Driving the car is a twin-turbocharged 5.0-liter V8 and the brand’s light-speed transmission.

The Koenigsegg Jesko Absolut has officially set a new benchmark in high-speed performance, claiming the record for the highest top speed ever achieved in a standing half-mile run. The Jesko is built ...

Today's shop talk centers around a few of the wackiest automotive world records that Guinness has to offer. Whether it's a ...

Three days before that, Koenigsegg set four world records in a single high-speed run with the Jesko Absolut hypercar at an airfield in Örebro, Sweden. In much the same way that McLaughlin-Levrone ...

The Jesko Absolut is the unbelievably fast hypercar that CvK (that’s Christian von Koenigsegg) turned into the yardstick by which all ultimate-performance automobiles will be measured for a long ...

More specifically, the Swedish hypercar marque hired driver Markus Lundh to take its new Jesko Absolut up to those jaw-dropping speeds, as part of an effort to better the record it’d set in 2023 ...

On the run, the Jesko Absolut, which was piloted by Koenigsegg test driver Markus Lundh, went from zero to 400 km/h, or 249 mph, and back to zero in just 27.83 seconds. That beat the previous mark ...

Koenigsegg has been racing to uncover an issue with its multi-million-dollar Jesko hypercar after one burst into flames in Greece last month. Now, the Swedish automaker has reportedly uncovered ...

Koenigsegg is known for its hypercars’ performance, and the Jesko Absolut is the Swedish automaker’s pinnacle vehicle. Powering the Jesko Absolut is a 5.0-liter twin-turbo V8, producing 1,280 ...

A Koenigsegg Jesko Attack “Nür Edition”—a somehow even more extreme version of what was already one of the world’s wildest performance cars—cooked down to a heap of hot trash on the ...