{"id":125464,"date":"2021-07-24T08:22:27","date_gmt":"2021-07-24T15:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/how-koenigseggs-3-cylinder-engine-makes-600-horsepower"},"modified":"2021-07-24T08:22:27","modified_gmt":"2021-07-24T15:22:27","slug":"how-koenigseggs-3-cylinder-engine-makes-600-horsepower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/how-koenigseggs-3-cylinder-engine-makes-600-horsepower","title":{"rendered":"How Koenigsegg\u2019s 3-cylinder engine makes 600 horsepower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-koenigseggs-3-cylinder-engine-makes-600-horsepower2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Koenigsegg Gemera is a four-seat hypercar that can do 0\u201362 mph in a claimed 1.9 seconds, but perhaps the most remarkable thing about this Swedish rocket ship is its 2.0-liter twin-turbocharged inline-3, which makes a staggering 600 horsepower (plus 443 pound-feet of torque).<\/p>\n<p>Jason Fenske at Engineering Explained has the details on how Koenigsegg extracted so much power from such a small engine. It starts with the cylinders. There may not be many of them, but they are pretty big. They\u2019re actually larger than the cylinders in Koenigsegg\u2019s 5.0-liter V8, Fenske noted.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Koenigsegg\u2019s new Gemera makes over 1700 horsepower, with close to a third of that figure coming from a 3-cylinder engine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Koenigsegg Gemera is a four-seat hypercar that can do 0\u201362 mph in a claimed 1.9 seconds, but perhaps the most remarkable thing about this Swedish rocket ship is its 2.0-liter twin-turbocharged inline-3, which makes a staggering 600 horsepower (plus 443 pound-feet of torque). Jason Fenske at Engineering Explained has the details on how Koenigsegg [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}