Jesko [Official] Koenigsegg Jesko

WBarnes · Apr 11, 2019

It'll do about 300mph mister. I just realised that real cars are actually faster than the Knight Industries Two Thousand now.

mihc · Apr 11, 2019

It's a stunner.

DjordjeC63 · Apr 11, 2019

Once I was in a bar in which, guy that was playing keyboard, was looking almost as same as Christian von Koenisgegg...

WBarnes · Apr 12, 2019

DjordjeC63 said:
Once I was in a bar in which, guy that was playing keyboard, was looking almost as same as Christian von Koenisgegg...

All bald people look the same.

Wait, is that racist?

Centurion · Apr 12, 2019

The rear is something off a speed boat or a glider. It makes the wing of the Senna look pedestrian

A.P. · Apr 12, 2019

It looks amazing when it is outside.

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Centurion · Apr 15, 2019

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Ridiculous complexity is ridiculous.

bmwz4coupe · Apr 15, 2019

Centurion said:
Ridiculous complexity is ridiculous.

That is what I am thinking also, and how will this work in long term / reliability ?

M.N.D · Apr 16, 2019

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Centurion said:
Ridiculous complexity is ridiculous.

bmwz4coupe said:
That is what I am thinking also, and how will this work in long term / reliability ?

I like how small companies like Koenigsegg has the capacity to try new ideas and innovations. The main thing that I like about hypercars or supercars is that they're testbeds for new concepts. Sometimes not all of them seem logical, or they could be too complex, but this it what drives progress.

Regarding the reliability, I would argue that an owner of a car like Koenigsegg won't worry that much about the cost of maintenance in case the car turned out to have mechanical issues, as the ownership of an unusual car like Koenigsegg is a part of an unusual experience.

These cars are not for daily use. Most of them are investments to their owners, and usually, they will be driven for few kilometers or miles while utilizing less than 10% of its potential, before being sold later and making a profit out of it.

bmwz4coupe · Apr 16, 2019

M.N.D said:
I like how small companies like Koenigsegg has the capacity to try new ideas and innovations. The main thing that I like about hypercars or supercars is that they're testbeds for new concepts. Sometimes not all of them seem logical, or they could be too complex, but this it what drives progress.

Regarding the reliability, I would argue that an owner of...

No customer likes to buy things that is not working properly, this is not only a economical issue. Koenigsegg always has new and fancy invents wich I like, but I am also quite a bit sucpicious about how these solutions work. And Koenigsegg doesnt let magazines do proper tests wich doesnt help either. But I guess they are selling enough cars any way so they probably does not care...

Matski · Apr 16, 2019

Centurion said:
Ridiculous complexity is ridiculous.

bmwz4coupe said:
That is what I am thinking also, and how will this work in long term / reliability ?

I don't think that's the case here, or that it should give disproportionate reliability issues. It's existing and proven concepts in a different configuration, no different from moving from an in-line 8v 4 cylinder SOHC NA to a turbocharged 24v DOHC V6.

M.N.D · Apr 16, 2019

bmwz4coupe said:
No customer likes to buy things that is not working properly, this is not only a economical issue.

Correct but in this case, the customers are paying for items that aren't built in a traditional way, so there's a price to pay for getting such items.

bmwz4coupe said:
Koenigsegg always has new and fancy invents wich I like, but I am also quite a bit sucpicious about how these solutions work. And Koenigsegg doesnt let magazines do proper tests wich doesnt help either.

This is part of the innovation process. Not all if these solutions may work properly, but then none of the current successful technologies would be if it wasn't for pioneering some unorthodox idea that gets refined and developed over time.

BMW's i-Drive was heavily criticized back in the early 2000's and almost all the media said that it's unnecessary, yet look at how things have come so far...

Regarding the magazine testing, I'm not reading car magazines as I used to do, a d to some point, I can't say that car magazines are that "neutral" because they're being influenced by car companies to certain degree.

I don't disregard the importance of the car magazines'role, but it's the writer's subjective opinion that'll allow the car to win or lose a comparison. Maybe a long term term test for a car is more useful, but for cars like the Koenigsegg, it doesn't make sense.

bmwz4coupe said:
I guess they are selling enough cars any way so they probably does not care..

An important thing regarding car magazines is that it allows the general public to be aware of cars that are approachable in the real world,which works for the car companies as an advertising platform. For boutique supercar builders, they have a dedicated but small pool of customers that will get their priducts, so they don't need to prove their worth through a test to see how fast their cars can accelerate from 0 to 200 km/h. That's why it's not only Koenigsegg, but almost all of the companies of the same caliber don't provide cars for magazine testing.

This is a hypothesis by me so it's a subjective opinion, and I could be wrong...

Matski said:
I don't think that's the case here, or that it should give disproportionate reliability issues. It's existing and proven concepts in a different configuration, no different from moving from an in-line 8v 4 cylinder SOHC NA to a turbocharged 24v DOHC V6.

I didn't pay much attention to the video si I'll listen to it more carefully later on, but my first impression is that I agree with you that it's more of a clever packaging and a reconfiguration rather than implementing new design from scratch.