Meet The New 1,700bhp Koenigsegg

You could call it a family car…I mean, it has four seats, six airbags, ISOFIX points, cupholders, front and rear infotainment systems, wireless charging, and storage space for a fair bit of luggage. That’s sounds like a family car to me.

You don’t normally get that amount of practicality from a car that weighs 1,850kg along with 2,580lb-ft. It can reach a top speed of 250mph and can hit 0-62mph in 1.9 seconds. I suppose you could call this the perfect family car, as there won’t be any “how long ’til we get there?” questions from the kids in the back. Start saving now parents, this one’s a bit pricey.

The engine is a, wait for it…three-cylinder twin-turbocharged 2.0-litre ‘Freevalve’ engine. Don’t worry, I had to Google it too, ‘Freevalve’ means the engine has no camshaft, instead, it’s electronically controlled which means better valve timing, which of course means more efficiency and most importantly, more power. So, the engine produces 600bhp and 443lb-ft, with all the power being sent to the front wheels. But it’s not all driven by an engine, as you’d expect from a powerful car in 2020, it has electric motors, three of them. One on each rear wheel, the other one is on the crankshaft. In EV, the Gemera can hit 186mph and the 800Volt battery gives you up to 31 miles of range.

The Gemera is sitting on an extraordinarily strong carbon fibre chassis, and when you’re in the cockpit, you’ll be looking through a fighter-jet wrap around windscreen. It has rear wheel steering and as you can see from the pictures it has ‘Koenigsegg Automated Twisted Synchrohelix Actuation Doors’ or as I like to call it, scissor doors.

Only 300 of Koenigsegg’s first ever four-seater will be built, costing £1.35 million each. Bargain.