we have the world record for stopping from 250 miles per hour to zero or 400 kilometers per hour to zero in less than 10 seconds, actually, and those are the world records, I would say. They have proven themselves, yes they certainly have, now we will talk about the differences between these two cars. This one, for lack of a better word, would be tougher, more racing Aria, has some luxury features, power doors, a more luxurious interior, and of course a very complicated transmission which we'll get to in a moment.

Let's focus on this one that we put out and were driving today that will be featured on Jay Leno's Garage on CNBC. We took it in the hills and we really had a lot of fun with it and you'll see why it goes 277 miles per hour actually when it's buckled up, that wasn't exactly, yeah, we were on a closed highway in Nevada, it wasn't that wide, it felt very smooth at 100 miles per hour but at 280 miles probably a little less smooth, yes at speed but yes it was on a slight incline so let's say downhill we hit the rev limiter at around 284 miles per hour, which was incredible, but even uphill, which we did within the prescribed half hour and reached almost 250 miles per hour, which was faster than anyone managed to go in a straight line without uphill inclines, so the average was two hundred and seventy-seven point nine miles per hour.

Now this engine is solidly mounted on the chassis, this one is rubber mounted on the chassis while we were driving, it means you said put your hand on the chassis. I didn't feel any vibration, maybe if I felt more visceral, yes, definitely exactly, so this is really about optimizing weight at almost any cost, so from the beginning of the process we decided that we would use the transmission and the engine as load-bearing chassis members so you can have less chassis members, otherwise that usually creates a lot of rackets inside the car and a lot of vibration. but it's really a testament to how well balanced the engine is, that you barely notice it, you hear more mechanical sounds that many of our customers start to enjoy over time, you hear everything that's going on, it's louder because of that, but I I would say It's still livable, but you also get that kart feel because you don't have secondary motion.

In turns, everything just hangs together as one solid piece, so what is the curb weight of this car with all the fluids and a full tank of fuel? everything weighs 1420 kilos, so it's under 3000, it's definitely 28 27 28 kind of right, well we'd like to have smart airbags, it actually has a stereo with an amplifier, it actually has power seats and power windows to The U.S., so you have a lot of The creatures comfort power steering, ABS, all these things, but to engine standards, with all the safety equipment you have to install and all the emissions controls you have to install and the creature functions that the client now demands, it's extremely lightweight, you know?

A lot of times when people come with supercars, they say, well, we're waiting for certification, we'll have it any day now, the government will approve the car, they don't approve them, they don't pass emissions, they don't pass accidents. testing, these are fully homologated, you can drive them anywhere in the United States, you can drive, you can sell this car in California, the car has the engines that meet the carb emissions regulations, we have all the airbag systems intelligent actions that we have carried out in 18 crashes. tests to meet all the safety regulations, you have to crash 18 cars, you know, we have basically used two monocoque chassis with many different body panels and the crash beams outside the monocoque, but we managed to pass most of those tests. with only two chassis which is detrimental for such an expensive car and can't accept like 18 new cars as a transport program of only 80 cars, yeah Blues Brothers now tell us how much horsepower this car has so this It has one thousand three hundred and sixty horsepower, which is one hundred and sixty and that's equivalent to one megawatt of power and it was actually quite one on one to evaluate this car that was even more track oriented than the right one and a little bit lighter, it was the world's first megawatt car, so we call it the world's first mega car and this is now beyond that, it's 1.1 megawatts because this one has 1,500 horsepower, but 670 of them are electric, and here it's just air combustion, combustion engine only, how many transmission speeds, a 7 speed transmission with paddle shifters. and then you have an electro-hydraulic differential that we developed ourselves for the car, which works brilliantly and makes the car a lot of fun to race and it has two turbos, two turbos, yes, absolutely, and the roof pops out like most eggs. conical.

I would say all the Kennix eggs, the roof fell off, the only card that couldn't be stored in the front was the one to one because we had big Aero ducks, their maximum downforce, but all other versions including their RS equipment and the platform era. you can take the roof off and put it on the front and what I think is really unique is that when the roof is on there's no extra axle line or extra rubber seals or it's a step in the body that's revealed, it's a hardtop, it's just a natural shape like a coupe, so we jokingly say you get two cars for one, if you just want a coupe, you never take it off, you have a perfect coupe, yeah, people just don't realize realize this is coming.

It's so smooth that people don't even realize exactly and I should mention that the record was broken using a normal gas pump, you put gas in, it's anything you can trick the fuel into, I don't know what it's like to flex your car though , this is how it works 91 octane up to 85, which is like the biofuel that you can find at many stations here in California and the more 85 you put in, the more power you get because it has more alcohol and alcohol has a higher octane rating than regular gas and it has built-in octane. in cooling effect, so we have a flexible fuel sensor that detects the amount of alcohol and the more alcohol you have in the tank in percentage, the more turbo boost you will get and the more ignition timing you will get, but sure the fuel we have racing is what you can find at a gas station in California, for example, and like I said, if you want to see the baby with this car going 277 miles per hour, it's on your website right, it's on our website, okay, let's move on to this one again this is the one that really intrigued me let's take it for a spin in just a few minutes we'll take the roof off so you can get an idea of ​​what this car is like it's probably a little more luxurious it weighs a few pounds more so yeah, maybe it dropped the top speed by a couple of miles, yeah man please, it's marginal.

What I like most is that everyone loves to go through the doors, but the doors cut into the roof line. I'm having trouble with the 2005 Ford GT First Edition. If you pull into a parking space that you can't get out of if there's anyone, even in the spaces next to you, you literally have to crawl on your hands and knees while these doors, well , let's open that door somehow it works on this car, it's actually completely robotic, so you don't even have to touch it, it just turns off by itself, as we saw a while ago, the same goes for the whole body, in fact, they are all robot eyes, now you were the first to do this, this is your invention. type of door, yes we are the first to make this one and as far as I know only once, that's what I find fascinating, there are literally hundreds of manufacturers making all kinds of different things but they all seem to be a variation .

From something that has already been done, this is totally new, could you call it? What would it be called dihedral? Well, we have the short name, we call it dihedral synchronized propeller drive door mechanism. Oh, that's a pretty door, so it's actually more practical and functional than elegant. One way people think we do it is because it's cold, but if you look at this, you can actually park so close to another car and the door is completely out of the way and you can literally get into the car much easier. Coming in excitedly, there's nothing in the way that you have a very wide threshold that makes the door very wide and why do we have a wide threshold?

Well, you want it to sit in the center of the car for aerodynamic reasons and weight distribution and thenChristian, it's truly an honor and a privilege to have you here and I'm so excited that when you bring these things into my

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and I. I get to drive, but I'm really the luckiest guy in the world. Thanks my friend. Thank you. Visit their website. You will see the fastest car on a public road in automotive history. Thanks guys. See you next. week