Ghost Squadron: The Koenigsegg Owners With The World’s Fastest Production Car

driving a Koenigsegg is exciting and terrifying it's a violent

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it's actually an Air Force

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Koenig eggs are built in the facility where the

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squadron used to reside you know when five or six conical eggs are together you know what people refers oh look at the The

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squad moves around Geoffrey Chiang, we call him sir. logistics he'll run around saying hey we're going to be late if you're not here at 10:00 a.m. we're leaving here you're gone everyone knows where it is you know what's right Jeffrey is the organizer Jeffrey is the master at planning my first hairy car was a Datsun 200 s great for that time period and that was the mid 80's.

I went from a 200sx to a 300 ZX. In fact, I changed. in that 300 ZX for a used Porsche 911 I even had an f40 and an f50 a Celina 7 biturbo all very powerful well-known cars and the Koenigsegg is different from all of them, they were the first two Koenigseggs in southern California and it stayed that way. like this for several years until you know well the last few years, the Instagram king of the Internet in this group is, by accident, a kind of instigator. Den and I have been friends for several years, you know, this is like that movie where you know, the cowboys have their long jackets and you see that distance and they walk slow Geoffrey, we're not that cool, my first car was a 1964 mistake , it cost me I think $150 because it actually didn't work.

When I started racing, I didn't really have a seat, so I used to milk boxes. I was able to meet Marc at a car show in 2017, young gentleman, you know he looks older than he is. He might be my third child in my family, if you want to calculate the age differences, but the first car was actually a 2013 Dodge Challenger srt8. My dad actually had a 1972 Dodge Challenger in Beirut, that was his first car, all the bullet holes and knife cuts, and so I did it. I did a lot of research on the Challenger and became obsessed with that car after meeting Dan, that's when that friendship, you know, became dangerous because you know he gets you involved with all the mega cars now like Pagani and Konan and the high-end MacLarens. and I started collecting Pagani.

Also, I recently received my Koenigsegg. You get used to the high-end lifestyle when you're around people like Dan Marc and Jeffrey. I mean, they have to do everything possible for the best of the best. You know, Baller Status Mark. He said he's just a down to earth person, he's the symbolic patriarch, he'll tell us the stories of the old days and that's what keeps the humor within the system, we're all Jokers, I mean it's a fun group to be around. close to him. Nobody takes themselves very seriously here and I bring a little color to the organization, my dad had a red 59 Porsche convertible with a black roof and a luggage rack on the back, and that is my first memory of a car that really excited me.

The muscle car was a Mustang, a '67 Mustang with a 390, that car was a lot of fun. I managed to get a few fun cars here and there. I had an 89 930 turbo slant-nose convertible that was a lot of fun, but the car payment was more than my house payment at the time and that didn't last long when we're talking hypercar that the CCX was my first with those cars with the CCX with the Agera. I've never actually rolled all the way to the floor on the accelerator because there's just no place to do that, yeah these guys Dan, Jeffrey and Mark are all car enthusiasts so we have that in common but they're also great guys, they are all entrepreneurs.

I'm not very scared or very afraid. You better not do this or you better not do that. We all take risks and it's a great group to be around. You know, without Dan and Jeffrey, I wouldn't have the car. I just received the final edition of the Koenigsegg Agera R S Bader, one of two that are the end of an era of the Giro RS era, these final additions were very custom and were never they'll do again, so it's an amazing experience to be able to Let's say we own the last two cars that came off the assembly line, what's the name?

They all have these names from Norse mythology because of Sweden and you know it's Thor, it's Ragnarok, you know Vader and I think it marks what your cargo name is. He doesn't have a name, he has to have a name. He's great for me, he's Ruthie and then they won't let him go. The other Koenigsegg would be the rege era and that was the first car delivered to the US. We call it cherry bomb because of the drokken color that an Agera R is, driving a Koenigsegg is really different than driving any other car, the engineering, the performance, the brutal speed in a positive way it's a violent car see everyone snap their necks and ask what is that car what is this and then you see eleven of them behind them, they know each other, they know, they go through tunnels, they accelerate and they just explode like crazy, nothing like accelerating and feeling that push in your back or taking that curve and reaching the apex and feeling the g forces. go sideways and know that you are doing something that evolution or nature did not intend for your body to do an exciting and scary roller coaster those are the best possible descriptions likes to play with you likes to be scary going 200 miles an hour in this thing Whether you're a passenger or a driver, you get the same feeling of that free fall, you know, going into a loop or falling where your heart sinks and just takes off.

Everyone thinks how fast this car goes. I say, well, how fast is it to stop first? then you'll tell yourself it's as fast as you want to go when you come to a corner where you want to make sure you have the confidence to make that corner. There are no other tires besides Michelin. It's amazing to see these cars all lined up. up to go there, land and see what 10 Koenigsegg sitting there on the runway was amazing, it didn't hurt that we had in and out on the plate, Christian von Koenigsegg, the designer inventor of the vehicle, you know the legend himself, credible, humble. person I have to pinch myself I guess you know it's amazing in a lot of ways it'll be at car shows or at events and you know if it's a 12 year old kid coming up to you and asking what makes you think about building a car to the final. people who know nothing about cars and he will never talk down to them, he will just explain and talk to them at a level they understand.

Christian wants his cars to be high-performance monsters; there will never be anything in a Koenigsegg that doesn't have a purpose and that was a direct quote from him so we should talk a little bit about setting a

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record in the desert and when I met Christian for the first time and I asked him what the top speed was in the Agera RS. and he said theoretical 275 and I said well, YP a radical, he said because we don't have a place where we can race that car that we need, we don't have a long enough straight or a safe enough track for us to test it. because of the top speed which immediately piqued my interest because I don't like to know what things I like to know how the

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I have a natural curiosity. The high-speed race would never have been done unless it was Jeffrey Chang. pushing the state of Nevada, he was pushing the people who can make this happen to the end point in one day, he says okay this is the date we all go to and we are going to break the record, honestly even Krishna said : Are we really doing it? From Nevada to Las Vegas there is a stretch of road that is approximately 11 miles straight. It's not flat but it's straight and the road surface is in very good condition and we had always joked that it would be great. to see how fast a Koenigsegg could go on this particular road and Mark was generous enough to offer his car for this world record attempt because there was no way I was going to offer my car and I don't think Dan was ready to Take a step forward. and offer yours, but you know there's a lot of risk involved.

I think there were three guys from Koenigsegg and two guys from Michelin and they had to test them on an airplane test machine because they don't make a passenger car machine that spins. a tire at 300 miles per hour at 300 miles per hour or 270 that the tire valve, the valve stem, has a mass equivalent to one hundred and seven pounds, maybe a blowout at those speeds or you know, I mean, it would be simply catastrophic, so you ran three more additional races, probably three more races at full speed on the same set of tires, which was a monumental feat, the tires performed excellently, the highlight would probably have for you this afternoon taking God knows how many six entry and exit codes. drive-thru which is fun and eat a double-double and some fries and a shake from the wing of my car.

The exotics on Cannery Row are a phenomenal spectacle simply because it is open to the public. What's good about it? It's really a moving car show for a week and you have all kinds of cars and all kinds of people in a great environment, usually with great weather, so how can you go wrong? I love Cannery Row because those are the people that show, those are the people that You know, those are the people that love cars, they get so excited to see them up close, it feels like you're at the zoo and all the cages were open.

I figured that was probably how the Beatles felt. The crowds are just cheering and hustling and taking pictures and again, a lot of them have heard of these cars, they've never seen one of these kids or these people who are all over social media is our generation X Y Z. they don't have $ 800 to participate in the smothering event nor do they have a hat to wear in the event like put some honey and watch the bees come you know it's surreal I mean look at all these people just here because they love cars , this is one of my highlights because this is the people's show.

Oh, I mean, I've enjoyed it all hanging out with a good group of kids driving cars growing up. You never thought you'd be here, you know? Owning these cars and hearing about them, seeing about them, but actually owning one of them and showing it off in front of 25,000 people, I guess, is truly surreal, it's incredible and it's unreal. My life's experience in business has taught me that if you are chasing a selfish outcome, it is difficult to get there if you let it go and look for ways to serve others, that the universe is quite kind and rewarding and you simply look for opportunities. to serve and you say, okay, what assets?

What resources do I have and how could I have blessed someone else's life and given someone who doesn't have as many opportunities the opportunity to really enjoy something and give them motivation to one day say hey, I want to own this thing that we were? In that place, at some point in our lives, there are a lot of people who are held back because no one has ever told them that they could do more if we can do something to help open that up and help people believe in their lives. own abilities in your own capacity that's what gives me joy in life is seeing people succeed my goal is how can we leverage these assets that are there to do good for as many people as we can.

You know it's about giving back and helping wherever we are. We can and do the best we can with it. We have already had several charity events last year and we have more plans for this year, it allows us to use our passion for something positive for you.