Light Speed Transmission (LST): the gearbox that doesn’t shift, it teleports Ask any engineer at Porsche, Ferrari or McLaren what the fastest-shifting gearbox is, and for twenty years the answer was settled: the dual-clutch. The DSG, the PDK, the lot. While you’re in third, the box already has fourth loaded up on the second clutch, … Read more
Freevalve: the camless engine, told properly Let’s get something out of the way before we go any further, because nearly every English-language piece on this engine starts with the same lie. Koenigsegg did not invent the camless engine. They are not the first to try it. The idea of binning the camshaft and operating valves … Read more
Freevalve: the camless engine, told properly Let’s get something out of the way before we go any further, because nearly every English-language piece on this engine starts with the same lie. Koenigsegg did not invent the camless engine. They are not the first to try it. The idea of binning the camshaft and operating valves … Read more
Kimera K39: 1,000 Koenigsegg Horsepower, a Manual Gearbox, and the Question Nobody Dared Ask Christian von Koenigsegg doesn’t hand out the beating heart of his company to just anyone. He’s spent decades building a reputation on engineering so uncompromising that owning a Koenigsegg feels less like buying a car and more like receiving a handshake … Read more
Koenigsegg: The Third Swede Nobody Mentions — Who Makes Everyone Else Look Ordinary By Not Enough Cylinders We’ve talked about Volvo. We’ve talked about SAAB. Both brands have been in the collective automotive imagination for decades. Now let’s talk about the Swede almost nobody mentions when discussing Swedish cars. The one operating in a completely … Read more
Why Swedes Design Such Strange Cars: Nordic Philosophy vs German Obsession By Not Enough Cylinders If you’ve read the other articles in this series, you already have three concrete examples of Swedish cars doing things nobody else did: engine installed backwards, odd five-cylinder motor, supersonic-fighter-named front-wheel-drive car with no electronic aids. This isn’t coincidence. It’s … Read more
