As much as a few members here are calling the Sapphire "almost" a hypercar, sorry guys, the Sapphire it is NOT. Maybe in the sheer power delivered, but this is it.
Exterior wise it's just a sedan. Very beautiful sedan, but just a sedan, nothing hyper about it.
Very similar to the rest of the Lucid Air family.
Koenigsegg on the other hand, most beautiful car in production IMHO, holds so many innovations, patents and forward thinking that isn't matched by any other car makers (IMHO of course again).
Google is your friend here, as it is mine also (copy/paste thingie), but let me extrapolate just few:
- Carbon fiber chassis.
Carbon fiber tub chassis is built with an aluminum honeycomb core structure for increased crash protection. This chassis has 65,000 Nm per degree of torsional rigidity, more than any other vehicle in the world.
- Koenigsegg engines.
Koenigsegg manufactures its own engines. Their most powerful? A Koenigsegg V8 engine that’s lightweight and capable of over 1,300 hp.
- ‘Rocket’ catalytic converter.
This converter works in such a way that when the pre-cat creates too much back pressure at high rpm, the overpressure is dynamically bypassed directly to the main cat. The main cat is at full temperature meaning an efficient operation when the Rocket Cat is required.
- Dihedral synchro-helix doors.
Typically, the doors on sports cars are larger and need more space to open, and scissor doors open high, making it difficult to reach when seated. This is why Koenigsegg has created the dihedral synchro-helix doors which sweep outwards and upwards to open high enough to avoid curbs, as well as other vehicles to the sides.
- Triplex suspension system.
The third damper, hovering from side to side over the engine in the rear. This ‘Triplex’ third damper helps provide an anti-squat element to the suspension setup. Squat is what happens when taking off under hard acceleration. The rear squats down and the rear wheels want to rise. This damper acts against this to provide resistance and counteracting the anti-roll bar when driving straight.
- Z-shape anti-roll bar.
This Z-shaped anti-roll bar on the Agera RS only has one pivot point instead of two in order to reduce friction and increase accuracy and response. The central parts are steel and the outer parts are carbon fiber rods.
- 'Aircore' hollow carbon fiber wheels.
Lighter wheels means quicker acceleration, more agile changes in direction, and more efficient braking. Newly released three-spoke carbon fiber wheels have been house-made and designed for the Koenigsegg Regera.
- HydraCoup.
HydraCoup is basically a very advanced torque converter with lock-up functionality; the all-important linchpin that allows smooth and progressive power transfer from the combustion engine to the Regera’s single-speed driveline. HydraCoup will then gradually feed power from the internal combustion engine into the drivetrain until the HydraCoup locks up and the full power and torque of the ICE are applied.
- Koenigsegg direct drive transmission.
The patent-pending KDD replaces the combustion engine’s traditional transmission — the gearbox as you know it is removed from the car. In its place, the KDD provides direct drive to the rear axle from the combustion engine without the need for a multitude of gears or a variable transmission, all of which have inherently high energy losses. The three components of the KDD system are three engines, HydraCoup, and one Formula 1 grade, super-dense, super-compact battery pack.
- And few other I'm not gonna mention.
Sorry if I derailed the thread a bit, but we are all car enthusiasts here, so I'm hoping my rant will not bore you too much.
It's so, I apologize.
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