Car Fact #74 — August 29, 2026

The Koenigsegg Gemera’s quad-cam flat-plane crankshaft engine achieves such extreme piston speeds that it requires a custom titanium connecting rod design with deliberately weakened sections that flex microscopically under load, distributing stress more evenly than rigid rods and allowing the engine to survive acceleration cycles that would shatter conventional connecting rods—a solution so counterintuitive that it transforms apparent structural weakness into genuine engineering strength.