You're Cars Fast When You Have To Rent A Road To Test It

Here's What Koenigsegg Learned From Its Record 278 MPH Nevada Speed Run

Here’s more from Koenigsegg speaking to Driving:

“We were just about finished building his car, and he said ‘I want to see how fast this goes.’ Well, we don’t have a track long enough to do that; I told him any test track is too short, you’d have to shut down a whole road. And he managed to do that.

“So when we heard he had achieved that, we thought we’d better help out, because it’s uncharted territory, and it’s dangerous. We’ve never even driven that fast, so we wanted to be part of it, analyze it, and make sure it was done as safely as possible and that we got as much data out of it as possible.”

Koenigsegg said the company has since been able to introduce a new aerodynamic setting that tunes the ride height, wing angle, shock absorbers and other active aerodynamic features of the car for driving at the limit based on the real-world information it now has. You know, just in case you ever find yourself nearing 280 mph again.

Koenigsegg also said the 1,160 horsepower 5.0-liter twin-turbo V8 Agera RS could go faster with a change to the rev-limiter after the factory driver behind the record-setting car reached it on one of the runs. The car hit a reported max speed of 284.3 mph.

(Jalopnik.com)

I Need To Drive The Other Nevada Speedway

A Nevada Highway Is Shutting Down For Koenigsegg's Attempt At A Speed Record

If you live in Nevada and were planning on using Route 160 between Las Vegas and Pahrump this weekend, TOO BAD. Important things are happening that trump your need to buy groceries or go to the hospital or whatever. Koenigsegg, the hypercar company owned by a Swedish scientist from the future, is using a section of that highway for a record speed run.

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Way To Finally Take That 'L', Nevada

Nevada Is Done With Faraday Future As Car Startup Gives Back Taxpayer Money

Last winter, Faraday Future came out of nowhere with big promises to upend the auto industry and redefine the entire idea of how we get around. None of that has happened because making cars is hard. Now, a tax deal between the state of Nevada and FF is officially over, and the would-be automaker has handed back all the incentive money it got from the state.

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Nevada's Looking Like It Got Played Big Time

Nevada State Treasurer Worried Over Faraday Future Factory Funding In China

Faraday Future has made a lot of wild claims, but does it really have what it takes to be the next Tesla? Nevada’s state treasurer went to China last week to meet with Leshi, the parent company of Faraday Future, over concerns with the company delaying its promised $1 billion in investment funding for a new manufacturing facility.

Late last year the Nevada’s state legislature held an emergency meeting to secure Faraday Future’s plans for constructing an automotive manufacturing facility. Following the company’s reveal of Big Ideas and an imaginary supercar concept at CES, plans for breaking ground on the factory in late January were apparently delayed as a result of Faraday Future’s Chinese parent company Leshi temporarily backing out of the Chinese stock exchange.

According to KUNR, Reno’s local NPR radio station, Nevada Treasurer Dan Schwartz traveled to China last week to confront parent company Leshi and investor Jia Yueting over the $1 billion in investment financing for the Nevada factory. Schwartz is holding off on $175 million in state bonds to help finance the factory until it is assured that the promised investment amount from Yueting is set aside for Nevada.

(Jalopnik.com)