Now it's official. The Koenigsegg Agera RS is the fastest production road-legal car in the world. During two runs, in the opposite direction, which must be done due to Guinness requirements, the Agera RS reached an average speed of 444.6 km/h.
The previous record belonged to to Bugatti, who is with his Veyron Super Sport achieved average speed 431 km/h. This was already in 2010, which is just another confirmation of how many years ahead of the others Bugatti was at that time. Koenigsegg is currently the leader, but he is by no means the only one who wanted to break this record. Hennessey with your own Venom F5 predicts that it will reach 301 miles per hour or 484 km/h. Of course, Bugatti will also line up with the current one Chiron.
To successfully set a new record, Koenigsegg Agera RS needed 5-liter bi-turbo 8-cylinder engine with 1360 horsepower and 1371 Nm of torque. Weights only 1295 kilograms, which means it has more horsepower than it has kilograms. The speed between 0 and 240 and again 0 km/h, she reached in total 36.44 seconds. By comparison, the Bugatti Chiron took 5.5 seconds longer than the Agera RS to complete the same maneuver.
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