277 mph in the Nevada Desert -

This car is systematic, hyyydromatic...why it's greased lightning!
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I'm not sure if a $2MM one of 500 is a "production car" , but this puppy does fly. Longish. Interesting tech detail:

After all, the Agera RS has been available since 2015. The car that set the record is a true production vehicle, so in theory Koenigsegg could have set the record back then. But it was only within the past six months that Michelin began working directly with Koenigsegg to go for a moon shot.

“Tires are critical when you’re talking about a high-speed run like this—they are the potential weak link,” Wade said. “If anything should go wrong with a tire, you’ve got a potentially fatal situation, to be honest.”

For instance, that tiny valve stem where you put air into the tires on your 911 weighs 30 grams when you hold it in your hand. That’s about equal to a pair of Ray-Ban sunglasses. But when it’s rotating at 450 km/hour, it weighs closer to 170 kilograms, or 375 pounds, he said. That’s enough to affect the handling of the car or do serious damage as a flying object should anything go wrong.

“It’s the centrifugal force,” Wade said. “So we had to rotate a wheel with that part in to make sure it would hold up. This hadn’t been done before, so we had to make sure. Luckily, it passed with flying colors.”


https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles ... s-agera-rs

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wonder what type of fuel that used -there a special mixture im sure.
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Just uses racing fuel.
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