Koenigsegg is flying out from Sweden to California for Monterey Car Week, and it’s bringing with it not one, but two of its enormously powerful supercars – including one variant we’ve never heard of before.
The new Koenigsegg Agera XS is essentially the same as the Agera RS we’ve already seen, which is to say it’s a very rare beast indeed. In fact this is the first one being delivered to the United States. And its customer wanted it to be badged XS instead of RS, for whatever reason. It also has the largest rear wing ever fitted to a Koenigsegg.
The specs are otherwise the same as the Agera RS, packing a 5.0-liter twin-turbocharged V8 rated at 1,160 horsepower to make it the most powerful Koenigsegg this side of the One:1 the company brought to Monterey last year, and the Regera hybrid it’s bringing along with the Agera XS this year.
Poised to show up even the Porsche 918 Spyder, McLaren P1 and LaFerrari, the Regera packs that same 5.0-liter twin-turbo V8, but accompanied by a trio of electric motors for a combined output of 1,500 horsepower – and no pesky transmission to get in the way.
Only 80 examples will be made, but even with production rates increasing, it’ll still take the Swedish supercar manufacturer a long time to complete them all.
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