Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Koenigsegg Jesko isn’t the most efficient vehicle out there … except when it comes to setting records. The futuristic hypercar ...

Koenigsegg's Jesko Absolut has just thrown down a new statement run in one of the most hardcore hypercar feats of acceleration and braking, blasting from a dead stop to 400 kilometers an hour (248 mph ...

No matter the functional improbabilities of unleashing your car's top speed on public roads, there's still something magical about knowing just how fast a hypercar like the Koenigsegg Jesko can go.

Before the Bugatti Veyron, no production car had ever cracked the 400 km/h (248.5 mph) barrier. That milestone once defined the outer edge of performance. Today, a select few hypercars can not only ...

The records were set at an airfield in Örebro, Sweden, in the early hours of Thursday, June 27. On the run, the Jesko Absolut, which was piloted by Koenigsegg test driver Markus Lundh, went from zero ...