The 125th and final Koenigsegg Jesko has rolled out of Ängelholm, Sweden, in a champagne shade the company calls Skumpa. It’s a one-off Absolut called Jesko 125, and Koenigsegg isn’t saying who paid for it.
A video circulating online suggests the keys went to Daniil Medvedev, the Russian tennis player and former world No. 1. Koenigsegg’s own post said nothing about the buyer, so for now that’s a strong hint rather than a confirmed sale.
The car itself is easier to pin down. A green-tinted carbon stripe runs down the middle as a nod to the Regera, with bare carbon on the front five-spoke wheels, rear aero covers, splitter, side skirts and diffuser.
Inside, more green-tinted carbon meets brown and beige leather. The metal trim is rose gold. A “125” script sits on the seatbacks, in case anyone forgets which car this is.
Nobody will. The Jesko was unveiled in 2019 and named after Christian von Koenigsegg’s father, Jesko. Customers then waited until 2023 for the first deliveries.
What they got was a twin-turbo 5.0-liter V8 making up to 1,600 horsepower and 1,106 lb-ft of torque on E85. All of it goes to the rear wheels through Koenigsegg’s nine-speed multi-clutch Light Speed Transmission.
Buyers picked one of two bodies. The Attack was built for downforce and lap times. The Absolut shed drag to chase a simulated 330 mph top speed.
That number still lives in a computer. Nobody has taken an Absolut to 330 mph in the real world, and Koenigsegg has never claimed otherwise.
The records the car did set are real. The Jesko ran 0-400-0 km/h in 25.21 seconds, a world best. It also covered the quarter mile in 8.54 seconds at 189.76 mph, a production-car record.
Then there’s the volume. By hypercar standards, 125 cars is a flood.
The CC8S managed six. The CCR made 14, the CCX family 49 and the Agera family 65. Even the Regera, Koenigsegg’s hybrid grand tourer, stopped at 80.
The Jesko outnumbered every two-seat hypercar the company has ever built. Its reward is no announced successor.
Koenigsegg hasn’t confirmed a direct replacement. The factory’s focus has moved to the four-seat Gemera, which recently entered production after its own long wait from debut.
But the Jesko isn’t really going anywhere. Its carbon monocoque and twin-turbo V8 sit underneath the CC850, the retro tribute to the CC8S with its six-speed gated manual. They also underpin the CCGT1.
Both of those cars still have customer orders to fill. So the hardware that made the Jesko keeps moving down the line in Ängelholm, just wearing different clothes.
Next up is the Sadair’s Spear, a track-focused Jesko variant. Its deliveries were always meant to follow the standard car’s 125-unit run, which means they start now.
So the Jesko 125, in Skumpa paint and rose gold trim, ends a nameplate rather than a machine.
Koenigsegg built its name on tiny production runs and outrageous claims. The Jesko sold in bigger numbers than any of its predecessors and backed up most of those claims.
The 330 mph figure is still waiting for a long enough road. Koenigsegg hasn’t said what comes next or when, and the Spear deliveries are only just getting started.
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