KOENIGSEGG JESKO ABSOLUT SHATTERS THE 0-400-0 KM/H WORLD RECORD… AGAIN. EV FOR WHAT?
There are fast cars, and then there’s Koenigsegg. On 7 August 2025, at the Örebro airfield in Sweden, the Swedish hypercar brand once again proved that its founder, Christian von Koenigsegg, is a man who treats physics as more of a suggestion than a rule. The weapon of choice? The Jesko Absolut - the most slippery, speed-focused creation ever to roll out of Ängelholm. Factory test driver Markus Lundh was the man tasked with pointing this rolling ballistic missile down the runway, and the result was… frankly absurd. From a dead stop, he blasted the Absolut to 400 km/h, then back to zero, in 25.21 seconds flat. That’s not just faster than the company’s own 2024 record - it’s over 2.5 seconds quicker! For reference, most hypercars can barely reach 400 km/h, never mind do it and come to a dead halt before you’ve finished reading this sentence.
The Secret Sauce: “Absolut Overdrive”
The headline change for 2025 isn’t a bigger engine or wild new aerodynamics - it’s brainpower. Koenigsegg’s engineers developed new software strategies for the same Jesko Absolut that claimed the 2024 title. The upgrade package, called Absolut Overdrive, sharpens drivetrain communication, optimises the Light Speed Transmission’s decision-making, and introduces an all-new torque control system that manages rear-wheel grip with wizard-like precision. These refinements aren’t just for show. Every Jesko Absolut customer will get them, meaning owners are essentially handed the keys to the world record setup - no “special one-off prototype” nonsense here.
Christian von Koenigsegg puts it bluntly: “That we achieve this level of performance with a production car utilizing a combustion engine with rear wheel drive only — beating all 4-wheel drive electric cars in a straight line — is almost magical, and shows that ‘truths’ can be re-written.”
Numbers That Break Your Brain
The new run delivered a string of stats that read like sci-fi:
0–400–0 km/h: 25.21s
0–400 km/h: 16.77s
400–0 km/h: 8.44s
0–250–0 mph: 25.67s
0–250 mph: 17.18s
250–0 mph: 8.49s
If those numbers don’t mean much, here’s the context - this is the fastest fully homologated production car in the world over this brutal test. It’s not just acceleration that’s insane; stopping from those speeds in under 8.5 seconds is equally mind-bending. Lundh didn’t even get a glass-smooth, sunny runway for the record. Earlier rainfall meant a damp surface that was still drying out - hardly ideal when you’re trying to hook up 1,600+ horsepower through just two driven wheels. Yet the Jesko Absolut’s twin-turbo 5.0-litre V8, razor-sharp aero profile, and software-enhanced traction control strategies made short work of physics. The run was monitored using industry-standard Racelogic equipment, and all data was independently verified by Racelogic themselves.
In a world increasingly dominated by all-wheel-drive electric hypercars, von Koenigsegg and his team have just proved that an internal combustion engine, driving only the rear wheels, can still rule the straight-line kingdom.
Take a look at the YouTube video that shows just how freaking fast this new record is. That in-car footage is mind-bending and doesn’t show the forces at play, until Markus Lundh slams on the brakes to get the back end of the record sorted out: KOENIGSEGG Jesko Absolut | 0-400-0 km/h - NEW WORLD RECORD | KOENIGSEGG
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