- Narrator: This is the new Koenigsegg Jesko,
and it could be the world's first road legal
car to break 300 mph.
The $2.8 million car is a replacement for the Agera RS,
which in 2017 broke a world record,
achieving a speed of 277.9 mph.
- We've redesigned, basically, every element of the car
starting with the very heart of the car
or the center of the car,
which is the carbon-fiber tub.
The tub in this car is 40 mm longer. It's 22 mm taller.
It gives us a 40 mm-longer wheel base
and closer to 30 mm of more headroom.
So it's a bigger car in every respect.
Obviously, the visual design is different,
and every panel is different,
but even the way we put those panels together is different.
We now have a two-section front bumper
and a two-section rear clamshell,
which makes it a bit easier
if there are any repairs to be done.
It's also easier to manufacture.
The engine on the car has been redesigned.
We've got several new elements in the engine.
We've got new con-rods, a new crankshaft.
We're running with bigger turbos,
and we've designed an air injection system for the turbos
to eliminate the turbo lag.
There are a number of new design elements
that have pushed the horsepower limit even further.
So we're now making 1,280 horsepower on this car
versus 1,160 in the RS and 1,600 horsepower on E85,
which is up from 1,340 in the RS.
So we tried to push absolutely every element of this car.
The version that you see here is a track setup for the car.
We also have a less aerodynamically aggressive
road version of the car, both of them fully road legal.
But this one that you see here
is specifically set up for the track,
and so that has dominated the design aesthetic,
I guess you would say.
So you've got very aggressive engineering.
We've got the biggest front splitter that we've ever used,
the biggest rear wing that we've ever used,
and a lot of aerodynamic tricks going on there
to maximize the downforce of the car.
So we're looking at
800 kilos of downforce at 250 kmh,
1,000 kilos of downforce at 280 kmh,
and a maximum of 1,400 kilos of downforce.
So the car really has been engineered, in this iteration,
for maximum grip and stability on a race track,
even though it's going to be fully road legal.
But probably the biggest single thing
that we've done on this car is the new gearbox.
So we have a new transmission
that we've developed in-house at Koenigsegg.
We're gonna build it in-house at Koenigsegg.
It's a nine-speed, multiple-clutch transmission.
We're calling it the Light Speed Transmission,
which is reflective of both
the quick gear changes that it does
as well as the size and weight of the unit.
We're down to 20 to 30 milliseconds in gear change times,
which is not unique in the industry.
A lot of other manufacturers have got that as well.
What is unique about this transmission
is that you can change from your current gear
to any other gear in, virtually, what we call light speed,
20 to 30 milliseconds.
The software that monitors the gearbox,
it's tuned to give you the gear
that will give you ultimate power, the most power.
So if you're in seventh gear,
and third or fourth gear is the gear
that's going to give you maximum power,
you can direct the gear shift
to change you direct from seventh down to fourth
rather than go from seventh to sixth to fifth to fourth.
The other aspect of this gearbox
is that it's extremely compact and light in weight.
So a traditional dual-clutch gearbox
can weigh up to 140 kilos, between 120 and 140 kilos.
This gearbox has got an extremely compact footprint,
and that centralizes the weight of the gearbox.
It pushes it more towards the center,
but it's also only 90 kilos,
so we've actually shaved a lot of size
and weight from the transmission.
So we're really excited
about the new transmission in the car.
We've also made new carbon fiber wheels for the car.
It's our third-generation carbon fiber wheel.
The sizes actually got bigger.
We're making a 20-inch wheel at the front
and a 21-inch wheel at the back.
But that 20-inch wheel at the front weighs just 5.9 kilos,
and the 21-inch wheel at the back is only 7.4 kilos.
So, as I said, every aspect of this car
has been redesigned, rethought through,
every aspect examined, and made better.
- Narrator: So how does it reach 300 mph?
- This version that you see here
hasn't been designed to break that record,
but we are doing a second version of this car,
which will not have the same aggressive aerodynamics.
That will be more of a road version, and we do believe,
the calculations tell us, with the increased horsepower,
et cetera, that that car should break 300 miles an hour.
So in terms of things
that we've done to make that possible,
we've got a lot more power in the engines.
So we've made several changes to the engine,
we've changed to a flat-plane V8 crankshaft,
180-degree crankshaft.
It's a lot lighter. It spins a lot faster.
There are other tricks that we've done in the engine.
Basically, we've lifted the output of the engine
on regular gas by 120 horsepower, so this is now making,
on regular pumped gas, 95 pump gas, 1280 horsepower.
On E85, that goes up to 1600 horsepower.
So with a low-drag setup and that much power,
we believe that the car
would be able to hit 300 miles an hour.
So if you like what you see here with this show car,
sadly, you can't have this one. It's just a show car.
It's not a running car, as yet.
It will be soon.
In fact, we only finished it at 3 a.m.
on the day we unveiled it here at the Geneva Motor Show.
- Narrator: Koenigsegg will make
another 125 models of the Jesko
that will be available to buy,
and customers will be able to choose
between the track and high-speed model.
But if you want to secure one,
you're going to need to hurry.
- We've been showing this car in virtual reality form
for about 12 months to customers,
and just based on the virtual reality,
we've got about 90 orders out of 125 that we'll make.
The rest of those, there's a very good chance
they'll be sold by the end of the Geneva show.