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Hindustan Times
2 days ago
- Automotive
- Hindustan Times
Koenigsegg Sadair's Spear unveiled with 1,603 bhp. A limited edition, road-legal supercar.
The all-new Koenigsegg Sadair's Spear builds upon the performance of its predecessor, the Jesko. Check Offers Koenigsegg has introduced the Sadair's Spear in its high-performance lineup. Designed with a sharper focus on circuit capability while still being homologated for road use worldwide, the car represents a technical evolution of the Jesko Attack, the company's earlier track-oriented model. Sadair's Spear holds personal significance for Koenigsegg founder Christian von Koenigsegg. It comes from the name of his father's favourite racehorse, ridden in his final race in 1976. The same father-son tribute inspired the naming of the Jesko. Early shakedown runs at Sweden's Gotland Ring circuit suggest the car's upgrades are effective. The Sadair's Spear lapped the track 1.1 seconds faster than the Jesko Attack, enough to set a new record for a Koenigsegg production car. In a typical Koenigsegg fashion, Sadair's Spear builds on past performance milestones without drastically altering the company's overall direction. It's not a revolution, but a clear continuation of Koenigsegg's long-standing formula, extreme engineering, limited production, and singular focus on performance. Koenigsegg Sadair's Spear: Power and weight The car is powered by Koenigsegg's familiar twin-turbocharged V8 engine, producing 1,282 bhp on regular petrol and rising to 1,603 bhp on E85 ethanol blend fuel. These figures are achieved through revised air intake designs and updated engine calibration. The model also sheds about 35 kg compared to the Jesko Attack, thanks to new carbon fibre production techniques, reduced sound insulation, and lighter interior components. This weight reduction helps the Sadair's Spear push its power-to-weight ratio beyond the iconic One:1 benchmark, a target first set by Koenigsegg a decade ago. Also Read : Koenigsegg CC850 debuts with 1,385 hp and a manual gearbox but there's a catch Koenigsegg Sadair's Spear: Specifications Aerodynamic changes are extensive. The car features a top-mounted, dual-blade active rear wing and a slightly extended rear end to improve high-speed stability. At the front, larger canards, updated hood vents with a Gurney flap, and revised wheel arch louvres have been introduced to balance downforce and enhance cooling. Further refinements include newly designed air scoops to improve engine breathing and thermal efficiency, especially during prolonged track sessions. Koenigsegg has also reworked the suspension system, using in-house Triplex dampers and new lightweight springs tailored for track use. Braking is handled by upgraded multi-layer carbon-ceramic discs paired with revised pad materials, while the car rides on wider, specially designed turbine-style carbon fibre wheels and track-focused tyres. Koenigsegg Sadair's Spear: Interior and features The interior sees more functional changes than stylistic ones. A lighter central console, new carbon fibre seats, and optional six-point harnesses (where regulations allow) mark a shift toward serious track use. Weight savings continue here, with a combined 2.6 kg shed from insulation alone. Despite the stripped-down approach, standard equipment includes Koenigsegg's SmartCluster digital dash, SmartCenter infotainment unit, Autoskin opening system, and 360-degree parking view. Koenigsegg Sadair's Spear: Production and Availability Koenigsegg will manufacture only 30 examples of the Sadair's Spear, and all were claimed at a private unveiling event. While the brand hasn't disclosed pricing or delivery timelines, the model is clearly aimed at a very specific type of customer, those wanting maximum track capability without giving up road legality. Check out Upcoming Cars in India 2024, Best SUVs in India. First Published Date: 26 Jun 2025, 19:00 PM IST
Car and Driver
3 days ago
- Automotive
- Car and Driver
View Photos of the Koenigsegg Sadair's Spear
Koenigsegg continues to push the boundaries of how aggressive a road-legal car can be. The Sadair's Spear is its newest example of that, and builds on the outline put forward by the Jesko Attack. Read the Full Story
Yahoo
3 days ago
- Automotive
- Yahoo
Koenigsegg Unveils Sadair's Spear: A Track-Focused Tribute to Racing Heritage
Read the full story on Modern Car Collector Koenigsegg has revealed its latest performance marvel, a new hypercar named Sadair's Spear—a tribute to Jesko von Koenigsegg's final racehorse, Sadair, who ran his last race in 1976. Fittingly, the car named in the stallion's honor is bred for the track but engineered to be road legal worldwide. Described by the Swedish automaker as '100% focused on outstanding track performance,' Sadair's Spear is a radical evolution of the Jesko platform. It arrives with increased power, reduced overall weight, and a sharper aerodynamic profile. Engineers at Koenigsegg have fine-tuned nearly every aspect of the car to meet the demands of serious track driving—without compromising its ability to meet global homologation standards. The chassis receives a major overhaul with a newly calibrated suspension system and upgraded braking components to manage the car's blistering performance. Though specific figures have not yet been released, insiders suggest that Sadair's Spear exceeds the Jesko Attack's already extreme performance envelope. Inside, the cockpit is stripped of non-essential luxury features, instead featuring a lightweight, motorsport-grade interior that aligns with the car's singular purpose: speed and precision on track. Despite this stripped-down aesthetic, the vehicle remains fully road legal, offering owners the rare ability to drive a near-race car to and from the circuit. Koenigsegg has yet to confirm production numbers or pricing, though the model is expected to be built in extremely limited quantities. If history is any guide, Sadair's Spear will quickly become a collector's item among high-performance automotive enthusiasts. With this launch, Koenigsegg continues its tradition of blending cutting-edge engineering with deeply personal storytelling—delivering a vehicle that is not only faster and sharper than anything it has produced before, but also rooted in the legacy of the family name. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter
Yahoo
07-03-2025
- Automotive
- Yahoo
Bugatti Chiron Supersport vs Koenigsegg Jesko Attack in Epic Drag Race Showdown
Read the full story on Modern Car Collector Two of the world's most formidable hypercars, the Bugatti Chiron Super Sport and the Koenigsegg Jesko Attack, recently faced off in an exhilarating drag race. This event showcased a nearly $13 million worth of cutting-edge automotive technology and nearly 3,000 horsepower combined at the starting line. The race featured the Bugatti Chiron Supersport, the iconic successor to the Veyron and known among enthusiasts as one of the fastest hypercars on the market. The Chiron Supersport is equipped with a formidable 8.0-liter, quad-turbocharged W16 engine that produces an astounding 1,600 horsepower and 1,600Nm of torque. This power is distributed through all four wheels via a seven-speed dual-clutch automatic transmission, propelling its 4,300 lbs frame with astonishing speed. Notably, this model comes with a hefty price tag of $7 million. On the other side, the Koenigsegg Jesko Attack brings a different approach to high-speed performance. Designed primarily for dominance on the racetrack, the Jesko Attack sports a more aggressive design compared to the Bugatti. It is powered by a 5.0-liter twin-turbocharged V8, delivering 1,280 horsepower and 1,000Nm of torque to the rear wheels through a sophisticated nine-speed multi-clutch gearbox. The Jesko, which also costs around $7 million, weighs in at only 3,100lbs, giving it a significant weight advantage over its competitor. Despite the power disparity, the lighter Koenigsegg Jesko Attack showcased its capabilities against the more powerful Bugatti. While the Chiron is celebrated for its unparalleled speed and luxury, the Jesko Attack's design optimization for track performance and lighter weight made it a formidable contender in this head-to-head race. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter
Yahoo
06-03-2025
- Automotive
- Yahoo
Koenigsegg's 3 Insane-but-Brilliant Creations Have Basically Reinvented the Supercar
Koenigsegg Automotive has recently been on a world tour of sorts, smashing production car lap records at international race tracks. In December 2024, the Swedish automaker toppled the previous record at the infamous Top Gear test track (a.k.a. the Dunsfold Aerodrome) with its track-focused Jesko Attack supercar. It's just the latest achievement in the trajectory of founder and CEO Christian Von Koenigsegg, who has rapidly become a trailblazer in the automotive space. When he launched the company in 1994, Von Koenigsegg's dream was to create the ultimate no-compromise supercar. And in pursuit, Von Koenigsegg's team has used novel engineering to extract the absolute maximum from every bit of its cars. Being a comparatively low-volume outfit to other legacy supercar brands has allowed Koenigsegg to leave no stone unturned on the engineering front. The automaker has revolutionized almost every major supercar component you can think of, with many head-scratching—albeit impressive—creations, like flex-fuel sensors and its camless 'free valve' engine, along with these three innovations that help power its mega cars into the record books: Koenigsegg's four-seat Gemera hypercar brought unique engineering roadblocks: With four seats and two doors, the automaker wanted the interior to be comfortable and spacious without compromising performance. That necessitated the place for an ultra-lightweight electric motor. The result of Koenigsegg's pursuit is the 'Quark,' a disc-shaped electric motor cranking out 335 hp and 443 ft-lb of torque in a package that weighs just 63 pounds. How did they do that? The Quark combines radial and axial flux motor designs to optimize what Koenigsegg calls the torque-to-power-to-weight ratio. Despite sounding like Star Trek tech, radial designs are more reliable, while axial designs can pack much higher power density in a smaller package; here's expert Sandy Munro going much more in depth on both concepts. Creating the ultralight Quark was no small feat, with Koenigsegg utilizing a strict diet of aerospace- and motorsport-grade materials to maximize strength and minimize mass. The shaft mounted inside the motor is made from 300M steel; thanks to its high tensile strength, the low-alloy steel is often used for landing gear, airframe parts, and high-strength bolts on airplanes. To save weight, the rotor within the core uses Koenigsegg's 'Aircore' hollow carbon fiber technology, the same kind the brand used to create the first set of hollow carbon fiber wheels for a production vehicle. Like many of Koenigsegg's products, the Quark combines special materials and novel engineering to create a pretty incredible byproduct. Modern internal-combustion vehicles use catalytic converters (sometimes called 'cats') to help convert the hydrocarbons produced during internal-combustion into carbon dioxide and water vapor. While that's better for the environment, cats are detrimental to performance, choking up the flow of exhaust gases. Catalytic converters are full of rare earth metals—often platinum, palladium, and rhodium—to facilitate chemical reactions with hydrocarbons, cleaning them up before reaching the tailpipe. The clean up job is a two-step process with a pre-cat and a main cat; the pre-cat is much smaller by design to warm up quickly and reduce emissions when you start your car and the engine is cold. The main cat is much larger to cope with the higher temperatures and emissions when the engine has warmed up into its operating window. These conventional setups struggle as the much smaller pre-cat is redundant once the engine warms up, creating back pressure. This inhibits performance and fuel efficiency, and can even cause the engine to overheat in extreme scenarios. Koenigsegg, then, simply bypassed the pre-cat after the engine warmed up to eliminate back pressure. That's why the initial 'rocket' system used a system of channels that would direct low-pressure exhaust flow (during warm up) to the pre-cat, and high-pressure exhaust flow (post warm-up) to the main cat. Koenigsegg then redesigned its initial technology to use a set of bypass valves in version 2.0. They claim the latest version—patented in 2011—results in a 300 hp gain compared to a conventional setup. For context, that's a hop, skip, and a jump more than the entire power output of my Volkswagen GTI daily driver. Unconventional doors have long been a staple of supercars and hypercars. Mercedes had its gullwing doors, while other brands like Lamborghini have used scissor doors, and McLaren has used butterfly doors. All of these designs look fantastic and open up in their own unique ways, but Koenigsegg wanted to do something completely different: dihedral 'synchro helix' doors. Many of the designs used by other manufacturers looked fantastic, but were incredibly difficult to live with. Supercars often need incredibly large doors to allow plenty of room to get in and out of such a low-slung car. This means they need much more airspace than conventional doors to open properly. They can also often be difficult for occupants to reach after they've cocooned themselves in the car. That's why Koenigsegg created a door that sweeps outward and upward simultaneously, fixing the pitfalls of the previous designs. Its completely over-the-top dihedral synchro helix name sounds much more complicated than it really is. Dihedral refers to an angle formed by two plane faces; a helix, which is inherently synchronous, is a three-dimensional shape with a wire that's wound uniformly around a cylinder or cone. Together, these words define the two-stage motion of the Koenigsegg's doors. We should note that Koenigsegg 'robotized' the door action from its Regera model onward, allowing you to enjoy the beautiful motion at the click of a button. The logical next step for Koenigsegg likely involves its continued involvement with synthetic fuels and possibly more top speed record attempts. For context, the Swedish automaker remains the current record holder in the 0-400-0 kph contest with a time of 18.82 seconds. In the U.S., that's just a sneeze under 250 mph. Koenigsegg has long been a big supporter of synthetic fuels over electrification. If these engineering innovations didn't already blow your mind, engineers have been working to run Koenigsegg's vehicles on a volcano-based biofuel called Vulcanol—possibly the coolest name for a biofuel yet. The technology captures the CO2 emitted from semi-active volcanoes and converts it into methanol viable for internal combustion. 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