- 2004 Koenigsegg CCR
Koenigseqq has been around since 1994. And in 2004, just 10 years after it’s inception, it built the first production car with more than 400 horsepower. It was called the CCR and it had a supercharged 4.7 liter V8 that Koenigsegg actually borrowed from Ford. This engine made a staggering 817 horsepower. This helped the CCR to reach a top speed of 241 miles an hour.
900 and 1000 horsepower. Bugatti Veyron
The first car to produce 900 horsepower is also the first car to produce 1000 horsepower. Any guesses? Yes it’s the incredible Bugatti Veyron. It would do 0 to 60 miles an hour in 2.5 seconds. And hit 253 miles an hour. So it was the quickest and the fastest of all time when it came out in 2005. And it’s huge 8 liter, quad turbo W16 engine produced 1001 horsepower. So it also was the most powerful car ever.
2007 SSC Ultimate Aero TT
The next car on this list is the Ultimate Aero TT from 2007. Which was the first production car with more than 1,100 horsepower. It had a 6.3 liter V8 from a Corvette. With two massive turbos bolted onto it, so it made a whopping 1,108 horsepower. But that wasn’t ultimate enough for SSC because it boosted the car’s power to 1,287 horsepower in 2009. Then it gave it an even bigger 6.9 liter engine in 2013, which took power up to 1300 horsepower.
2015 Koenigsegg Regera
The second Koenigsegg on this list is the Regera. This was the first production car to produce more than 1,400 horsepower and 1,500 horsepower when it was revealed in 2015. That’s one whole year before Bugatti revealed the 1,500 horsepower Chiron. Unlike the Chiron with it’s complicated W16, the Regera came with a hearty twin turbo, 5 liter V8, but it was also boosted by 3 electric motors. So it made 1,521 horsepower in total.
Rimac Nevera
The next car on my list is the Rimac Nevera. This uses 4 electric motors and a huge 120 kilowatt hour battery pack. To produce 1914 horsepower. So it was the first car to break the 1,700, 1,800 and 1,900 horsepower barriers. Because it’s an electric car there’s no reason for the environmentalists to get enough about it either. The Nevera was revealed in 2018. But Rimac didn’t have a name for it back then. So it was just called the Concept 2 or C2 for short.
Lotus Evija
Lotus is famous for building light weight sports cars like the Elise. But in July 2019 it revealed the Evija hypercar. Just like the Rimac the Evija has four electric motors. But combined they produce an insane 2,000 horsepower.This makes it the first car to break the 2,000 horsepower barrier.
That’s it for this segment. There will be a new post tomorrow. See you next time
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