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Koenigsegg Jesko Absolut: The Fastest Legal Way to Bend Time

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

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Koenigsegg Jesko Absolut and Regera in drag race

In February, the guys from Carwow tested the Koenigsegg Jesko Attack against the Bugatti Chiron Super Sport in a drag race, where it didn’t prove successful. Now they’ve decided to pit it against two of the company’s supercars, the Koenigsegg Regera and the Jesko Absolut.

The Koenigsegg Jesko Absolut is powered by a 5.0-L bi-turbo V8 engine with 1,622 hp (1,209 kW) and 1,106 lb-ft (1,500 Nm) @ 5,100 rpm (on E85). The engine is paired with a 9-speed Koenigsegg Light Speed ​​​​​​Transmission (LST).

The Koenigsegg Regera is powered by a 5.0-L twin-turbo V8 engine combined with three electric motors for a total of 1,500 hp and 2,000 Nm of torque. Power is sent to the rear wheels via a single-speed torque converter gearbox.

Behind the wheel of the Koenigsegg Regera was Markus, who had broken two world records with these two models. Interestingly, the company had never compared these cars. After turning off traction control and stability control, they went to test.

In the first race, the Jesko Absolut had a way better start, leaving the Regera far behind. Then they decided to repeat the race but this time they adjusted the pressure in the Jesko Absolut tires, which this time were even more convincing. At one point, driver Mat Watson said: “This is frickin’ nuts!” They repeated the race two more times but the Jesko Absolut was better each time.

The Jesko Absolut covered the 1/4 mile in 8.9 seconds while the Regera covered the same distance in 10.2 seconds. During the race, the Jesko Absolut accelerated to 60 mph in 2.78 seconds while the Regera reached 60 mph in 3.4 seconds.

Starting from 2nd gear, Jesko showed his strength again and was convincingly faster than Regera. Then Watson decided to start from 4th gear at 80 km/h, Regera held on for a few seconds but after that Jesko drove like a rocket to 1/2 mile.

In the braking test at 60 km/h, Jesko confirmed his dominance in this duel.

Source: Carwow via YouTube