To those of you out there who live normal, well-adjusted lives and don’t care about petroleum-based geekery, you might think Koenigsegg is a bar you don’t remember from your varsity pub crawl in Salzburg or a ski resort your friend and this amazing guy she met at a gallery mentioned they visited just before you stopped listening. But it is in fact, a Swedish supercar –oh hang on, super and now mega-car manufacturer- with a rather Germanic name and a penchant for madness.

This is the latest piece of meat they’ve tossed into the fondue of super/mega/hyper car rivalry, and it looks as if Salvador Dali designed a tarantula’s nightmare before handing it over to Grumman-Northrop’s secret division for some aerodynamics.

These are not my favourite type of cars, I find them far too incredulous and fanbro high-fivey for my (in my mind) more austere tastes. Make no mistake, this looks incredible and will be aneurism-inducing (in a good way) to drive. That’s because that One:1 does not mean that the word one is the same as the number 1 because even the Swedes aren’t that sarcastic.

It means this car has a power to weight ratio of 1 to 1! That means that it has the same number of brake horsepower as it does kilograms, which is not only a good thing, but an extraordinary thing.

It means you can pull 2gs in a corner. Yes. You will feel like you weigh twice as much as you do in a corner because of gravity, meaning I would probably weigh more than the car under those circumstances. The mind truly boggles.

They reckon it’s going to be the world’s fastest homologated (never mind) production car with a “simulated” top speed of 440km/h. Yeesh.

It debuts at the Goodwood Festival Of Speed on the 26th June 2014.

It seems one of the Swedish designers left his spectacles on the windscreen one day and thought they looked great, so they stayed. Nice one Jan-Andreas!

This reminds of that scene when that black dog looks back at him in the desert in No Country For Old Men. Chilling, for some dark, unknown reason.

You see that mound over to the left? That’s their design quarters. It extends 59 stories underground. It won architect awards. Like all over Scandinavia. They seem to like that sort of thing.

A bouncer once stole a jacket I had that looked like this in Std. 8. He still derives great pleasure from it somewhere in a pool hall entrance in Benoni no doubt.

You know how you think this car is going to impress girls. Look around. It won’t.

The Agera stares into the void of infinity, contemplating 440km/h…and beyond.

Rear_03: The Agera stares into the void of infinity, contemplating 440km/h…and beyond.