It seems the craziest stuff Koenigsegg invents is actually ways to remove and simplify things. No camshafts in an engine. No transmission in a car. Just like Saitama reducing the complexity of his fights to a single punch. Also they’re both bald.

It needs it because at low rpm it’d be making relatively mild amounts of power. And low rpm in a single speed Regera geared for 250mph is basically anything under 100 mph.

Someone else posted a dyno chart for the engine. Even with combined output from the electric motors adding lots of torque at low rpm, it’d be struggling to make more than 400hp at 60 mph. Without the electric motors, it really would be the exact same thing as taking an Agera R and only ever driving it in 7th gear.

Yeah, it’s pretty obvious that a multi-speed transmission was ditched only for reasons of weight and complexity because a single ratio that still allows a 250 mph top speed is akin to forcing a car to only drive around in 6th or 7th gear.

Even Koenigsegg’s most brilliant of V8s still won’t be making much power at low rpm (though with the right sized turbos it’d be making plenty of torque), since power relies on rpm too. The engine itself will only see its peak of ~1100hp at the car’s 250mph top speed because of the single ratio gearing. Heck, if it…

I still think massively huge grilles are ugly on most of the cars they are on (especially if full of black plastic or all chromed out like this), so they are the few exceptions I can think of where slapping a front license plate somewhere in the middle of that actually makes it an aesthetic improvement by breaking up…

The RC-F is a higher strung engine that relies on higher revs to make power, while the Challenger produces ample torque and power from lower in the rev range. Of course it’s only natural that a 7000+ rpm DOHC V8 make more power per displacement than a 6000 rpm pushrod V8, but in the end hp/L is an utterly useless…

I’m hoping the car’s at least lightweight, or at the very least only moderately heavy. It looks decent, but Lexus already makes a coupe with that engine, the RC-F, which is unfortunately too much of a barge to be a threat to the M4, ATS-V, or C63 in that class. I do like Lexus sticking with a rev-happy V8 but it’s…

I always thought the Huayra was too bloated looking and blunt-nosed in the front, especially compared to the pointier and leaner Zonda. This front end really helps fix things with that huge raked splitter.

I think it’s because it looks kinda tacked-on and doesn’t flow with the design elements of the car. Doesn’t look all that bad by itself, and it helps knowing that on something like a Pagani it’s 100% functional and was probably chosen because it’s somehow lighter/stronger/more effective than a more conventional wing.

Sure, giving a Huayra 75 more hp and shaving 50kg is aesthetic, but when Ferrari adds just 30hp and shaves 50kg off a 458 to make a Speciale it’s a whole new level of “real” tuning? You make no sense.

Maybe it simply feels a lot slower than it actually is?

Evangelion themed stuff like this is amazing. Everything looks good in Unit 01’s color schemes, and it’s instantly recognizable to fans without being as tacky as most itasha cars tend to look like with their owner’s waifu splayed out on every available panel. That being said, I’d still rock the Haruhimobile too.

Nah I think it’s electric.

Actually, the Z/28 actually has slightly less of its weight over the front suspension compared to the GT350R, 53% vs 54% according to Motor Trend. And for the record, an LS7 is still a small block technically, and it is only about 430lb, or approximately equal to Ford’s 5.0L Coyote. Suffice to say the reason for the…

Then why did the GT350R’s equally wide 305mm fronts have much better steering feedback? I think it was even said in other reviews that the stickier and wider tires on the R gave better feedback than the regular GT350.

Well, only one car so far has actually come face to face with the sound barrier (Thrust SSC), and it really didn’t seem to have much aero at all. Extremely streamlined, it’s basically a pointy big dart strapped to two ginormous jets. But little in the way of actual aero other than a stabilizing fin.

The Viper sure isn’t slower than anything else in its class, in the right hands it’d handily beat all the above-mentioned cars short of a Z06 on a track, and beating the Z06 is what the ACR is for. Of course, the average customer isn’t necessarily a hardcore track-demon themselves so I agree it’s not going to attract…

Surprisingly it’s only 1 mpg lower than an automatic Z06.

That’s not to discredit the current Viper even in standard form, the previous ACR was just really fast and made more than double the downforce of any new Viper barring the new ACR.