Lucky supercar owners take their pride to a Swedish airstrip, and only one walks away without embarrassment.
Since Bugatti claimed the record for the world's fastest production car in 2005 and later in 2010, everyone and anyone with wealthy friends – including BBC's "Top Gear" – has been trying to kill its 268-mph supercar with a camera.The latest attempt is from GTSpirit.com, which posted a video of a Swedish man who happened to have access to a runway, a Bugatti Veyron 16.4 and the one-of-one Koenigsegg Agera S Hundra. It's a 26-minute clip that shows the supercar pair taking shots at each other, with one losing every time the accelerators are mashed. While it doesn't appear either driver was following the rules of a certified time trial, the evidence is clear: The Swedes make a very fast automobile.
This particular Agera is the 100th car that Koenigsegg has ever built. I visited the factory in Angelholm, Sweden, last year, and believe me, they take their sweet time with every car. The Agera has roughly the same power as the Veyron – 1,045 horsepower versus 1,001, although the power in both cars can vary by 20 or more horsepower with each engine – and being rear-wheel-drive, it is lighter.
This is not the 1,200-horsepower Veyron Super Sport, which just reclaimed its Guinness record in April after many supercar companies claimed to have beaten it on testing technicalities.
But despite all that, it sure is fun to watch one of these cars get absolutely whupped, and unless one of the drivers didn't have his foot down, I'm quite shocked.
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