UPDATE – Round Seven Winner: Aventador! Ah yes… March. I’ve never been one to pay much attention to March madness, when it comes to college basketball, but I do like the idea of a good tournament. So instead of blathering on-and-on about basketball on a car site, we’re doing our own little battle Royale throughout the month […] More »

Outrageously powerful cars are almost always cool, but not all of them are interesting. Christian von Koenigsegg’s newest example of rolling hyperbole is both. This car is so over the top, it doesn’t just make 1,341 horsepower.  It generates one megawatt. Maximum torque from the revised twin-turbo 5.0-liter V8 is 1,011 pound-feet.  And that’s without […] More »

When Rob Ferretti is not showing internet surfers what it’s like to own a Ferrari 360, he’s sharing information and footage about other awesome exotics. And cars don’t get much more awesome or exotic than the all-carbon-fiber Koenigsegg Agera R.  Top speed of 273 miles per hour.  One thousand, one hundred and forty horsepower from […] More »

Usually, a score of one to one is boring.  Nobody’s winning.  In Swedish, when spoken by Koenigsegg Automotive AB, it translates to “one horsepower per one kilogram of weight.”  And not just dry weight, either.  Christian von Koenigsegg, the founder of the eponymous firm, said his upcoming gut punch to competitors in the hypercar realm […] More »

If you ever get the chance to wring out the 1,140-horsepower Koenigsegg Agera R, be sure you take some downers before you strap in.  The driver in the video below must have been on some horse tranqs in order to drive like that and not need new underwear afterward. superspeedersRob seems to be a Bugatti […] More »

Christian von Koenigsegg is working on his next low-flying cruise missile. It’s called the Koenigsegg One:1, and is named after the car’s weight-to-power ratio of one kilogram per horsepower. The One:1 will have 1,400 horsepower and weigh only 1,400 kilograms, or 3,086 lbs. I should add, that’s the hypercar’s wet weight — the weight with […] More »

When you are attending a motorsports event, always make sure you have proper barriers between yourself and the cars on the track. But I wouldn’t even bother attending this kind of event, where idiots with too much money and not enough skill try to show off–with devastating results. At least nineteen were injured, five seriously, […] More »