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This Is The NEW Koenigsegg Gemera – And I’ve ORDERED One! 1700hp & 4 Seats

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Koenigsegg just built a hypercar with a back seat, and Mr JWW put his name on one.

Three days after Koenigsegg pulled the wraps off its wildest creation yet, YouTuber and supercar owner Mr JWW (James William Walker) posted a walkaround explaining why he’d placed an order for one. The car is the Gemera, unveiled March 3, 2020, on Koenigsegg’s own stand after organizers canceled the 2020 Geneva International Motor Show. The Swedish marque calls it the world’s first “Mega-GT” — a 1,700 bhp four-seater built to do everything a family car does, just at speeds that would embarrass most track-day specials.

• Koenigsegg will build just 300 Gemeras worldwide, each with a combined 1,700 bhp and 3,500 Nm (2,581 lb-ft) of torque from a mid-mounted hybrid powertrain.
• The car hits 0-62 mph in 1.9 seconds, tops out at 249+ mph (400 km/h), and can run EV-only up to roughly 186 mph (300 km/h) with a 31-mile electric range from its 800-volt, 16.6-kWh battery.
• It’s Koenigsegg’s first four-seater, fitting four full-sized adults through dihedral synchrohelix doors without anyone adjusting the carbon-fiber front seats.

The Tiny Friendly Giant

At the heart of the Gemera sits what Koenigsegg has branded the “Tiny Friendly Giant,” or TFG — a 2.0-liter twin-turbo three-cylinder engine that on its own makes 600 hp and 442 lb-ft of torque. It runs on Koenigsegg’s camless Freevalve technology and is designed to burn renewable fuels rather than depend solely on gasoline. In JWW’s walkaround, that combustion engine and one electric motor drive the front axle, while two separate 500-hp electric motors handle the rear wheels independently.

That layout gives the Gemera full all-wheel drive and all-wheel steering with torque vectoring at each corner — a first for Koenigsegg, a company that built its name on rear-wheel-drive missiles like the Agera and Jesko. At 1,715 kg, the Gemera is heavier than those cars, but the extra motors and the electrified front axle are what let it launch to 62 mph in 1.9 seconds and still carry four adults and their luggage.

A Cabin Built Around Four Seats

The pillarless cabin is the real departure from anything Koenigsegg has sold before. The dihedral synchrohelix doors swing up and out wide enough that rear passengers climb in without the front seats folding or sliding forward, and the video walks through four dedicated carry-on luggage spaces tucked around the interior — a detail that matters when the car’s whole pitch is that it’s usable, not just fast. Front and rear passengers each get their own infotainment displays, and the car supports Apple CarPlay and wireless charging.

Koenigsegg didn’t skip the small stuff either: there are eight cupholders split evenly, four heated and four chilled, spread through a cabin that’s still built around a carbon structure. For anyone used to thinking of four-seat luxury in terms of a sedan’s back bench, the Gemera’s approach to rear-seat space is a genuinely different exercise than what you’d find in something like the rear seat of the new S-Class — this is a hypercar drivetrain wrapped around a family-sized footprint.

1,700 bhp, 3,500 Nm of torque, four full-sized seats — and Koenigsegg is only building 300 of them.

Mr JWW Purchases the Gemera

JWW frames the Gemera order less as an impulse buy and more as a continuation of what he’s built his channel around — getting hands-on with the newest, most extreme machinery as soon as it’s real. The Gemera’s numbers alone explain the appeal: a 600-hp three-cylinder engine that outproduces most V8s, paired with electric motors that let the car glide silently on battery power before the TFG engine even wakes up. For a creator whose audience already follows builds involving radical new vehicle launches, being one of 300 people worldwide with a Gemera order on the books is its own kind of story.

Koenigsegg’s pitch with the Gemera has always been about erasing the usual hypercar trade-off between practicality and speed. Nobody buys a Jesko to take three friends and their bags on a road trip; the Gemera is built to do exactly that at 400 km/h.

Future Prospects for the Gemera

With the Geneva show canceled, Koenigsegg’s digital-only reveal on March 3 became the primary way the world saw the Gemera in the metal, and walkaround videos like JWW’s are effectively standing in for the show-floor crowds that would normally have surrounded the car in Switzerland. As Koenigsegg works through its 300-unit production run, deliveries and further technical detail on the Freevalve-equipped TFG engine are the next things to watch out of Ängelholm.