Shiro Nakamura, Giorgetto Giugiaro, Marcello Gandini, Battista Farina, Harley Earl – these are the names of some of the most influential automotive designers the industry has ever seen.
From BMW to Alfa Romeo to Ferrari, these designers have birthed cars that pushed the boundaries of automotive design. Contrasting the hands-on nature of the design process of the past is the Czinger 21C, the next step in automotive design and creation. It is engineered, printed, and assembled entirely by computational intelligence.
The Czinger 21C is a hyper-car designed and built by computers that transcends the limitations of most production vehicles today. It’s a marvel of creation dubbed a pioneer of the future. Many of the eye-catching design elements throughout the car have been tried and tested numerous times to single out the most efficient and effective designs, resulting in a hyper-car that not only looks amazing but performs as well as it looks.
The car features a slew of class-leading printed metal elements, and as a result, parts such as the front and rear subframe or brake calipers resemble frozen liquid. The core design pillars revolve around being lighter, stronger, faster, and more sustainable to ensure that while the various components of the car are capable of hyper-car performance requirements, they are not unnecessarily heavy. As a result of the car’s efficient monocoque, a carbon fibre ladened chassis, it has an astounding dry weight of 1250 kg.
Czinger states that the design of the 21C is inspired by the fastest manned aircraft ever made, the indomitable Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird. The resemblance is somewhat uncanny. Much like the Blackbird, the 21C prides itself on the eye-watering performance capabilities born from the twin-turbocharged 2,8-litre flat-plane V8 with an 11 000 rpm limit, mated to an 800 V electric motor, the combination of which produces roughly 932 kW. The resultant power to weight ratio is nearly one to one. It’s a road-legal production car, by the way.
It features a 7-speed sequential transaxle gearbox coupled with a hydraulically actuated multi-plate clutch. Alongside the four-motor setup is the regeneration system that recharges the electric motor through its braking system and the firm’s Motor Generation Unit (MGU). According to Czinger spec sheets for the 21C, its aero elements are so effective that they produce 638 kg of downforce while traveling at 161 km/h and an absurd 2 552 kg at 322 km/h. The Czinger team tested the hyper-car at Laguna Seca Raceway not too long ago. The record holder for the fastest production car lap is the McLaren P1 with a time of 2:09 around the famed Californian circuit. The 21C managed a time of 2:11.3 with street tyres and the standard road-legal chassis and interior…
