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Koenigsegg Gemera Top Speed
When the Gemera was revealed in 2020 it had a 2.0-litre three-cylinder called the Tiny Friendly Giant, and that car came with a claimed 400 km/h. In July 2024 Koenigsegg cancelled the three-cylinder because almost nobody ordered it. Every Gemera being built now uses a 5.0-litre V8 making 2,300 hp, and Koenigsegg does not publish a top speed for it. So the 400 you will still find quoted all over the internet belongs to a version that was never sold. We are not going to carry it over to a different car.
Full specifications
| Engine | 5.0L twin-turbo Hot V8 |
|---|---|
| Power | 2,300 hp on E85, with the e-motor |
| Torque | 2,750 Nm |
| Electric motor | Dark Matter |
| Transmission | 9-speed Light Speed Tourbillon Transmission |
| Drivetrain | Four-wheel drive, four-wheel torque vectoring |
| Weight | About 2,042 kg |
| Power to weight | Around 1.11 hp per kg |
| Seats | Four adults |
| Fuel tank | 115 litres |
| Top speed | Not published by Koenigsegg |
| Original 2020 engine | 2.0L three-cylinder, claimed 400 km/h, cancelled July 2024 |
| Production run | 300 cars |
| Production | 2024 onwards |
About the Gemera
The Gemera is the odd one out and that is the point of it. It has four proper seats, room for four carry-on cases, and 2,300 hp. Koenigsegg's own phrase for the category was a four-seat megacar, which sounds like a joke until you look at what is actually in it.
The original idea was stranger still. The 2020 car used a 2.0-litre three-cylinder with no camshafts, opening its valves electronically and hydraulically instead. Koenigsegg called it the Tiny Friendly Giant, it made 600 hp on its own, and combined with three electric motors the car was quoted at 1,400 hp and 400 km/h. It was genuinely clever engineering. Customers did not want it. In July 2024 the three-cylinder was dropped.
What replaced it is the Hot V8, a 5.0-litre twin-turbo with the turbos mounted in the vee, paired with a single electric motor Koenigsegg calls Dark Matter. Together they make 2,300 hp and 2,750 Nm, sent to all four wheels through the nine-speed Light Speed Tourbillon Transmission with torque vectoring at every corner.
On top speed the page simply has to be honest. Koenigsegg has not published one for the V8 car, and the 400 km/h everyone repeats was attached to the engine that got cancelled. A heavier car with a different engine, different gearing and different aerodynamics does not inherit another car's number. Three hundred will be built.
Specifications from Koenigsegg. No top speed has been published for the production V8 Gemera. The 400 km/h figure applied to the cancelled three-cylinder version announced in 2020.