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okay Kristen you remember this time last
year just before the Geneva Motor Show I
came to see you in angle home of course
you were putting the finishing touches
to the YESCO but that was the high
downforce track version and corralled me
who said yeah we're gonna do something a
bit more slippery a bit higher top speed
I didn't think it's going to be as
extreme a transformation as this so this
is the YESCO absolute and let's just cut
straight to the chase
yes so if you pull on the numbers
together it will go faster than we ever
want to drive
so we're thinking the performance of the
car will not stop us reaching our
hoped-for records it will be the driver
or the road conditions of something else
not the car but we're talking way way
over 500 kilometers per hour
500 is 310 miles an hour Wow so
simulation it's more than fast enough we
actually don't even want to build
anything faster ever yeah this is the
absolute last and top standpoint you're
limited by the tires you're limited by
location by bravery and by sanity so
what are your friends for verifying or
getting near that yeah
so it's all that process again reaching
out to authorities and police forces
trying to shut down the good road so it
might take a year or two or something
like that that the aim is of course to
prove what the car is capable of and
you're saying this is the fastest car
the Koenigsegg is ever going to produce
full stop we won't go this one your turn
to throw a line under Road car of course
I don't know if we ever make some record
walking death central I don't know but
for for a homo gated Road car this is
actually too fast in a way I mean it's
just because we could that yes and now
it's enough winner so since we last
spoke Bugatti of course did 305 in
shiron soups yes do you recognize that
as a correctly I mean I'm sure they
drove that fast I mean they had
equipment to check it so I mean my
question is I guess is that the speed
the customer cars will have was there
something unique about that car it's
kind of unclear at this point as far as
I'm aware and that's all I guess you
know how much do you care obviously and
Hennessey with this f5 venom the SSC
tuatara both of those targeting at 300
mile an hour top speed how much do you
want to beat them so you care about
being first you know it's always I mean
these magical flat numbers it's always
cool to be first I think you know I
think the tuatara looks extremely
slippery I think of this extreme asleep
I think it has similar drag numbers that
we have but it's all about point is
0.278 something like that which is
amazing for cars like this then then
this of course is a matter from my point
of view are we all pull a homologue
eight is it the customer car spec what
about high speed stability and
drivability and these things I really
don't know but but good for them and
let's see what happens you know right
the absolute just take us through the
differences in the body compared to the
the track orientation yes the most
obvious one is that the rear of the car
is a little bit longer
there is no huge active rear wing we
have these high-speed strikes that we
put started designing to increase high
speed stability even further but
surprisingly the more we played around
with them they started creating vortexes
behind the car to reduce the wake so
without those we're almost 0.29 in drag
but with them were under 0.28 I've never
seen anything that it's inspired by a
fighter jet exactly I mean thing yes I
mean they're very high speed and they
need to be controllable advise it's a
similar need then we have this Li bit
longer more flat section in a very
straight cut off very straight cut off a
dish 300 degree where the dish on that
looks good from where they clip in
exactly that is the same rear wheel as
on the track focus yes cause with
clipped in
dishes so you can actually undo them if
you want and it's only if you want to go
even faster but you can probably break a
record without it either and then this
is smooth it out it relieves pressure
from the wheel but it doesn't give a lot
of extra downforce so the s guy is more
aggressive exactly that's and then then
there is this scoop in the bonnet that's
taken out from the radiator which gives
a lot of downforce but also some drag
without the scoop in the bonnet you can
now put the roof back in there like on
traditional turn xx this is actually an
clickable option in the configuration in
the ESCO so it's not it's it's not like
it's two different cars it's it's a lot
of bodywork changes and suspension
changes they're soft softer Springs
because with less downforce you don't
want as hard Springs
okay so becomes little bit more
comfortable as well and so the engine
just to recap is the five liter
twin-turbo v8 1600 horsepower
correct on e85 yes thank rank yes a nine
speed light speed gearbox your own
design yeah could jump from any kids or
any other correct correct
yeah working me I wasn't raped when you
were over the last time we hadn't
actually driven it yet
now we have several months of testing
and it's just amazing and the
responsiveness of the engine combined
with that gearbox is truly yeah
mind-blowing okay so you said this is an
option on the thing so I'm and now I'm
gonna buy one of these yes because how
many s goes in total coming 2525 and
then it's totally up to the customer
whether they have an absolute or
attractive thanks so you could build 125
of these or 125 of the track versions
it's up to the guts we don't know it
could be 20 or 10 or 50 or 70 do predict
really don't know I don't know because
this looks great
it is a sleek version of sometimes in
this software aerodynamics exercises can
end up looking a bit over the tall ride
excite no styling goes out the window
because it's all about error but this
looks amazing
I'd have one of these good I like it be
fun on track you know with the software
Springs and the less downforce it's
easier on the edge of the grip you can
really power fight it easily it loses
grip sooner but still it's an amazing
track or it still has downforce it's
just not that super stiff suspension and
tons of downforce that makes it
super fast but edgier of course well you
know Christian if you need someone to
help out with that
500 kilometer net you're up for it gear
is always here talk