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World-beating Agera R!

  • Posted by Ed Smith
  • 08.09.11 @ 03:20 PM

Koenigsegg is renowned for producing cars that are up there with Lamborghinis in terms of sheer unbridled power.

Indeed, less than 2 weeks ago, another model apparently battered the competition.

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A statement on Koenigsegg's website read: "Today, 2 September 2011 at 12.08pm, a standard Koenigsegg Agera R took several new production car world records at the Koenigsegg proving ground in Angelholm, Sweden" and that “all results will be submitted to the Guinness Book of Records.”

Records are as follows:
0-300kmh: 14.53 seconds
300-0kmh: 6.66 seconds
0-300-0kmh: 21.19 seconds
0-200mph: 17.68 seconds
200-0mph: 7.28 seconds
0-200-0mph: 24.96 seconds

These figures reflect both phenomenal acceleration and breaking performance. To give you an idea, a 1,200bhp Bugatti Veyron Supersport does 0-200mph in 22.2 seconds.

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Koenigsegg also said that a short film of the record breaking efforts will appear in the coming days.

Meanwhile, you can try and figure out how the Agera R – which we think stands for ‘Ridiculously Fast and Beautiful!’ – didn’t take off on the track!

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