Making 280mph Capable Carbon Fiber Wheels - /INSIDE KOENIGSEGG 

And I second that!

vmeansvelocity However he did a few lapses here ;)

well said.

I mean, he invented the FlexFuel system when he was 19.

Calle Söderberg This is one very clever man, he does a fantastic video with J Leno about his inventions, total Respect from me!

doodskie999 HAHAHAHA I love this comment

best comment i ever read... simply awesome

MOHAMMED ADIL KM I fully agree, with Mohammed adult km.

unsprung weight? it would better to say "dead weight" which refers to anything unnecessary or weight that has no value to the operation

Well done..

I guess u could say it’s 1:1

@@Tom__Fuji lol

Honestly, compared to ferraris or lambos of similar price, Keonigseggs are 10x better deals. The level of engineering and innovation is so much more.

@@ErikWilliamsviolin not to mention Paganis that literally charge $2m extra for "tricolore" versions that are just different paint jobs that your local professional exotic car paintshop can do for $3k lol Pagani has literally released 2 models in 20+ years of existence

Absolutely! To know that they are taking they time to mount, remount, and possibly even choose another tire to aid balancing, it just sounds incredible. I'm not saying others don't, but still.

s0nnyburnett so true.

True Take a look at Elon Musk He knows his cars and his rockets better than his pockets

Watching that I'm thinking the guy doing the lay-up knows the boss can do it(ffs he might be the one who developed it) and is checking his work as he goes......lol.

Even cooler when boss makes his shit.

@@arwo1143 lol drinking that Elon kool-aid, much? Elon may know a thing or two, but he's a petty little prick, and thinks sending people in cars in what is literally a huge beta program is "innovative." gtfo.

+Kalashnikov Cortez He is prebalanced.

He did say and half his life.....

Hahaa! I thought i was the only one who noticed that. Lol

He said "And for half of my life"

@@heisenberg19989 Koenigsegg was founded in 1994

lol

Chill out. This is not disrespect. Plus this man is not even black.

If you are driving, building and selling hypercars, your head must be most efficiently aerodynamic.

RolandAshcroft. I bet he made babies with more efficient organs, and with natural carbon fiber bones. and he call tell you everything about how it works.

+RolandAshcroft lol

same except i would be super sad cuz i couldnt even afford a koenigsegg super lightweight t shirt

+Donari you made me laugh

You should see the design they have for the cylinder heads on there cars. The valves don't have valve Springs. And the car doesn't have a cam shafts either

Me too..Christian is a genious ...

Squid WithGear he owns the company dude..

+MichaelKingsfordGray AAA engineering plus.

MichaelKingsfordGray No, I don't even know that guy. I was just messing around and answering as if it was directed at me.

MichaelKingsfordGray ok ha ha

+TheFoxfy I got news for you; every company with hopes of success have owners that are intimately involved. I'm not saying you are wrong, I'm saying it is not what sets this company apart.

+TheFoxfy The attention to detail is so amazing it is inspiring.

Or Lamborghini

Nice gixxer, is it a 750?

Meterz. Thanks. No 600

+Gary Lowe i also bet they dont even know the engines because they use engineers to make one but Mr koenigsegg knows everything. that is why his car is goin to be a new king of the road

+Gary Lowe or what material

agreed! Chrsitian is absolutly amazing and passionate about his Brand

Velocity yeah they are the best

Dod, with a little bit of practice and money, lots of money and facts straight, I'd bet you'd be successful doing something similar in terms of results... maybe start with something easy like an more or less flat surface then work yourself up from there. All it takes is money, time and motivation..not necessarily in that order.

he came from quite an upper middleclass household, in a country that has a high overall standard of living. so you can't compare him to some dreamer kid from a rough part of detroit or something.

Detroit??? Lol, that's better than Congo.

Me, a dreamer from a poverty living part of the Philippines: that's hard?

Make sure to start with a shit ton of money, too! 😆

I love carbon fibre 😍 and carbon fibre wheels 😘😗😙😚😇 I'm in love! I love you

you love me too? because i made of carbon fibre hehehe

Fucking insane...

the centenarios wheels are only equipped with CF plates for looks tho

I totally agree!!!

Haha great to see other MEs that can say the same!

lol I'm a MechE too...love these vids. Would love to find a job with a company like this...

I agree as well, currently working on my master's in automotive engineering ;). Too bad he couldn't show everything.

fesch03 UofM? Just finished my undergrad, going back for M.A.Sc in automotive as well. but its challenging to get into that job market when you're trained in North America :(

Lord of The Poop Slim to none airresistance there ey?

Lord of The Poop Japp!! And his inside is also very polished.

pe er His brain is definitely polished too. Such an intelligent dude who loves cars!

Jamie Stirzaker Japp!!

+Adrian K he said, that was for reducing weight and aerodynamic

well when you consider that pagani's engines are built by AMG while koenigsegg makes their own engines AND transmissions then yes he is on a different level called innovation.

Paganis had only 2 cars for 20 years the zonda and the huayra😁

Pagani look cool on the outside but imo the interiors are tacky and they don’t make their own engines. Koenigsegg is a better car and an innovator

The outbalancing valve is a problem on every car rim, no matter how heavy the wheels are.

Most tires have a colored dot on the sidewall to indicate it's light spot. You line that up with the valve stem on the wheel to compensate.

have you ever seen ufos?

DmitriSochlioukov I see UFOs every day.

John Britten from NZ made one. Look it up

tosgem He made a ufo?

It would be too light

***** a bit of exaggeration there :p

I wouldn't expect anybody to be so open with what they make. This guy seems to be very proud of what he does and willing to show it, watching same stuff with ferrari or McLaren we would probably have some corporate bloke speaking about how enthusiastic he is about this new project and how happy they are to make best car in the market.

***** Agreed!

They lack the experience and even well funded teams with several times the budget of Koenigsegg can't score points, let alone be competitive. F1 is far more competitive and you have to constantly develop the car from race to race and do lots of testing and simulations. A roadcar doesn't need to be rushed in time for a race.

Christine Fury They have the innovation though and obviously the brains. I think it would be very interesting to see provided they got the financial aspect covered.

ianiva First they've got to successfully race any of their roadcars before we can talk about entering F1. Reynard had years of experience building really good chassis in F3000 and CART/IndyCar all of which won championships, but when they entered F1 in 1999 with BAR they didn't win a single race in 6 seaasons trying. Most people think that Carl Haas is foolish for trying to design a F1 car in the USA, as pretty much all the team and experts are in the UK (this includes Red Bull and Mercedes). So let's not get ahead of ourselves.

Christine Fury Yes but Koenigsegg is in a whole different level when it comes to innovation, know-how and attention to detail. I'm not saying they would win right away. I'm saying that, for me, it would interesting to see it.

ianiva " Yes but Koenigsegg is in a whole different level when it comes to innovation, know-how and attention to detail." Ok, elaborate. I think you have been carried away by Mr.Koenigsegg's business talk. They are no different than Pagani, Tesla or even General Motors for that matter. The last Corvette was "innovative" too and at least had the racing success to back it up. Is there any innovation Koenigsegg have pioneered themselves? Like Lotus pioneered monocoque chassis in Formula 1, the ground-effect cars and the engine as a stressed member of the chassis? Is Mr.Koenigsegg a modern day Marc Birkigt? I doubt you have even heard of him. Name one thing Koenigsegg invented which other car manufacturers will be using from now on? I applaud Koenigsegg for becoming an independent supercar maker in world where most are just kit-car makers modifying already existing chassis, strapping in a tuned engine and hardly ever getting a car sold. He deserves all praise. But they are making a big deal out of selling an IPad with a slightly bigger screen or one that is slightly lighter. Pardon my analogy. Carbon wheels is nothing new yet people here go absolutely ballistic as if it was some great, new innovation. They could be purchased by the public for superbikes in the early 90's. For a small supercar manufacturer where longevity is still a huge question mark and most are sold to wealthy Middle Easteners, with more money than wits, it's some bold assumption to think they could make it in F1 even if they had the funds to do so. Like I said before: First they've got to race in sportscar racing, even a privately entered team. " Yes but Koenigsegg is in a whole different level when it comes to innovation, know-how and attention to detail." I'm afraid that comes across as a subjective opinion (which you have every right to) until you can include some objective facts and arguments with which to back up your claim. "Koenigsegg look awesome, sound awesome and are really fast, which is also really awesome but I'm going to use big words like innovative, know-how and attention to say that instead."

so true koenigseggs cars are so much faster better looking just Better in better

better in general *

+FastCarsNoRules220 I fully agree, but Bugatti's use higher quality components, better interiors, and they offer servicing in the US unlike Koenigsegg.

Erick Ortiz I disagree the koenigsegg has a beautiful interior and this video just shows how high quality all the components are

Shane D Well it's all personal preference, but Bugatti's sexy leather seats catch my eye better. They are super luxurious cars, much more luxurious than Koenigsegg's cars.

He may have used it for any Americans watching who still use the imperial system.

trodd1sox Why not use metric for all of the rest of the world watching, lel

+JanusPrime coz Americans are the best!

Even in metrical countries like here in Germany, we use inches to describe the size of a rim. But tires sizes are metrical. For example 20x10,5 in rims and 265/40/20" tires.

simon sechzig I thought rims were in Zoll?

Dragon4eva not even god could make it happen... lol jk u never know work hard or get lucky and u may have enough for one one day

Absolut krank....nichts vergleichbares

Ikr

I can send you a peace of carbon if you want

Heroes don´t age.

It's not secret, it's patented

im sure if you were insanely rich you would buy both, plus a Pagani :DD

the boss* I don't think anyone else compares.

well said

I know 🙄🙄

You mean never

Grogoful probably :(

Grogoful never say never, he probably could win a lottery

Hirok Akhand he probably won't win lol but he does have a small chance

Not when if

😂😂

naa that's not it, it's because he's spent so much of his life looking at 'how to make things faster' by making them aerodynamic that he decided to wax his eyebrows to increase his average walking speed by 0.00001mph

but seriously....is he ill or sth like that ?

hes got alopecia areata and lost all his hair, an auto immune disease that is often contributed to stress.

😂😂😂😂

the mclaren f1 was a production car and there was only a handful of them.

夏春秋 more like 100 give or take. which is a handful in the car world. at least according to wiki, so take that with a grain of salt. I think a car needs 50 to be made qualify as production

夏春秋 they made 69 Mclaren F1's 6 LM's 2 GT's 28 GTR's So yeah, not very many.

no.... They make about 10-12 per year, wich is all they need to brake even. The waiting list is currently over 1 year if you want one. As of Mclaren F1s, 106 were built, 28 of them being race cars, the rest road cars. 300 were originally planned. Koenigsegg so far has built 106 cars, same as the number of McLaren F1s.

Peter Pan thanks for the info!

Yeah man you can lift all the 4 wheels, not like the aluminum

Nah aluminium wheel doesnt that heavy. If u buy a branded one 16" like enkei only weights 7.5kg add another 2.5kg but costs much cheaper

You have a shitty TV and remote

Lmao my 15" forged wheels weigh about the same

@@kanjosidr Yes 15" but thease are 20" and 19" and are wider

I believe it's more like 4 times, but still, a significant weight reduction when saved as unsprung weight.

***** Turns out you're right: The laws of physics rule here. Energy is needed to bring the wheel/tire mass up to speed (mph) and to spin it to the related rpm. Consider a lighter tire/wheel combo: m = mass reduction I = inertia reduction w = rotational speed v = car speed r = tire radius E = total energy saved by mass reduction "m" ^2 = squared E = 1/2 m v^2 + 1/2 I w^2 E = E(speed) + E(rotation) Rotary Inertia is the sum of each bit of mass times it's radius squared. If all the mass reduction is at the tire OD (the theoretical but not practical limit), the inertia reduction is the maximum possible value: I = r^2 m The relation between car speed and tire rpm: v = r w Combine 3 equations above: E = 1/2 m v^2 + 1/2 (r^2 m) (v/r)^2 E = 1/2 m v^2 + 1/2 (m) (v)^2 E = 2 x E(speed) ... the 2X limit So if you drop 10 lbs per corner, the net total weight savings is 4 x 17 = 68 lbs. For a 3700 lb car and driver, that's only a 1.8% change. The main benefit of reducing wheel/tire or any unsprung weight is handling and comfort, by increasing the tires ability to keep good contact with the road. Total unsprung weight might be 80 lbs per corner, and 10 lbs would be a 13% change ... very significant. ------------------------------------------------- If just a 17" or 18" wheel is 10 lb lighter (reuse same tires), then the total net savings is about 13 lbs. The rotational part is 3 lbs. Read more: mbworld.org/forums/wheels-tires-suspension-brakes-forum-sponsored-tire-rack/343981-effect-wheel-mass-acceleration.html#ixzz30sA2zsEV

lol good work with the research, wonder where i heard it was 10x anyway, always surprises me how constructive people can be on youtube I try and be better than the normal troll. good work to you

lol well I had never really questioned the unsprung weight principle, I always accepted the 4x rule. This post made me curious, so I thought I'd do a bit of research.

Mclaren is not that well known if u ask someone what is their dream car their answer my s gonna be a Ferrari or lambo

NightCrow McLaren is still better known than Koenigsegg and/or Pagain, I mean even non car enthusiast will know of the legendary F1 even if only by name or the Formula One team, and yes McLaren do make excellent cars but if I had to have a super/hyper car at the moment i'd buy a Pagani Huayra

top 5 cars according to me Koenigsegg One: 1 Koenigsegg regera pagani hyera (correct my spelling) Koenigsegg agera RS between pagani zonda R or Lamborghini aventador

+jibbs zondadogga one:1

+marco fava That's because they're both hypercars :)