Posted on 11/07/2017 5:07:42 AM PST by simpson96
The world of cars has a new top trump after the Koenigsegg Agera RS smashed the record for the world's fastest production car.
The Swedish car maker snatched the crown off French powerhouse Bugatti on Saturday with two blistering speed runs down a highway in Nevada.
The Agera RS clocked an average speed of 277.9mph over the two runs, easily beating the 2010 record of 267.8mph that was set by a Bugatti Veyron Super Sport
On its first run the Koenigsegg registered a top speed of 271.2mph, beating the Veyron even while battling an incline and oncoming winds.
During the second run - going slightly downhill and with a favourable tailwind - the car clocked a top speed of 284.5mph, the fastest a production car has ever gone.
The record is then an average of both speeds, to negate the effect of things like incline and wind speed.
Koenigsegg's record is particularly impressive because it was completed not only in a production car, but down a section of public highway using 'standard' tyres.
The owner of the Agera had used his connection in the film industry to convince Nevada authorities to shut down an 11-mile stretch of Highway 106, which runs between Las Vegas and the town of Pahrump, Top Gear reports.
The test was then carried out using Michelin Pilot Sport Cup 2 tyres which are the tyres the Koenigsegg is sold with and are authorised for use on the road.
Worryingly, they are only guaranteed by Michelin up to 186mph, though Koenigsegg engineers were confident they would survive an extra 100mph on top of that.
Factory driver Niklas Lilja, who completed the run, said: 'I wasn't nervous. The only hesitation was over the tyres, as you always know that something could happen.
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If it can hold enough kilos, it could be the car of choice for those who like traveling between Miami and New York several times a week.
Over $2 million.
What do you think they'd give me on my '00 Mazda 626 V6?
Carbon fiber abounds . . . even to being the material used for the 5-spoke wheels. $$$$$$
What is the mileage?
(We put 426,000 on a '90 626 before a driver pulling out in front of me from a side road totaled it.)
OK but I’m still saving my penny jar for one of the 500 Bugatti Chiron! Almost there!
Millions of dollars wasted on something that has no use.
My goal is to own a Bentley.
Yes, but does it have a cup holder?
Yew got a hemi in that?
Watch the video....
Reminded me of the old Commander Cody song Hot Rod Lincoln, “lines on the road looked like dots”.
Yes they do at 280 MPH.
I’ve been on that road ...but well under 80 mph...
Isn’t this an area for roadrunners?
Beep-beep your a$$!
“I want one.”
People are free to do whatever they want with their money and it beneficially plows right back into the economy regardless of the mis-judgements of SJW’s (the Left’s version of Jacobin Reign of Terror)
You say “millions of dollars”? Who’s the greatest waster of OTHER PEOPLE’S money of ALL TIME? Try Government’s TRILLIONS of dollars. GOVERNMENT wastes more OF YOUR money that they forced from you ON THE STUPIDEST STUFF IN THE WORLD, mainly corrupt politicians own corrupt lifestyle, in a MONTH than these guys could ever waste in a lifetime.
Freedom beats SJW b/s like a drum.
I hit 95mph in my ‘90 Toyota Tercel back in summer 1998 along that stretch. I would have pushed it past 100 but was afraid my car would become airborne!
I believe my young daughter drove that fast once in a PT Cruiser, with me putting my feet through the floor and holes in the dash from my fingers.
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