The Czinger 21C Is A Hybrid Hypercar With 'Inline' Seating
There’s a new entry to the hypercar battleground, and at the moment, we can’t tell you a whole lot about it. Sorry.
The Czinger (with a silent C) 21C is merely being teased for now ahead of a full reveal at the Geneva Motor Show, but the Californian firm - founded by a chap called Kevin Czinger - has revealed a few crucial details.
One of which is that the car will have an unusual inline-seating arrangement, a similar to the Yamaha OX99-11. So, it has a central driving position like a McLaren F1, except you’ll only be able to carry one passenger, who’ll be treated to a great view of the back of the driver’s head.
Important detail number 2 is the powertrain - Czinger has confirmed it’ll be a hybrid hypercar. As for what the internal combustion component of the “strong hybrid powertrain” will be, we’re thinking a heavily turbocharged inline-four, judging by what we can hear over the teaser video’s bombastic soundtrack. Kevin Czinger’s last vehicle - the prototype Divergent Blade - used a 2.4-litre unit that started life as a Mitsubishi Evo X engine, of all things.
As the 21C is essentially a follow-up to the Blade, it may go down a similar route. What we do know for sure, is that like the 630kg Blade, the 21C will use “additive manufacturing technologies” - otherwise known as 3D printing - for much of its construction. We’re assuming this is a large part of what Czinger is referring to when it lays out its hopes of a “paradigm shift in the way vehicles are designed, developed, engineered and manufactured.”
To find out how closely it follows its prototype predecessor, we’ll have to wait until 3 March.
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what is strange, is that i thought it was a revisited mazda furai concept when i saw the main picture of the article;
Got me in the feels…
Singer… Zinger… Czinger… How should I pronounce that name without thinking about the Porsche restomods?
I remember seeing the predecessor to this car, the Blade on Jay Leno’s Garage. The big feature was that they 3D printed major components of the car like chassis and suspension, something no one else has ever done. Car companies like this and Koeniggsegg always interest me due to their innovation.
Im guessing that the 21C will be largely 3D printed. As they showed with the Blade, this allows for complex shapes and geometries that are impossible with conventional stamping/forging/casting.