Koenigsegg One with Only 1360 Horsepower

Koenigsegg One is one beautiful brute and it has immense power.  Pink sent me the part which got me started out looking for more on these ferocious, extremely expensive cars.

Pink sent the part which shows how the motor works and it's a bit like a diesel but far stranger.  (YouTube:  What Is Koenigsegg FreeValve? Camless Engine!)

That link is most likely to be appreciated by the type of people who bring a motorcycle inside the house over the Winter to rebuild it for the Spring.  Inasmuch as my most intimate mechanical experience was replacing a car's water pump in the Winter or putting loud pipes on a Harley, that part didn't do a lot for me.  It did pique some immediate curiosity for how well this motor works.  How fast does it go and what does it sound like doing it.

In this one Jay Leno takes the Koenigsegg out onto a test track with Christian von Koenigsegg who designed everything in the vehicle and the only parts which are not hand-made in his factory are the tires.  Even the doors are cool since they go beyond the inventiveness of the original Mercedes gull wing doors.  After that you hear what she sounds like.  (YouTube:  Jay Leno Drives The $3,000,000 Koenigsegg One:1 - Jay Leno's Garage)

For this one we're going to Spa Francorchamps, often regarded as the fastest track in the world, and here the driver gets brutal with it.

There's a puzzle in the watching since why does the driver make the same mistake on the same corner each time around the track.  Each time he throws the ass end out and the sliding wastes a lot of speed on wheel spin.

Another puzzle is the shifts are slow and there's an unusual crackling in the sound of the motor between shifts.  No chance I'm enough of a mechanic to know what that means but at least one brother can tell what a motor is doing just by listening to it.


Thanks to Pink as this vehicle is definitely a beast but a beautiful one, in a garish kind of way.