{"id":62742,"date":"2012-04-07T10:20:44","date_gmt":"2012-04-07T17:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=62742"},"modified":"2012-04-07T10:20:44","modified_gmt":"2012-04-07T17:20:44","slug":"sports-car-video-koenigsegg-agera-hits-250-mph-on-the-nurburgring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=62742","title":{"rendered":"Sports Car Video &#8211; Koenigsegg Agera Hits 250 MPH On The N\u00c3\u00bcrburgring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">A 1,200-horsepower Koenigsegg Agera R topped out at 249.54 mph (401.6 kph) on the main straight of the N\u00c3\u00bcrburgring Nordschleife at yesterday&#8217;s Gran Turismo Nurburgring supercar meet-up. No, it wasn&#8217;t a video game, and yes, it is insane.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The driver, Norwegian B\u00c3\u00a5rd Eker, isn&#8217;t even a factory test driver. He is a regular Koenigsegg owner (who happens to own part of the company), simply driving flat out on the nearly one-and-a-half-mile-long D\u00c3\u00b6ttinger-H\u00c3\u00b6he straight. He described the run, saying\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/jalopnik.com\/5899883\/koenigsegg-agera-r-hits-250-mph-on-the-nurburgring\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Pagani Zonda vs Koenigsegg Agera-R on the N\u00c3\u00bcrburgring<\/span><\/p>\n<p><object width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/QRBHbPtxAOU?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/QRBHbPtxAOU?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 1,200-horsepower Koenigsegg Agera R topped out at 249.54 mph (401.6 kph) on the main straight of the N\u00c3\u00bcrburgring Nordschleife at yesterday&#8217;s Gran Turismo Nurburgring supercar meet-up. No, it wasn&#8217;t a video game, and yes, it is insane. The driver, Norwegian B\u00c3\u00a5rd Eker, isn&#8217;t even a factory test driver. He is a regular Koenigsegg owner [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,25,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-sports-car","category-video-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62742"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62743,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62742\/revisions\/62743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}