Photo: carinalima_racing/instagram
Since Koenigsegg is touring the world with its Jesko right now, an adventure that isn't without its challenges, it can be easy to overlook the brilliant of the carmaker's Grand Tourer model, namely the Regera. However, when you own such a hybrid hypercar, you'll definitely have no such issues. Well, this happens to be the case with Carina Lima, a social media figure who recently took delivery of a Regera.
The aficionado, who also likes to engage in motorsport shenanigans, was invited to the Angelholm mother ship and could thus put the Regera through its paces in a safe environment - note that these stunts, which involve hooning on a runway, weren't performed with her personal car.
We've previously seen Carina attempting to drift the gas-electric GT and the result was... complicated. This is due to the fact that the Regera doesn't come with a conventional transmission.
Instead, the twin-turbo V8 sends its power to the rear wheels with the help of two electric motors (one for each wheel), with the setup also involving a hydraulic coupling that disconnects the V8 at low speeds - there's also a third e-motor attached to the front of the crankshaft, with this acting like a starter/generator.
This time around, though, Carina went for an acceleration test, with the sprinting taking the Koenigsegg well north of the 200 mph border. And with the instrument cluster taking up an important part of the frame, we can easily keep track of the vehicle's progress.
And, given the said powertrain quirk, the soundtrack of the experience is perhaps the most interesting part, at least from this side of the screen.
For the record, the Regera can accelerate even quicker than it appears to do is this clip, but, once again, we're focusing on the experience, not the numbers here.
We've previously seen Carina attempting to drift the gas-electric GT and the result was... complicated. This is due to the fact that the Regera doesn't come with a conventional transmission.
Instead, the twin-turbo V8 sends its power to the rear wheels with the help of two electric motors (one for each wheel), with the setup also involving a hydraulic coupling that disconnects the V8 at low speeds - there's also a third e-motor attached to the front of the crankshaft, with this acting like a starter/generator.
This time around, though, Carina went for an acceleration test, with the sprinting taking the Koenigsegg well north of the 200 mph border. And with the instrument cluster taking up an important part of the frame, we can easily keep track of the vehicle's progress.
And, given the said powertrain quirk, the soundtrack of the experience is perhaps the most interesting part, at least from this side of the screen.
For the record, the Regera can accelerate even quicker than it appears to do is this clip, but, once again, we're focusing on the experience, not the numbers here.
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