The hot topic among petrolheads has, for quite some time, been the three hybrid hypercars launched by Ferrari, Porsche and McLaren, i.e. the LaFerrari, the 918 Spyder and the P1.
All three will make mincemeat of 99.9 percent of road-legal supercars. There is one rival, though, that can make them eat humble pie, hybrid tech or not.
Enter the Koenigsegg Agera R. It has no electric motors whatsoever for instant torque right from the start, no clever four-wheel drive and it sure doesn’t claim 100 mpg or less than 100 g/km of CO2.
What it does, though, is deploy 1,140hp and no less than 1,200 Nm, courtesy of a twin turbo 5.0-liter V8r in a package that weighs 1,435 kg. The 918 Spyder claims a better 0-62 mph (0-100 km/h) time of 2.6 vs 2.9 seconds (its AWD provides better traction) but it’s heavier by 300 kg and down on both power and torque.
Thus, when the two stand side-by-side for a rolling start acceleration from 50 to 320 km/h (30-200 mph), once these twin turbos light up the Swedish missile leaves the Porsche for dead, as you can see in the video that follows after the break.