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title: "Watch and Listen to a 1,500-HP Koenigsegg Regera Hypercar Shred Through a Set of Tires"
description: "It’s always nice to see a crazy-exclusive machine that costs $2 million be put to good use, isn’t it?"
date: "2019-07-30"
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# Watch and Listen to a 1,500-HP Koenigsegg Regera Hypercar Shred Through a Set of Tires

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*​*Get ready to fall in automotive love all over again because today we have five solid minutes of the [Koenigsegg Regera hypercar](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/27692/watch-koenigsegg-crash-its-2m-regera-hypercar-in-the-name-of-safety>) doing its hypercar thing at the [Goodwood Festival of Speed](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/29175/watch-this-one-of-two-street-legal-porsche-917k-get-pushed-to-the-limit-at-goodwood>) earlier this month.

Seen here shredding its Michelin Pilot Sport Cup 2 tires at the start of and flying through the famous British hillclimb, the Regera pumps out 1,500 horsepower and 1,475 pound-feet of torque from its 5.0-liter twin-turbo V8 and three electric motors. This Regera in particular has been equipped with something called the Ghost Package, a bundle that includes a front splitter, front canards, and a pair of "winglets" at the rear that all-in-all increases downforce by up to 20 percent.

https://youtube.com/embed/tyZc70V9zWs

What you're hearing and seeing is a titanium exhaust system tuned by Akrapovic and a body made of "pre-impregnated carbon fiber/kevlar and lightweight sandwich reinforcements."

"Lightweight sandwich reinforcements" is also what I will be calling my 3 p.m. bagels from here on out.

Skip to the 1:50 mark for a neat look at the Regera's fully digital instrumentation and the dizzying amount of temperature and pressure data that can be displayed at one time. This really isn't a car for posers, especially considering only 80 will ever be made, all of which have already been sold according to the video's uploader.

The $2-million Swedish hypercar uses a radical single-gear transmission the company calls [Koenigsegg](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/27041/the-1600-hp-300-mph-koenigsegg-jesko-has-already-sold-out>) Direct Drive. Because I am not mechanically inclined enough to intelligently and succinctly tell you how it all works, here's Christian von Koenigsegg himself talking us through the technology a few years ago.

https://youtube.com/embed/glf\_k4qGBAA

## Author
Chris Tsui is *The Drive*'s former Reviews Editor and current freelance automotive journalist. He's based in Toronto.

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