Koenigsegg Agera XS and Regera
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. 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.
