Koenigsegg Jesko Absolut Sets Four New Performance World Records

[Famine]

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Koenigsegg Jesko Absolut Sets Four New Performance World Records​

Koenigsegg has once again moved the bar on car performance world records, beating its own markers in four different acceleration and deceleration metrics...

 

[danimac]

Can it please come to GT 😅

 

[Mickeman]

Congratulations Koenigsegg! In every game but Greed Borismo due to Kaz cozy relationship with rival Bugatti.

 

[Eunos_Cosmo]

Lowered the bar?

 

[Famine]

Lowered the bar?

I'll change it to "moved" for you

 

[forzaturismo]

Can it please come to GT 😅

YESSS it ll be in the GT future Update for sure

 

[TheCracker]

Is one of the records for zero - crispy or is that just for the regular Jesko?

 

[SnakeOfBacon]

YESSS it ll be in the GT future Update for sure

I'm not so sure... according to the GT movie, Koenigseggs are for villains.

 

[eran0004]

Congratulations Koenigsegg! In every game but Greed Borismo due to Kaz cozy relationship with rival Bugatti.

Which explains why Ferrari, McLaren, Lamborghini and Pagani are absent as well.

 

[Eunos_Cosmo]

I'll change it to "moved" for you

 

[Ande3200]

Koenigsegg make such nice hyper cars.

Would love to see this brand added to gran turismo at some point.

 

[Ryan81]

I have a sneaky suspicion it won't. Not sure why.

 

[Ande3200]

I have a sneaky suspicion it won't. Not sure why.

I dont expect it at least not until gt8

 

[AudiMan2011]

Your move, Rimac.

 

[Coquico]

Airport car. Boring.

 

[Minty]

This is the second or third time Koenigsegg has done something like this just after Bugatti grabbed headlines. The Tourbillon was only revealed two weeks ago and this is Koenigsegg's first upload since November. There's no way they didn't have this video just sitting in the upload queue waiting for a reason to hit post.

If I remember right they did the same thing the first time Bugatti posted the 0-400-0 record, beating it only a month later with the Agera RS. And then Bugatti broke the 300mph barrier a couple years later, and a month later Koenigsegg posted a new 0-400-0 record in the Regera.

 

[ZedNinetySix]

Seeing a pure ICE car with zero gadget fluff beat the Rimac by 2 seconds makes me feel happy.
Less is more.

 

[Strittan]

9-speed. LMAO, this is even more embarrassing than that new Bugatti.

 

[matrix_gt1]

9-speed. LMAO, this is even more embarrassing than that new Bugatti.

I mean, it broke world records using the 9-speed. Don't see how that could be embarrassing.

 

[Strittan]

I mean, it broke world records using the 9-speed. Don't see how that could be embarrassing.

It’s embarrassing in the sense that no one needs 9 gears in a car. Also, how would it be slower or worse with an 8-speed? And what’s with the top speed craze anyway? I don’t get it. Top speed does in no way indicate how good a car is in my book.

I wonder why Kawasaki decided 6 gears is enough for the Ninja H2R, but supercars need 8 or even 9 gears for whatever reason these days?