Tag: One:1

I’ve never met him, but I’m pretty sure Christian von Koenigsegg is a cool guy.  He made his own supercar company and he’s been nice enough to allow /DRIVE full video access to his Swedish factory. His firm’s creations are another story.  Their numbers are absolutely red-hot.  Especially those of the One:1: 1,360 horsepower and […] More »

United States customers have only had the option of one Swedish automaker in the past few years: Volvo.  Don’t get me wrong – I’m sure they’re wonderful cars.  Colin Powell certainly thinks so.  But they’re not quite as sporty as Saabs. And nothing is as balls-to-the-wall insane as a Koenigsegg.  Not even this yellow fellow. […] More »

For all of the young-at-heart out there, I recommend paying a visit to a LEGO store.  Not only does they have tons of killer sets (my favorites are from the City line), but it also has thousands of individual bricks available.  You get to see completed and disintegrated parts of the LEGO universe. Consider the […] More »

Have you ever had a group project that you needed to get done in a very short amount of time?  Me, too.  But they weren’t nearly as engaging or rewarding as the one Koenigsegg’s engineers had in front of them before the Geneva Motor Show.  They needed to finish building the “One:1”: a 1,360-horsepower, 1,360-kilogram […] More »

 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 »

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 »