Czinger (Zinger) 21C Hypercar

The Czinger 21C Blackbird is inspired by the world’s coolest spy plane

If you’re going to make a special edition supercar named after the SR-71 you better give it 1,350bhp

Cars and planes just go hand-in-hand so well, don’t they? We’re thinking of things like the bonkers Lamborghini Reventon, the Spyker C8 Aileron and the Vector W8, but also pretty much all of Saab’s marketing from the 80s and 90s. Oh, and the movie Planes which was a spin-off of Pixar's Cars.

Anyway, in this instance it was the aircraft that came first, because as you might be able to tell the new Czinger 21C Blackbird is inspired by the iconic Lockheed SR-71 reconnaissance
plane.

Now, the bonkers 21C actually took inspiration from the Blackbird right from the very beginning, hence the 1+1 seating position and Czinger’s ultra-techy 3D printing approach to as much of the car as possible (no, the plane wasn’t 3D printed, but it was innovative and Czinger reckons its tech can reinvent the supercar industry).

So, this one-off special edition brings the 21C story back to the start and goes all-in on the spy plane style, with a jet-black exterior combined with an SR-71 inspired livery. There’s more black inside too (very stealthy) with a contrasting backing that we’re told is ‘afterburner orange’. That’s pretty cool.

 
Czinger to launch 1233bhp Urus-inspired super-SUV

‘Go-anywhere’ model set to replace previously revealed $1m Hyper GT as brand’s second car

A go-anywhere super-SUV, in the same vein as the Lamborghini Urus, will be the next model from American luxury start-up Czinger, rather than the already unveiled Hyper GT saloon.

That model, shown as a two-door, four-seat saloon concept last year, was touted as “the most powerful grand tourer ever produced” due to its 1233bhp twin-turbocharged 2.88-litre hybridised V8.

But speaking to Autocar, Kevin Czinger – who founded the company along with son Lukas – said the SUV could instead take its place in following the 1233bhp 21C hypercar as the brand’s second model.

“There are a couple of vehicle models in the pipeline and so the next vehicle that we do may or may not be the Hyper GT. We have one alternative vehicle we’re taking a hard look at right now,” said Czinger.

Pushed further, he added there were plans for “off-road-on-road” vehicles. Asked if this would take the form of a powerful super-SUV, the American said, laughing: “I can’t say, without really giving up the information. That’s probably a pretty good idea of what we’re going to do.” He then hinted the model would follow in the footsteps of the Urus.

www.autocar.co.uk

Czinger to launch 1233bhp Urus-inspired super-SUV | Autocar

‘Go-anywhere’ model set to replace previously revealed $1m Hyper GT as brand’s second car
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Czinger has confirmed the gullwing-doored four-seat Hyper GT will go into production

Kevin and Lukas Czinger tell TG they’re planning six ‘very unique’ low-volume cars by the end of the decade

“It’s going to go into production,” says boss Kevin Czinger when we ask him about the four-seat Hyper GT that his company first teased back in 2022.

“We wanted to deliver fully crash-certified, fully emissions-compliant 21Cs in 2023, so that was 100 per cent my focus,” he continues. “Also, we have companies like Aston Martin and Mercedes as customers now and half a dozen major aerospace and defence customers too.

“The only one of those that has been announced publicly is General Atomics. We’re their manufacturing partner for some F16 fighter jet-sized drones. We took a drone that had 184 fuselage components and we reduced that to four. We reduced production time from 12 days to 12 hours. They released all of this information, and very rapidly all of the big aerospace companies came to us to ask how we were doing it.”

Want to know the full story of Czinger’s additive manufacturing process? Click these blue words right here. The short story is that the 3D printing process means the firm is rather busy right now. And yet, the 21C hybrid supercar is apparently just the start for Czinger-branded cars.

 
The Czinger 21C Spyder is an open top-road legal fighter jet

But the most interesting bit might be the weird brakes, not the missing roof…

Czinger has made a roofless convertible version of its 21C hybrid hypercar. Because of course it has. If you had a tandem central-seat twin-turbo V8 rocketship which revved to 11,000rpm and developed over 1,200bhp, you’d want more stimulation right? You’d want the wind in your hair. You’d want the smell of petrol in your nostrils. You’d want to not be able to hear yourself scream.

Czinger says with the solid roof panel removed (you have to leave it at home, but there’s a fabric emergency roof you can stow on board) the car only loses 18kg of downforce versus the hard-top 21C. That means you get 1,482kg of downforce at 150mph and that’s apparently a world record for an open-top car. Well, a road legal one at any rate.

0-60mph takes 1.9 seconds. The top speed is 205mph, so long as you remember to attach the roof firmly.

But it’s how the 21C Spyder slows back down that Czinger is especially proud of. This is the first Czinger to be fitted with something called ‘BrakeNode’.

 
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