Koenigsegg JESKO ABSOLUT! The FULL STORY: Factory Tour and First Ride | WHERE'S SHMEE Part 26

hi guys i'm shmee hello and welcome back to the channel where you join me for a very exciting day here in angle home sweden the home of koenigsegg to discover all about this the koenigsegg yes go absolute later on i'm going to be hopping on board with company founder christian von koenigsegg to experience what the absolute is all about but before that we're going to head over to the factory which is rapidly expanding the new assembly areas to find out what goes in to making cars like these the two different derivatives of the esco here the esco attack and the esco absolute we're going to explore the new areas quickly expanding see some of the components and what goes in to exactly the process to make this happen while the cars are out here being tested on the airfield on koenigsegg's runway and then i can jump on board in the yes go absolute with christian to find out even more about it this is going to be a good day let's head over to the factory to start with the whole process behind the yes go here we are then at koenigsegg joined by christian good to see you again tim and welcome back to sweden and koenigsegg thank you for having me back and to take us today through the story of jessica absolute but safe to say things here have changed a little bit yes we're pretty much on a construction site and have been so for for the last year or so we're expanding our old hangars behind where we're moving into the last few ones getting more development area there and this is the really the jamira facility new showroom new sales room new office spaces another 11 000 square meters so it's very exciting times a lot of stuff going on for sure and safe to say i think you're now five times larger probably than when i first came to visit exactly i guess but today is about yes go absolute so shall we head inside yeah join me please here we are the showroom yeah so this is uh our small factory showroom and uh here we have a jasco engine this is actually the original show engine back from i think it was 19 when we showed the jessica for the first time it's pretty much uh the same still in production today but the the technology has moved on a little bit from the first test cars we have ion sensing coils on plugs we have slightly different exos manifolds slightly different turbos slightly different alternator so but fundamentally it is the same but of course it's on the inside where it really is different to previous koenigsegg engine says it has a super lightweight 180 degree crankshaft which completely transforms the engine sound into something different and different connecting rod different pistons different camshafts different valves and so on and so on uh and and what is really interesting about it is it doesn't have a flywheel uh as with our transmission uh the the lst transmission the light speed transmission we have all the clutches and and the components inside the gearbox including starter motor and so on that's needed uh for clutching and so on so no flywheel and no clutch so it's the fastest revving engine we have ever heard of or measured ourselves in in responsiveness and you will experience that a little bit today i can't wait to hear it of course you have a lovely regular here as well beautiful beautiful regiera a bit uh inspired by i think our swedish colors so it's uh yeah quite striking specification definitely so i remember many days of seeing cc8s ccr ccxcxr agiras inside here but this is the start we'll head through i think and see more of how all of this happens perfect so here we are what we call hanger one this is kind of where we started out here at the airport building cars and and creating our first production line so here we have the eighth station line where all the regular us and the cars before it went through now we have kind of the last regular chassis being put together and we're emptying it out to get the yes go on the line and you will see the other part of the jasco line at our other facility where we're doing kind of what we call rolling chassis or rolling go carts and this is the first of the production yes ghost that has come to this part of the building this is actually a a pre-runner or a pre-production car kind of flushing through the whole production process um and we have four or five cars following there are actually real customer cars but this is kind of just making sure we have all the processes for the production line working and then it will become a test car after that so in in years prior i remember seeing all those countless cars obviously in this room but the new setup means that the facility we'll visit later is where the early stages of the assembly start for yes so we bombed the monocoque there we put the front subframe the rear subframe the wheels on it it kind of looks like a big large black go-kart then they come in on these two lines with four stations so we can build them in parallel and speed up the production much faster than we could before when these cars are still extremely bespoke and takes thousands of hours to put together so duplication of lines is helpful to get speed because the station time is still kind of slow we're aiming for uh to hit in the summer about a week cycle time so there is a car going out every week from the line wow okay so that's pretty pretty fast for us and the complexity of the car but that's what we're gearing up for but this room has fundamentally been the the place of over 200 cars being assembled now yeah a little bit over 200 absolutely so uh and uh yeah faster and faster still of course extremely labor intensive uh very much relying on the skill set of artisans but but streamlining it so we can get a few more cars out and i suppose an opportunity for us to see a little bit under the skin of yeah half naked i would say and actually this body is not painted uh and we will leave it unpainted uh for since it is a test score for a while at least otherwise it would be painted panels here that you will see on the other line together carbon monocoque with the engine sitting behind [Music] i always find it's amazing to see and to even try and get a small understanding of some of your engineering techniques and technologies yeah it's all uh it's an evolutionary process of refinement and kind of perfecting at a higher and higher level over time making it lighter stronger new materials more 3d printing it's amazing how you always can push it one step further from wherever you're at so [Music] the stiffness the weight the power the downforce the handling of the esco is very recognizable as a koenigsegg but the next level here we are in our engine build room and actually the the new facility we're creating for the jumeirah outside we're going to have three uh triple the size of ngb room because we're also building the tfg there and three new production dyno so we can dyno test three engines in parallel here we only have our small room dyno for the v8 so that will be quite a big expansion and this will be turned into something else because we will also build the v8 engines for the esco in there and here we have uh our assembly room for the lst transmission so uh here is pretty much one transmission in parts and here is one transmission i think almost finalized it was waiting for a few parts lst light speed transmission yes and i guess you have seen a couple of mega hyper car transmissions in your life and and if you compare the size of this especially considering its torque capability of 1500 newton meters of torque and that it's a nine-speed transmission it is super compact yes and and it weighs less than our previous seven speed more amt like single clutch type of transmission so uh and it has an electronic uh hydraulic differential uh inside as well uh and the weight includes the clutch and flywheel and starter motor that you normally would have as the weight on the engine so not only is this lighter with all of that including of course the engine became lighter not having a flywheel a clutch and a starter motor so it's kind of a win-win situation and shifts faster than ever before yeah i mean basically it never shifts it just clutches uh all the shifts are always engaged you're just choosing which pair of clutches to use so you have three times three clutches you do if you imagine a row of three in a row of three and then you can do these together as one gear you can do keep that one under that that's another gear move here and together with this one is another gear so three times three is nine so we only have we only have six gear pairs but we get nine gears out of it through compounding these three times three clutches and it can just instantly jump into whichever gear you need yeah so since we can slip in and out of clutches they're not synchros or dog rings or anything like that you can have like a very good if you have the best kind of dcts yet you don't have any torque dip we can have that from any gear to any gear while a dct can only have no torque dip from the pre-selected gear going from the gear you're in here here basically all nine gears are pre-selected if you just do this or that whatever there is no shifting that's amazing so it's just clutching so yeah the it's kind of our trusted v8 in many ways but very much taken to the next level the machining of the block is slightly different it's got slightly different oil yet coolers it's got slightly different bearings uh the the crankshaft is 180 degrees instead of 90 degrees the new connecting rods new pistons new camshafts new cylinder heads new springs valves pretty much everything is needed but it looks kind of similar but it feels very very different because until this engine all the koenigsegg v8s were more of the traditional v8 sound even though they were very striking koenigsegg sounding i would say uh you could still hear the kind of v8 throwball this is more of a howling howling engine with a higher pitch due to the 180 degree crankshaft and given that there's no flywheel or clutch it revs up like a motorcycle engine or something which is just unbelievable so it's it's kind of exciting how you would quite simple uh mechanics can do so much because it's very puristic this engine doesn't have so many bells and whistles in in in like camshaft timing or so on especially compared to free valve where you can do everything but but with the advanced turbo system with the unique exhaust headers with a patented catalytic converter system and with our very special combustion chamber geometries and intake geometries you can have full worldwide emission homologation with the highest power output of any production engine in the world compared to its displacement apart from the tfg the three cylinder which is at the same level but the esco's producing big power yes yes i mean we're talking of course uh yeah 1600 horsepower so on renewable fuel a little bit less on regular petrol yeah as always with kerning sakes um and that is uh i think uh a good strategy first of all of course we get more we'll get higher octane and more cooling with renewable fuel very cool but it also incentivizes the driver to run more environmentally friendly yes so that's a little bit of an upside yeah so now we're entering what we call hanger two it's not that complicated hanger one hanger two hanger three and hangar four and here this area we're polishing aluminium parts painted parts and of course carbon fiber parts you see seats center consoles steering wheels and we have a little bit of a guide here of different kind of levels of treatment to the carbon fiber this is if they're not clear coated or painted so here is what you get straight out of the tool it's a pretty nice surface it's absolutely fine for i would say maybe a racing car or or a simpler not so refined vehicle would be absolutely fine and then just a quick polish making a little bit shinier but still a little bit rough in the surface and then we have this naked carbon fiber which we call it where we actually sand away all the thin epoxy layer up top and then polish up straight into the carbon so uh what what you when you touch this it's actually colder to the touch because the carbon content on the surface is much higher than than a part out of the tool which has this kind of film of epoxy that comes from the production process so it's lighter but it's also more stretch resistance because epoxy is not as hard as pure carbon and pure carbon is much harder than acrylic which is a clear coat so it's much more scratch resistant it's lighter it's colder to the touch and has this metallic feel there is one big downside of doing this though it's super difficult because if you just sound a little bit too much you break the visual look of the fibers of the first layer of course most panels have more than one layer so it's not that you kind of structurally damage it so much if you have a little bit of a breakthrough because it's mostly the same thickness anyway over a bigger surface but it's it's visually broken and when you have intricate parts like this and you have to kind of sand just the thin microscopic layer of epoxy over and then polish it up without breaking the optics is super difficult and you need to be very skilled and you might ruin a big part you know so it could be very expensive but it's the lightest way uh you can you can surface a carbon fiber part it's one of the most scratch resistant you don't have any uv problem because there is no epoxy on top so we tried this out in the in the in the field behind our building here laying out parts for several years to see how it would uh stand the test of time and we've actually been doing we started doing this on our carbon fiber wheels in 2011 and those cars running around with those wheels still and some of them pretty much on daily driving basis they still look like this so it really really stands the test of time at least for 11 years so far from a surface point of view yeah so here we have our in-house paint shop where we do paint a lot of the cars we also have some great collaborators which help us with painting because at the pace we're going we cannot paint everything in-house but a lot of the elaborate bespoke features and functions we do here as they're quite proprietary here we have like a machining area that we're growing we have a pretty big five-axis cnc machine in here where we can do tooling materials and these are for example for the carbon fiber wheels we do also have a subsidiary in in barcelona with around 40 people with really big cnc machines that are working as part of our composite team here as an extension so we're actually gone a little bit international we're not only in england anymore so that's quite exciting and and yeah we're basically having a lot of different 3d printing apparatuses here uh we're starting to get into 3d printing in metal more and more this is an exhaust housing but also uh that's actually a little koenigsegg there with one of our new newest printers which can print a very high accuracy at extremely small scale i don't know if you can zoom in on it it's quite hard to see so that's the world's smallest kern exec probably which is effectively from here shut down exactly wow exactly and if you look at this one this is actually 3d printed and it's hard to see normally you always have this kind of a rougher grainier surface but this is actually coming out shiny so it's kind of interesting all the details obviously discovering new techniques and ways of doing things exactly so here we have uh composites where we yeah auto clubs so we have we have two water clubs here and then we have also uh three more in barcelona at our facility there um so these have to be large enough for the biggest panels for the rear clam shells monocoques uh wheels uh yeah this one you can fit any kind of koenigsegg park into it's huge yes it's something we actually rebuilt ourselves from uh uh an old tractor tire creation machine from the 60s oh wow okay because the autoclave is really a pr a control pressure chamber with heat and you need some some pipes piping and so on so you can actually rebuild any kind of pressure vessel into an auto club if you can get the right certification so uh we do have some really fancy ones as well but this one is pretty cool because it's it's kind of a bit steampunk old school it works really well and it's very big so here we have a composted layup in here we have the cutting machine for the prepreg and yeah very skilled artisans laying up the carbon fiber carbon fiber crash beams hood panels wings steering wheel seats hollow carbon fiber uh wheels uh yeah basically everything uh that goes into a koenigsegg is made here so this is where you've effectively cnc'd all the prepreg yeah exactly this this uh these uh prepreg parts are cut on the on the table over there and marked with numbers and then you have these layup books so you know which order uh to do it let's see you can see here there are like instructions for layup very traditional paper but it's a nice carbon fiber holder for the paperwork as it should be working through the layers getting the right strength and keeping everything super light exactly and this is what we call hanger three which is our uh prototype area pilot plant area we can say and this was not here when you were here last time actually there was a spitfire in here in the private jet that we managed to persuade they could find some other place to hang out so this is where there are probably plenty of secrets we need to avoid there yes i would say so and you can see up stairs here in the atrium we have our engineering department so we have about close to 160 engineers sitting up there but then we also have them in the other building and in that mezzanine over there and in three months we have a pretty much a copy paste of this area which we call this hanger four which is the last hanger on the row of this street so then we have the whole compound to ourselves and and that is happening very soon and we're very very crowded uh in this area so we very much need more space yeah so this was the first uh uh like uh pre-production jessica we showed about a year ago i took it to the koenigsegg tour in france it's been through the testing phases hot cold climate been to dubai for hot testing it's sister car the black one up here we just had in winter testing in north of sweden and behind that you can see one of the first jamira test cars with all the systems installed so of course the testing process which is what's undergoing at the moment is pretty intensive for something like this you don't just build the first car and hey that's it correct no it's i mean it's it's years of testing and development especially considering the amount of unique componentry we put into our cars there are simpler ways of building fast hyper cars than the principal koenigsegg or that we are using since we want to really push the boundaries and put in next generation never seen before technology and solutions to have a more interesting total package so so we're really making our lives as difficult as possible but as interesting as possible and in order to keep kind of the excitement high and to be able to give our customers something truly unique it's not an it's not a run-of-the-mill product whatsoever of course it's all very much bespoke and i'm pretty detailed i'm sure when it comes to cars like this i mean this is a yes go track and so is the car behind yes but the absolute needs its own testing oh yeah i mean it's very much different because uh with a different uh drag and arrow and practicality reasons and different airflow through the radiators different suspension different tires it's very much a different experience and it needs its own development program to make sure all those aspects are honed in perfectly and also it's incredible high-speed capability of of course a development program in itself so at the moment jamira yeah that's tfg is here in prototyping and testing as well absolutely soon in the future to be in the whole new facility being built just outside that's correct but i mean this is a complete departure from every kind exec model to date really it is very much a ground up new development in every aspect we spoke a bit earlier about the the engine it has some similarities to the v8 in the sense of how we understand combustion and renewable fuels but apart from that it's got of course this free valve technology and uh complete different characteristics uh which is extremely fun to play with this it's really like a such a tight power package i mean to get 600 horsepower out of a carry-on suitcase and 600 newton meters and not that's much more heavier than your carry-on suitcase it's a very exciting challenge and it enables the packaging of the jamira to have this enormous interior space even though it's a mid-engine car you can see the engine is very much in front of the rear wheels anyway you have this enormous space inside which which we pushed so hard for and in the end it became much bigger uh than i had even imagined because we were in cad and in in testing we pushed we can pin that surf we can move that we can lift this up a little bit and still maintain a nice roof line and still have the the sense of the koenigsegg and the sense of a two-seater medium undercover we just kept on expanding and expanding expanding and in the end it just became enormously spacious inside which i think is really what the car is about apart from its absolutely wild performance i was going to say even without the performance it would be something special throw in the fact that it can accelerate quicker than you can blink and uh it's a different machine yeah the performance is is it's unbelievable so it will be so exciting to let people have a go and see what they say for sure for sure looking forward to seeing more of it yeah so this is pretty much the internals of the lst transmission this is a prototype build uh so here you can see some of the clutch packs you can see one two three so you have three there and then you have three in here and then the way you mix and compound these is how you get your nine gears this is the seventh clutch i haven't spoken much about that's for reverse yes but if you have a hybrid car for example you can remove this and then you can reverse electrically yes so this is for a non-hybrid uh application like that like the esco makes sense and it's tiny it's very small and then is this the engine dyno yes so here we have the the prototype engine dyno and i think today we have a jessica engine in the dyno and i hope we can fire it up so you can hear it so this is a production spec engine going through kind of hard testing longevity testing and stuff like that okay and training on servicing aspects every engine gets bench run forever absolutely but not in this time this is development dyno we have a production diner in the other room and then we will have three production dinos in in the new facility as well ready and it's easy to swap this in and out yeah it takes about one hour it's on a trolley and uh outside we have for example the the three cylinder tfg on a trolley so we can basically do an engine swap here in about two hours going from one engine to another and actually behind a couple of meters behind this wall in hangar four we're doing the world's most extreme four-wheel dino for a full car that will be finished in a few months uh so we can go up to a total of i think 3 000 horsepower with four wheel drive torque vectoring and it's also a heat chamber and you can also cool it down okay and uh you can go over 500 kilometers per hour on it with with full power perfect the most extreme one i've ever heard of and it's all custom-made for our needs so it's quite exciting to get that up and running wow sounds pretty amazing so [Music] the sound of power [Music] it's pretty wild it is it shakes the room wow we'll hear it up see what it sounds like in a car well definitely let's head out before we head on though this is all becoming the jamira area yes this is the the new extension for the jumeirah so we will have the jumeirah production in here uh we will have uh three engine dynos for the tfgs and the v8s an engine build area transmission build area all of those kind of things but in in the front of the building there will be a new showroom and a new customer area where you can specify the cars with some new interesting kind of augmented reality things and stuff like that and then a little bit secluded area and then we're also doing a kind of an exhibition area where we can have around 200 people sitting and standing and have presentation car presentations and car unveils factory and then there is office area upstairs and then there is a little restaurant cafeteria area over here as well so this will be converted into kind of a park for employees and people working here and customers and cars mingling we're going to maintain this kind of helicopter pad that's been here since the military days but refine it a little bit and more adapting it for vtol purposes of a more environmental flights and stuff like that yeah and then if i'm right the jumeirahs and the yes goes we'll all arrive for the final pdp pdf yeah so at the at the at that side of the building it will be a pdt area for the whole company for aftermarket for the mirror production for for yes go production and other cars but also taking care of the fleet of the cars that konigs they have and so on so a complete kind of pdt area for everything okay well i think before we head to the airfield in the runway we're gonna go check out the new yes go yeah facility as well absolutely yeah let's go over here we are yeah so this is the rolling chassis line for for the esco and this is in a new facility we acquired last year which we're still kind of getting into we have four ships and this is ship number two and then we have warehouse for yes go and and the the mega car line and then the jumeirah line as well uh a warehouse for that and the pre-production of the chassis over there for the jumeirah but i think we're here for the yes go so let's see the the line of the rolling chassis i mean you have you've expanded to having a significant amount of space now yeah we've gone from being very very cramped to being very very spacious yes it's kind of it was exciting being cramped because you really had to plan your space but it was also annoying when you did not have enough space you had to move around stuff all the time and got inefficiencies from that now we're kind of what are we going to do with all the space sort of thing but i'd rather have a little bit too much than too little and we're filling it up quicker than we thought yes i can believe it well so we can start at the uh yeah at the bottom of the line here where we have the carbon monocoque bonding jig and on the side here we do the the pre-assemblies of front ends and rear ends and door hinges lamps pedal boxes interior parts uprights things like that and then we're feeding that to the main line here but we're starting here at what we call rolling chassis 20 which is the the bonding jig for the carbon fiber monocoque so right now we don't have anything in here but it's kind of bonded in two stages and we're having a uh this line is designed to be able to run a three-day cycle if needed so getting a rolling chassis out every third day we're planning to hit about a week cycle in the middle of summer 2022 and then speeding up at the end of the year to a three-day cycle so here we can see the yes go monocoque being more and more already bonded in these jigs and then they're coming out of this jig into this stage here we can see this one with the dashboard over here develops as we go through yeah and then you start putting equipment in electronics cables and the cables are being manufactured right behind us all the wiring harnesses for the car so that's completely locally produced next to the line of the cars so up to this point i mean you're not yet a specification of the cars or anything like that right so uh on this line the only specification we get is left or right hand drive or let's say europe or u.s differences if there are any um and then when they are on wheels at the end of the line we take them to the to the main production line where all the bespoking happens where the customized bodywork the customized interior uh anything uh custom specific goes into the car and it becomes an individual and the vin number and everything yes so all of the interior trims different paint shop work and that's all happening this stuff under the skin anyway has to be very very similar on each course for home location reasons for crash testing reasons and so on so we kind of divided it a line for where they are very very similar and the final line which is our traditional mega car line at our original hangar where they become unique individuals and koenigsegg cars for the customers that makes sense so what is the finished state of the car the finished stage when it's so it's down here this is getting close to it so it's going to get the engine in here it's going to go down on wheels there is one station after which we haven't reached yet with that one this car here so it's basically like a big black go kart in a sense uh it's you you can fire up the electronics you could fire up the engine pretty much so it's kind of technically uh alive okay and you could go out for a fairly unusual drive almost yeah so even the windshield glass goes in yes yeah yes that's also something that is the same on all the cars yes of course wow this is this is really quite exciting to see i can't imagine for you this must be yeah so we're up and running with a yes ghost production line so it's very exciting times and uh yeah sooner rolling off the line well we shall head i think from here to go and see what one is like when it's rolled off the line yeah that's absolutely let's do that this is a pretty special sight to me too actually it's the first time i see them together here on our beautiful runway in the sunshine it's a special moment the track and the absolute and i tell you what it's fascinating obviously to see these two cars and to see the differences between them because while you might initially just think it's down to with wing or without wing there's actually a lot more to it oh yes thousands of hours in wind tunnels and simulations aerosimulations fine tuning the purpose of this is maximum downforce and it goes together with a chassis it has triplex suspension in the front and in the rear the triplex is active front and rear bump and rebound is active and then you have a hydraulic lifter also on the triplex on the front and the rear on the absolute as you have much less downforce you don't even have a triplex on the front to hold the car up and you don't need it so there we can store the roof in the front still there is no air dam in the front because we don't want the drag or the downforce on that car there and the tires are different the wheels are different the bodywork is completely different the rear end is completely remade to have lower drag and less down force so they're very much fundamentally different but shares yeah the dna of the chassis the engine the interior uh the glass area and so on but otherwise the the feeling of driving them is completely different this is a quite much more comfortable more comfortable car and you can stow uh the roof in the front like on most curing segments well this one you can take it off but you cannot put it in the front so it also has bigger luggage space of course due to that i mean i remember of course because we took a look at the absolute when you introduced it uh just over two years ago now um obviously the rear is a totally different style design replace the wing with these fins the blades that you have over the rear high speed stabilizers and i think i maybe mentioned back then what surprised us about these is that not only do we increase high speed stability with them as they're directing the car they're actually reducing the drag as well which came as a surprise yeah we optimized them to further reduce the drag as they were already starting to do that and for even greater high speed stability then of course this car still has downforce you can see you have this kind of little duck tail here you have a massive venturi underneath with a good venturi effect under the center of the car which is usually difficult with mid engine cars because normally your transaxle transmission sticks out back there so you cannot have a venturi effect on the center and on the center of the venturi tunnel is actually where you get the most effect if you can lift up the tunnel so that is a huge advantage on both cars that the tunnel can do that then we have the dish over the rear wheel you can actually dismount these and the wheel looks similar to to the the attack but this further reduces the drag and increases high speed stability so and it gives a very unique look that goes together with the car this is flattened out to again reduce drag compared to the attack version and around the front big changes the louvers here are again smoothed out and has a little bit less air release and and less disturbance of the flow over the body the front splitter is of course much smaller to give less downforce it doesn't have the the winglet on the side or the big air dam on the center it's actually fascinating to see it's it's it's almost a totally let's say different car but customers have the choice which they they can choose whichever one they want that'll be 120 so the ultimate track weapon or the ultimate road going missile this is still super fun on a track and we will go out on it in it today but it's softer sprung and much less downforce but still a great car on the track and of course given that it has less downforce it's also a little bit let's say more lenient on the limit uh so it's it's fun to power slide around with it and so on and this particular car is getting towards the end of testing yeah so we actually took this out for the first time like two days ago in its finalized form uh and we're just setting it up so it's still kind of some fine tuning going on and you're the very first person to see it together with us out in the open today it's an absolute honour um i suppose if if we can shall we hop on board and let's let's let's do so the auto skin yeah it's always magnificent here we are inside yes go upstairs exactly hit the button the door closes itself on down just like magic so here we have the starting button press to break [Music] here we are it's a completely different sound yes it's instantly much much higher pitch i will just rev it slowly so you can hear it two i'm completely speechless at the moment this sounds incredible sounds absolutely incredible it's just a different experience to to any car we ever built before yes it's just something it just feels like a big go car to me it's it's uh so it's just in the palm of your hand that noise is amazing but so is the g-force meter yeah it's a fun thing it's completely analog it's still being tuned in this car but we can see the weight is moving it so it has no electronics whatsoever it's a little bit like a swiss watch you can say [Music] now i'm pushing one third of the throttle yes you were saying that it's quite a different suspension setup yeah so this one is very comfortable of course you have different uh settings you can lower the car you can start slipping it up but it's it's got a much softer spring ratio because we don't need so hard for for the lower downforce so it still doesn't roll much at all anyway but it's it's very very comfortable on a normal road that's going to save my normal car standards that's that's flat exactly it's extremely flat it's it's it's uh it's a it's a little bit stiffer than every gear actually yeah so and that is a super well handling car it's just that the attack version is insane yes from that perspective but you can also feel when you lift the throttle it's there is not a lot of drag on the car it just rolls because it's so slippery so it's uh yeah made for high speed yeah high speed stability it's very friendly you can take off the roof you can put it in the front you can enjoy the sun for its extreme nature it's very user friendly i tell you what it it still very much feels like a cut exec though it's still very dramatic and exciting as it should be right absolutely i mean that's what it's all about it should go beyond any norman experience uh i mean they're hand built with extreme components and extreme technological solutions so you nearly need to feel that when you drive it i would lift the throttle you'll see how fast it's revving it flies out it's just crazy that's up to the red line quick literally quicker than you can blink it's crazy the fastest revving production engine yep that we ever measured and ever heard of i i i i mean it's kind of it's almost on or off i mean when you go like that it is it's just it's just nuts wow so that makes it really exciting to drive you have that like electric motor combustion engine but no hybrid yeah it's just full traditional combustion traditional in the loosest sense given that the level of engineering is exciting from the future but the way it that i'm that's just that's mega well that was quite something yeah it's uh first time i drive actually this absolute ever personally it's just off the prototype station bill just unteeding it and getting it into his paces and it's very exciting times and uh yeah we'll see what we can do with it so from here it's a couple of months i suppose of testing and yeah yeah absolutely we're going to of course use our test facilities here and the local racetracks and then go further and further into into bigger playing fields well that was absolutely amazing all i can say is thank you so very much for the opportunity my pleasure and thank you for coming to me always so the sound of silence and the auto skin for the doors that's just the cherry on the cake really isn't it yeah it's it's a system that is very lightweight but gives this little extra practicality and and and flair i would say right i think flair is completely it and that's part of what something like this is it's the emotional right as long as it's uh you know you can stand for it from a weight and not over compromising perspective but we really put in an effort to have almost zero negative impact from a weight kind of space perspective but you have the drama and the practicality there so well it's fantastic and the sound is just glorious it's it is something we're very very happy about uh i mean we had high hopes but the way this engine responds and the way it sounds and the way it behaves is just completely unique and super exciting well fantastic thank you so much thanks i suppose we should step on out i have very few words for today thank you so much for showing us around the exciting changes i suppose going on at the factory and the assembly of the escos and today to have experienced absolute i mean exciting times i think for the company we're super excited and thank you tim for coming all the way and so happy to show you what we're up to the next time you come back we will uh we'll let you have a go and see what you think that sounds quite exciting to me to hopefully see you up in full operation with the assembly of customers that's coming on shortly wow thank you so much thanks amazing enjoy the day thank you bye this has been a day of epic proportions to explore at koenigsegg to see the process behind the cars like this of course the epitome of hypercar in fact mega car we haven't gone too much into the technical specifications let's just say these cars are very very fast 1 600 horsepower and in fact on an earlier visit when the esco was originally introduced and again when the absolute was presented christian did a full walk around to show me the cars in detail but today to have experienced a bit of the feeling of the engine the sound of the engine to have seen around the assembly process to have visited the new areas at koenigsegg where these cars are soon going to be going into build for customers what a special opportunity i cannot thank christian for his time and for the whole team for everything they do to make the cars like this it's been 10 years since my first visit here to angle home i think i've probably been about 10 times in the interim always a special place some exceptional cars and what a delight to top it off with a ride on board today fiasco absolute i believe the first time the car has been out so a huge thanks again to christian and the team what a day thank you as always to you guys for your support i hope you've enjoyed the visit today to experience a little bit behind the scenes of what it's all about that's it for this time though thanks for watching and i'll see you again very soon cheers you

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Length: 44min 0sec (2640 seconds)

Published: Thu Apr 28 2022