Review: The $2.5 Million Koenigsegg Agera R

ACCELERATING FROM a standstill to 186 mph in 14.5 seconds is a fairly kinetic event. Very loud, tunnel vision, urge to pee. One moment the Swedish countryside is just sitting there, looking lovely and serene; the next it’s blowing past you in a violent blur of autumn colors. Herregud! I’ve been pillaged.

The Koenigsegg Agera R, built by an extraordinary man named Christian von Koenigsegg, in Angelholm, Sweden, last year laid waste to a bunch of Guinness production-car records, among them: zero to 186 miles per hour and back to zero in 21.19 seconds.

The very car I’m driving, in fact. And it is, it feels like, a horizontal roller coaster: At rest, the Agera R always seems poised in space, then hit the gas, over the top, and straight down, bang, bang, bang go the gears. A plunging vertigo takes over, a forward free-fall. The momentum builds in inexorable squares of mass and you scream your face off. Welcome to Six Flags Over Sweden.

The Agera R—$2.5 million or so, about 1,000 to 1,140 horsepower (depending on fuel), about 3,200 pounds—continues to crush passengers in excess of 1g of linear acceleration until somewhere north of 100 mph, at which point the car’s aerodynamic shape begins to exert significant downforce (660 pounds at 155 mph). The rate of acceleration levels off but it’s still going upstairs like crazy (124 to 186 mph takes 7 seconds). This is telemetry as pornography...

More here: Review: The $2.5 Million Koenigsegg Agera R - Driver's Seat - WSJ

 

I love the Agera, very elegant and a car not to mess with but I've always wondered what a more aggressive version would look like, as the Zonda did with creating the Zonda R. I can not wait to see some high res images of this car.

 

 

absolutely worst review ever done of the agera r

 

^Um what? this dude is a joy to read

 

^watch.

 

Oh yeah the video sucks..i agree

 

I'm not sure where they got 2.5 million either, its 1.5 million. Also, it has almost 900 (890) ft/lbs of torque, not 800.

 

Agera R starts from about $1.5 million.

Of course, there’s a long list of options to be had, especially now that Koenigsegg is offering customers a range of options through a new bespoke personalization service. Suffice it to say, that $1.5 million starting price can quickly reach the $2-million mark and beyond.

273 mph Koenigsegg Agera R goes on sale in U.S. | Fox News

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Anyway I do not think it reaches $ 2.5 million