Unnecessary — Issue 004
1,625 Horsepower.
Zero Justification.
The Koenigsegg Sadair's Spear exists because somewhere in Sweden, engineers asked ‘what if we just kept going?’ and nobody said stop.
There is a number — 1,625 — that should not exist in the context of road vehicles. It exists anyway. It exists because Koenigsegg, the Swedish hypercar manufacturer that operates out of a former military base, decided that the previous ceiling was merely a suggestion from people who were thinking too small.← horsepower, not a typo
The Koenigsegg Sadair's Spear. Say that name out loud. It sounds like something a Norse god names before throwing it through a mountain. It sounds exactly like what a 1,625-horsepower car should be called — which is to say, it sounds like a threat.
The Arms Race Nobody Voted For
Cast your mind back to when 500 horsepower was lunatic-fringe territory. The original Bugatti Veyron arrived in 2005 with 1,001 horsepower and the automotive world collectively had an episode. Then Bugatti built the Chiron Super Sport 300+. Then the Bolide, at 1,850 horsepower. Koenigsegg built the Agera, the Regera, the Jesko, the Jesko Absolut — and now the Sadair's Spear.
Every time the ceiling goes up, someone else builds a taller room. There is no road on Earth where 1,625 horsepower is necessary. The top speed of these cars is illegal in every country they're sold in. And yet. The arms race accelerates.
What You Are Actually Buying
Koenigsegg makes fewer than fifty cars a year, sometimes far fewer for specific models. When supply is this constrained against global demand, the economics look more like art than automotive. Several have sold at auction for multiples of their original price.
Christian von Koenigsegg started the company at 22 with no automotive engineering background, no factory, no financial backing — and an idea that he could build the fastest car in the world from scratch. The Sadair's Spear is that original absurdity, grown up, still driven by the same refusal to accept the limit as final.
The Cost of Entry Into This Specific Madness
Purchase price starts around $3 million and climbs. Insurance runs six figures annually. Maintenance requires specialists who sometimes fly in from Europe. Tyres, if bespoke, can cost tens of thousands per set.
The Spiritual Case
Cars like the Sadair's Spear are important not because anyone needs one, but because they prove the human impulse toward the extreme hasn't been fully domesticated by the age of sensible electric crossovers. Someone asked what happens if you just keep going, and then found out.
Nobody needs it. That is entirely the point.
The House of Kong Take
Coming Up — Issue 005
NFTs were declared dead. Then declared dead again. Then someone sold one for $2.7 million last month. The honest, opinionated take on where web3 actually is in 2026.
