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    Holy Shit This Is What Koenigsegg's Record 278 MPH Nevada Speed Run Looked Like Behind The Wheel




    On Saturday, the mad Swedes at Koenigsegg did something truly remarkable: in an Agera RS, a factory driver achieved an average speed of 277.9 mph during two runs on Nevada’s Route 160 between Las Vegas and Pahrump. This may make the Agera RS the world’s fastest street legal production car. Now you can see what those runs looked like from the driver’s perspective.

    The video shows both runs: one with a top speed of about 272 mph, the other way up there at 284 mph. The two speeds were averaged together to get the official time. Throughout the day, the max speed seems to have been 284.3 mph.

    It’s almost terrifying. Even with the straight road and presumably an even grade, I can’t even imagine how close you could come to disaster at that velocity. At the same time, I’m extremely jealous of the pure, unfiltered speed driver Niklas Lilja must have felt. It must have been scary and liberating at the same time.

    Koenigsegg told Jalopnik the run was done on Michelin Pilot Sport Cup 2 tires, the same tires delivered to customers, and that Michelin reps were on-hand to make sure everything went okay.

    We’ll update this post as we get more information, but preliminarily, it looks like the Agera RS is faster than the Bugatti Veyron Super Sport.

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    I bet he wore his brown trousers that day

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    the way that thing accelerates from 200mph is obscene. I watched a video the other day where this thing did a 0-250+mph-0 run in 36 seconds. And by the sounds of it, there's plenty left for a longer top gear

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    Hal.. 12 turbos this bitch has..

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    How many gears and how many used?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Muddy View Post
    Hal.. 12 turbos this bitch has..
    what was that guy's name?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hugh_Janus View Post
    what was that guy's name?
    Wasn't it DarkHumour or something like that?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hugh_Janus View Post
    what was that guy's name?
    Quote Originally Posted by Teh One Who Knocks View Post
    Wasn't it DarkHumour or something like that?
    Aye. that be the fella..

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    Quote Originally Posted by Muddy View Post
    Hal.. 12 turbos this bitch has..
    don't include me with that fuckwit...yes it was DH or Dark Humor. Vel was buddies with him as he was an Aussie I believe.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hal-9000 View Post
    don't include me with that fuckwit...yes it was DH or Dark Humor. Vel was buddies with him as he was an Aussie I believe.
    I just figured you remembered him is all...!

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