6 cars making over 1,000 hp debuted in Geneva
Power; it’s the defining factor that separates hypercars from all the others. In the case of the Geneva Motor Demonstrate, there were slew of high-horsepower hypercars on display for us to fawn over. From Artega to Zenvo, these six undoubtedly turned some goes with figures well over the 1,000 mark.
The last we spotted of Artega, the German automaker was on the brink of bankruptcy. But alas, from the ashes rises a fresh and much-improved vehicle on the back of the original GT.
The Scalo Superelletra may not look like it, but it has 1,020 horsepower (760 kilowatts) stashing under the rubber hood courtesy of an electrical drivetrain. The design is familiar within the Artega family, but a bit more ironed out than previous concepts. It wears a magnificent burnt orange exterior and features a central driver’s seat. For what it’s worth, the Scalo is rumored to cost around £1.Three million (about $1.59 million).
Koenigsegg Regera
Koenigsegg is no stranger to horsepower. Previous iterations of the company’s famed hypercars are well within 1,000-horsepower (745-kilowatt) territory. But at the Geneva Motor Demonstrate, the Swedish supercar maker pulled out all the stops and put all of its power on display. literally.
Two Regeras sit front and center. Each one comes with 1,500 horsepower (1,118 kilowatts) under the spandex hood courtesy of a bitrurbo Five.0-liter V8 with three electrified motors. Top speed is rumored to be around two hundred forty eight miles per hour (399 kilometers per hour), and each one costs $1.9 million.
Koenigsegg Agera RS
If you thought Koeniegsegg would only have two of its 1,000+-horsepower hypercars on display, you’d be mistaken. As a sort of send off to the now iconic Agera, the company created the bespoke Agera RS Gryphon with 1,360 horsepower (1,014 kilowatts) under the spandex hood, custom-built bodywork, and even 24-carat gold accents. No word on how much this one cost, but we do know that it will be heading to the home of famed collector Manny Khoshbin.
Techrules Ren
Tech-who? The Chinese upstart may not be familiar to most, but you may want to recall the name from here on out. The company debuted its 1,287-horsepower (960-kilowatt) turbine-hybrid hypercar at the Geneva Motor Demonstrate.
Depending on how customers spec it, the Ren comes with either one or two micro turbines generating tens unit for a twenty five kilowatt-hour battery, two, four, or six electrical motors, and as much as 1,287 horsepower (960 kilowatts) and 1,725 pound-feet (Two,340 Newton-meters) of torque. Not to mention a claimed range of seven hundred twenty seven miles (1,170 kilometers).
If that all sounds a little too good to be true, the company will reportedly begin production in two thousand eighteen with as many as ten examples built per year. No word on pricing.
Vanda Electrified Dendrobium*
Here’s the thing, Vanda Electrical hasn’t exactly come out and given us all the details on its stunning fresh Dendrobium supercar. We know that it will have a top speed of over two hundred miles per hour (322 kilometers per hour) and a zero to sixty mph (96 kmh) sprint of just Two.7 seconds. We also know that, like a few other hypercars on this list, it will have an electrical powertrain.
Rumors suggest it could produce well over 1,000 horsepower (745 kilowatts) when it’s introduced, but we won’t know anything for sure until then. Whatever the case, CEO Larissa Sunburn says “we have every intention of putting it into production,” so that’s good news.
Zenvo TS1 GT
However they’ve only built eleven cars in ten years, Zenvo still has every intention of loading as much power into a single car as they can. Case in point: the TS1 GT, which debuted in Geneva with 1,163 horsepower (867 kilowatts) under the spandex hood. Wearing a special Fjord Blue finish, the TS1 celebrates ten years for the Danish automaker, and sees a number of fresh features like a custom-built interior, 20-inch wheels, and a fresh seven-speed sequential racing gearbox.
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