Koenigsegg has done it again. And by “done it,” we mean warped the laws of physics until they whimpered for mercy. On August 7, 2025, at Örebro airfield, the Jesko Absolut ripped from 0 to 400 km/h and back to 0 in just 25.21 seconds — a new world record for a fully road-legal, homologated car.
Behind the wheel was factory test driver Markus Lundh, who, one assumes, has ice water in his veins and a healthy disregard for the space-time continuum. The record didn’t just beat Koenigsegg’s own 2024 benchmark — it obliterated it, shaving over 2.5 seconds off the old time. That’s the motorsport equivalent of breaking the 100-meter sprint record by tripping over the finish line… and still winning by a country mile.
What makes this more absurd is the Jesko Absolut in question is the exact same car as last year. No new engine. No aerodynamic surgery. Just a fresh set of brain cells in the form of software updates, charmingly dubbed “Absolut Overdrive”. These tweaks — coming soon to all customer cars — fine-tune the 5.0-liter twin-turbo V8’s conversation with its Light Speed Transmission, plus introduce a witchcraft-grade torque control system that grips like an angry octopus on an espresso binge.
Conditions were hardly perfect. Rain earlier in the day left the airstrip damp, which is like running a 100-meter dash on bubble wrap. But the Jesko Absolut’s absurdly low drag, honed aerodynamics, and cunning traction strategies turned the slick tarmac into a playground.
The stopwatch numbers are ridiculous:
- 0–400–0 km/h: 25.21s
- 0–400 km/h: 16.77s
- 400–0 km/h: 8.44s
- 0–250–0 mph: 25.67s
- 0–250 mph: 17.18s
- 250–0 mph: 8.49s
Christian von Koenigsegg himself summed it up best: achieving this with a rear-wheel-drive combustion car, while annihilating four-wheel-drive electric hypercars in a straight line, is “almost magical.” Almost? Christian, the rest of us call that sorcery.
The run was independently verified by Racelogic, meaning no stopwatch trickery, no downhill runs, and no tailwinds from passing hurricanes. Just Swedish engineering at its most unhinged.
The Koenigsegg Jesko Absolut remains the fastest way to turn fuel into forward motion — and, briefly, into a personal conversation with the fabric of space-time itself.
Source: Koenigsegg