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well this is a bit of a weird one isn't
it you've probably heard that the Geneva
Motor Show has been cancelled since the
Swiss government banned events of a
thousand people or more and yet here we
are inside the stripped out largely
abandoned Hall this place should be
teeming with sweaty slightly
stressed-out people in suits and yet it
isn't
we heard that Koenigsegg still wanted to
do its big reveal from its show stand so
we said can we come along and they said
yes and this is what we're here to see a
new breed of Koenigsegg it's called the
Jumeirah and it is quite simply a
four-seat hypercar hypercar performance
but with cupholders and heated seats and
it's real they're gonna make 300 of
these and this is the finished
production machine and it's fast as
you'd expect really fast
it's got 1,700 horsepower but it's a
plug-in hybrid it'll be 30 miles on
electric power alone
the electricity part contributes about
1,100 horsepower to motors on the back
axle another one on the crankshaft the
combustion part comes from get this a
three cylinder two litre twin-turbo dry
sump three valve engine betwee cylinder
engine producing 600 horsepower that's
200 horsepower per cylinder mind
officially bone in fact it's probably
only one man in the entire world that
actually understands truly understands
how this car works and why it exists and
it's the boss man himself Christian von
Koenigsegg
Christian thank you for having us along
to the Koenigsegg Motor Show well thank
you for coming to mayhem
you know it's falling apart around us
but we built our own little fence here
and pretend like nothing happened yeah
yeah so sorry for the noises in the
background but it is they're literally
stripping out the show everything is
falling down as we speak but wow look at
this how long you been keeping this so
the idea started back in 2003 we had our
first sound in 2001 and I started
thinking how do I get the family on
board and do I have to dilute the like
super car mega car idea if we have more
seats so I actually started making
seating bucks and things back then but
the timing wasn't right we were too
small the technology to package
everything wasn't really there so we had
like two or three almost starts over the
years but then two years ago I said now
we're gonna do it tell us about the name
Jumeirah what's it mean yes so we were
of course thinking about what should we
call the car and we were having a family
dinner with my parents and my mother
came up with the name usually we try to
do something Swedish GE is to give in
Swedish and Mira is more so to give more
you get more seats to get more space you
get more you can share the excitement
it's more excitement and hopefully very
little drawback you know all right we're
speaking of excitement take us through
the end the power train first first of
all it is a mid-engine combustion car so
it's in my mind it's a proper like
traditional concept of a make or you
have the combustor and in the middle you
have the the mid-engine look but then
there are some tricks to this then it's
only a three cylinder but it's got our
unique free valve technology that really
transformed the way the engine can
respond and sound and how it can run in
this case a twin-turbo setup in
sequential ways with the use of these
free valves so we have 400 Newton meters
of torque at 1,700 rpm from a three
cylinder but still eight eight and a
half and and we have 600 Newton meters
over a broad rev range and we have 600
horsepower and the engine only weighs 70
kilos so it was four I think in this
modern environment of downsizing and
being frugal and being able to run or
CEO
to fuels I mean this engine is designed
for biofuels for solar fuels you can run
it in worst-case on petrol you have this
flex fuel capability but that's not the
idea it's like running an Eevee on coal
power that from a coal plant you can do
it but you should but also for packaging
is you know you need to get these two
rows of seats you need to get the engine
in you need electric motors and Electr
so it needed to be tiny yeah and we
actually have a prop shaft going from
the combustion end into the front wheels
so it's mid-engine front wheel drives
with the help of our direct drive system
so you let you motor this on the
crankshaft
you got the three cylinder engine the
motor on the crank Charlotte yes it's a
total of a thousand horsepower faster
new to me just on the front and then two
more yeah what one one 500 horsepower
electric motor each for each rear wheel
with a thousand Newton meters each and
when you combine all these numbers in in
a speed range we don't top up the power
levels on top of each other you want to
spread them out for tours so if you look
at our curves we have 3,500 Newton
meters of torque and 1700 combined
horsepower so this thing with four-wheel
drive four-wheel torque vectoring my way
four-wheel steering it can do 0 to 60 in
1.9 seconds and top speed is 250 miles
per hour fast enough and it has to range
from a thousand kilometers if you juice
up the battery full that is 50 kilometer
range with only battery it lives under
the front seats okay it's let's say
usable 15 kilowatt hours just give us
the elevator pitch how does free valve
work for a dummy line right so even the
people who are not so versed in
combustion snows knows what a camshaft
looks like it's kind of the little thing
with the tube on top of the valves with
with loops on them pushing the valves up
and down with this place we throw that
away
and then we put actuators over each
valve so we can operate them
individually when we want to open them
how much we want to open and stay open
you know with the camshaft if you would
stay open you wouldn't need to have a
square capture profile and it would jump
off of the corners of the of
the cam so here but as we don't have
that we can stay open and wait for the
piston and then go back we're open half
and completely individual so when you
have four valves in one cylinder
normally the camshaft you open those two
you close those two a so here we can
just play different heights not opening
this one only open for one turbo open
for two turbos we throttle inside the
cylinder from one combustion cycle to
another we can go for minimum power to
maximum
there is no gasping there is no feeling
of air into air intakes everything
happens live in the combustion chamber
and then most efficient way possible so
we even use a I we work together with a
company in Austin Texas so we have AI
controlled for the any because it's so
complex otherwise we just pop the head
so you can take a look at the end I'm
sure that because of course if this was
straight six yeah I will be back here oh
yeah exactly so we used that space for
something else yes it needs you
personalized luggage with the names of
your family yeah so one in the front
three in the in the rear full-size
carry-ons yeah so I mean we're working
heavily with the Akrapovic on this
titanium exorcist to make this three
cylinder sound proper interesting noise
exactly and I've been listening on three
little cylinders for a year now to try
to make up my mind and and what's
different with this one it's a very big
one normally a threesome is like a 1
liter engine this is a truly
so we have similar sized Pistons and
stroke and born like in our v8 so every
combustion is big but it's just fewer on
them yeah but we can even run two-stroke
with this in certain rpm range and then
it sounds like a straight-6 yeah and you
can really play with the free valves and
the titanium exhaust and some echoing
effect so it will have a very unique
sound but a big sound it's not like a
silly tiny thing let's talk about the
way this car lifts straight away notice
it's true we tricked the eye a little
bit everything is blown up
proportionally so we have 22 inch wheels
the largest carbon fiber wheels 21 inch
in the front so they are bigger and then
there is no handle on the door like we
normally don't have so there is no like
human size component that you can refer
to the size of the car so if you take it
like a normal comes in and press like a
large by 1.25 percent here it becomes
this
reeks of you you said look I won them on
the four seater but it has to have one
door of course no b-pillar so so you're
this was a nightmare
so the the him she's very beefy it's
actually hollow steel now instead of
aluminium because it needed that
stiffness and then it's a lot of carbon
fiber reinforcements in the door but the
twisted part which is our new pattern is
but by not adding any component so we
did it first for the ESCO we kind of
bent around the parts in cad and
suddenly we got another feature that the
door doesn't not only swing out and
rotate it also swings upwards so you can
clear all the curves and also the large
roof structure gives a lot of rigidity
so this is what as far as we're aware
it's the stiffest four seater car on the
planet from axle to axle it's 40,000
Newton metres per degrees difference
yeah so that's the advantage of smaller
battery pack super efficient small
combustion and you with a lot of power
so our aim is 1880 acre brake with
almost a full tank of fuel and that with
this kind of performance power level in
range if this was pure electric our
calculation says like 2.3 tones maybe so
that that is the advantage apart from if
you like sound so you're pre-empting my
question is why didn't you just make it
an election that's the least we can make
it lighter for the same type of power
and size but of course performance
becomes also better because when it's
lighter breaking against better
cornering becomes better and I
saturation better
how great do you want to feel when it's
like over yours this thing here will be
Wireless phone shot and then you have
eight cupholders yeah one hot and one
cold for each person they will be a
little bit bigger in the in the finally
we actually put a Peltier element in
between the front and rear cupholders on
each side so when one holder gets hot
the other gets cold from the Peltier
effect so you can keep your milkshake
going there for an hour or two and watch
Netflix
the travel at 400 km/h big screen in the
back big screen in the front you're
saying it's it's a you're not a second
class no if you're in the back I
envision this car like of course we'll
see if that ever happens but someone
driving up to the Oscars gala there is
the red carpet there and a star clamps
out from the back there is no folding of
seats or past a b-pillar you walk out
kind of gracefully as well as you were
sitting in the front I think it's that
simple
it is a mega car a Koenigsegg mega car
with two more seats and of course there
is no bracket in the industry for this I
mean the most extreme luxury or
expensive 4c tricky here is the
rolls-royce this this has nothing to do
with the rolls-royce it's a completely
different experience we kind of saw it
as a whole in the marketplace I built it
because I wanted it personally and this
is my type of car and it didn't exist
okay so you're gonna build 300 of these
cars that's it is a new benchmark for us
I mean we did 80 of the regular that
sold out quicker than we thought so we
raised the bar with the ESCO said let's
try from 25 that went in a few days that
was last year and this is a little bit
more of the family corner so on so it
comes in at a slightly lower price
bracket and you know in order to make
the noises like yeah I can but in order
to make that work we need a little bit
higher volume so I think the new
marketplace is a unique segment is
slightly lower but still expensive price
makes it possible so in in u.s. dollar
land that they start out like in that
region they start at one point seven
point seven okay still very expensive
still very expensive but but you get the
same but with two more seats Jumeirah
Jumeirah that's very
well I can confidently say it's the star
of the show oh I think I believe you
thanks Christian yeah thanks