So, you think a McLaren P1 is not quite powerful enough and a LaFerrari positively slow. A Bugatti too boring?
Then let us introduce you to the Koenigsegg Regera, the most powerful car on show at the Geneva Motor Show. It has, wait for it, 1,700hp. Yup, 1,700hp or about as much as a mid-eighties F1 car with the qualifying boost turned waaaay up.
The Regera gets around 1,100hp from its 6.0-litre turbocharged V8 engine and the other 600-odd-hp comes from the three electric motors of its hybrid system - one for each wheel and one mounted on the crankshaft.
The really clever bit is that this hybrid system means the Regera doesn't need a gearbox - the engine can drive the rear wheels directly, using the electric motors as reduction gears, meaning that the extra weight of the hybrid setup is balanced out by not needing a conventional set of cogs.
Because it's a plugin hybrid, you can charge it up and drive around for short hops on pure electric power. That won't give you access to the Regera's insane performance though. It can hit 100km/h from standstill in 2.8 seconds, which is only about as good as, say, a McLaren 675 Longtail. Wait though, because the Koenigsegg is just getting going. It will punch from 100km/h to 250km/h in another 3 seconds and, from a standing start, will hit 400km/h in just 20 seconds. Holy moly, that's fast.
Want more? There is more. Koenigsegg claims that all the extra electric motor and battery stuff actually only adds 88kg to the weight of the Regera, compared to what it would weigh if it had a conventional gearbox. There's a little extra weight too thanks to the hydraulically actuated bootlid, engine cover and rotating doors. All of which can be actuated remotely from the key fob or from a smartphone app. Yup, you can pretend your car is a Transformer...
There's a retracting Le-Mans-style top-mount wing that helps the Regera to generate 450kg of downforce at high speed and the exhaust has a fishtail design, which is meant to make the engine note even louder.
And the price for all this? €1.7 million, before taxes.