Koenigsegg Automotive

After months of waiting, I finally was give the opportunity to visit Koenigsegg Automotive, producer of (arguably) the fastest production car currently in existence, the Agera R.

The Agera R has a theoretical top speed of 440km/h. This top speed remain theoretical as there currently isn't a race track in the world with a straight long enough to get the car up to it's top speed (it needs approx. 10-12km). I suggested to Christian Koenigsegg that they bring the car down to Australia where we have a single flat straight piece of road that's 146km long, stretching across the bottom of WA.

Funnily enough, the only racing strait that comes close to what they need is the 9km test track owned by Koenigsegg's biggest rival Volkswagen who produce the current record-holder the Bugatti Veyron Super Sport (top speed 431km/h). Naturally Volkswagen doesn't want the Agera R to take their record.

(Koenigsegg's 2012 Agera test model parked outside the factory)

 (Magnus and the Agera)

(Christian Von Koenigsegg overseeing the latest car to come off the factory floor)

I discovered that it takes a minimum of 20 weeks for a Koenigsegg car to be assembled and painted. This time increases depending on the custom specifications of the buyer. Koenigsegg allows it's customers almost unlimited control over the appearance of the car as well as the ability to storage space and custom leather. One customisation outlined to us was that if a customer wishes to have a fully visible carbon finish on their car it would require the carbon chassis and all other visible carbon parts to be specially made so that all seams and joins line up with no overlap, prior to the assembly of the car. This extra attention to detail justifiably means that there is a significant increase in the cars price. Otherwise all colour schemes are under the same price of over $1.5 million AUD.

 (Robert Serwanski - Koenigseggs one and only test driver and holder of all current Agera R records; 0-100km/h 2.9s, 0-200km/h 7.5s, 0-300km/h 14.53s, 300-0km/h 6.6s... In other words, the luckiest man alive)

 (Ms. Koenigsegg who gave us the tour)

Let summer begin...

It's been a strange two weeks since my last post... I've done quite a bit but I feel i've just been relaxing the whole time.

On the 1st of June, Magnus the club president organised to visit hit son's school to give a presentation on Australia to his yr 7 english class. They then let us watch their rehearsal of the final scene of 'Grease'. 

Afterwards, I joined Magnus and his family for afternoon Fika and then Dinner.

 (Magnus' Family outside their home in Magnarp)

A few days later I joined a group of Vittra kids on a field trip to Liseberg (the largest theme park in sweden) up in Göteborg. 2 hours sitting on a train...

(Axel and Mattis)

(The tower is the "AtmosFear" a 146m free-fall ride which I was the only game enough to go on it 5 times)

(The Kannon)

 (An old wooden Roller-coaster called the Balder with a 70 degree slope at the start)

(Hanna on the left won a 2kg box of Chocolates)

For my Birthday my host family put together a nice BBQ and i spent the afternoon baking a Pavlova and reading the last chapters of the third book in the Millenium Series (Girl with the Dragon tattoo series). The Sandberg's were kind enough to buy me a Sverige Hoodie you will probably now see me wearing in photos from now on.

 (le patriotic Pavlova)

Wednesday the 6th was Sweden's National Day which I spent at Hembygdspaken, Ängelholm's community farm/ historic park with a petting zoo, museum and café.

Thursday morning was spent in Ängelholm's church to celebrate the graduating Vittra kids and bidding them farewell. This was followed by 10-pin bowling with some friends to celebrate my birthday. I didn't loose, which was good, and was even holding 2nd place before Simone got a double strike and a 8 pushing her above me.

Friday was a big day in Ängelholm because it was the day that all the 3rd year students finally graduated. I attended a friend from waterpolo Viktor's graduation party.

 (Viktor; very happy with himself)

 (Adam-centre and Ludvig-right are on the waterpolo team)

 (Oscar-centre is Viktor's little brother who is also on the team)

 (Toby... also a waterpolo player)

 After the Party a group of us made our way into town to meet up with the other students graduating.

Long story short; we were out until about 4am celebrating.

 (Viktor, Oscar and I waiting for a Taxi at 4am)

 (the sun starting to rise in the distance)

On Monday all the RotEx students in our district (bar Matt Kramer and Tomoji) gathered at Rosie Bliss' place on the beach for a final get-together/final goodbye.

As you can imagine... the usual shenanigans ensued.

(Yuki: our little ninja-angel)

((David and his pony)

This Friday I am finally going to visit Koenigsegg with Magnus.

Here is a GoogleMaps screen-shot of the route we will take for the EuroTour in two weeks