It’s not uncommon for makers of performance cars to make regular improvements to existing cars, often making them faster, quicker and nimbler from one year to the next.
But Koenigsegg is including those latest performance improvements to cars already on the road.
Those performance improvements led to some bonkers numbers at the drag strip.
The Jesko Absolut, driven by factory test driver Markus Lundh, set some new production car records.
The car was able to complete the quarter-mile in 8.54 seconds, coming in at the speed trap doing 305 km/h, the Swedish automaker said.
The half-mile came in at a time of 12.76 seconds with a trap speed of 373 km/h.
The 305-km/h quarter-mile trap speed is a production car record, and the first car, electric or gasoline-burning, to exceed 300 km/h at the quarter-mile mark.
The car also set non-EV production car time records for the quarter-mile and half-mile.
This was on an unprepped surface and with production tires.
What’s more astounding, the car manages those wild speeds with rear-wheel drive, outpacing other cars that benefit from all-wheel-drive traction.
The car already holds the record for the quickest zero to 400 km/h to zero time, managing the feat in 25.21 seconds.
On a previous drag-strip attempt, the Jesko Absolut managed the quarter-mile at a time of 8.88 seconds with a trap speed of 291.03 km/h.
How did the car become quicker?
The car’s hardware is unchanged from before. It still uses the same engine, a twin-turbo 5-litre V8 engine with 1,578 hp when running on E85 biofuel, or 1,262 hp on gasoline.
The improved quickness is all thanks to new software, the automaker said in an Instagram post, and existing cars will get this new software.
“All unlocked by new software, rolling out to the entire Absolut fleet via OTA update,” the post said.
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