Zenvo Aurora

You're looking at the most powerful V12 engine ever to be fitted to a road car

This 1,250bhp 6.6-litre Brit-built V12 will soon be plumbed into the Zenvo Aurora

This gorgeous mass of metal is the first finished example of the most powerful V12 ever to be fitted to a road car.

Dubbed ‘Mjølner’ and capable of spinning to 9,800rpm, it belongs to the forthcoming Zenvo Aurora, featuring no less than four turbos and 6.6 litres of displacement. It produces a frankly ludicrous 1,250bhp on its own, and then gets a hybrid system for a bit of extra grunt too, with the whole package delivering an eye-watering 1,850bhp to the tarmac.

"Sound and visceral drama is what Aurora will be all about," said Zenvo chairman Jens Sverdrup. "It is not every day a V12 engine is born, so it is very exciting to finally showcase Mjølner. The fact it is the world’s most powerful road car V12 engine was not something we set out to achieve, but is a result of us pushing what we know is possible. This is a hugely important milestone, and the next step will see – and hear – it come to life."

Mjølner - which was developed by Northampton-based Mahle Powertrain - won’t solely feature in the Aurora either. Zenvo says it’ll use various configurations of it in future models, which means we may just see even more power coaxed from this thing one day. Or perhaps there will be a lightweight Aurora RS with two of the turbos lopped off to save a few kilos.


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Zenvo has finished designing the 280mph Aurora ‘Tur’, and this is how it’ll look

Ahead of a prototype being unleashed upon Goodwood, Zenvo unveils one of two Aurora variants

Zenvo Automotive has revealed the final exterior design for its latest project, one that reaches for the stars and will likely leave you seeing plenty of them. Welcome to the 1,850bhp, 280mph Zenvo Aurora ‘Tur’.

The Danish team has signed off on the ‘touring’ Aurora’s exterior design, ahead of a camouflaged prototype Aurora being unleashed upon a poor, unsuspecting Goodwood Festival of Speed later this week.
“The more refined and mature design, revealed with two newly developed colourways on the more classically-styled Tur model, previews the prototype which will feature as part of the Goodwood Festival of Speed dynamic debut on Thursday,” Zenvo told TopGear.com.

Looks... dramatic. The skeletal form employs the Danish philosophy of simplicity: witness the shark nose, that sweeping, scooped bonnet, cavernous flanks, and straightened-off rear. There’s a lot of downforce on offer here too, Zenvo claiming 880kgs at 155mph in the track-focused ‘Agil’ variant.

 
The most powerful V12 production car is (nearly) here: the €2.8m+ Zenvo Aurora

New Danish hypercar is nearly ready - meet the final prototype

You might recognise the Zenvo name from the TSR-S supercar - a brutal-looking thug of a thing with a 5.8-litre twin-supercharged V8 and a multi-axis centripetal rear wing that tipped and twirled according to the steering wheel position. Internet catnip, seeing as it also produced 1,177bhp - which was headgasket worrying in 2018. But there’s something entirely new on the horizon for the Danish manufacturer, called the Aurora. And it’s as related to the TSR-S as a bicycle is to SpaceX.

A quick rundown of what we know so far. In 2023, Zenvo announced the Aurora (named after the borealis) a V12 hypercar that would arrive with two distinct personalities; the track-biased (but road legal) ‘Agil’ (agile) and the GT-bent ‘Tur’ (tour). So we’ve seen the be-winged Agil knocking about, but now we have more meat on the bones. And more reality, seeing as we’ve actually sat in both, and seen them bombing around outside the factory in Præstø, Denmark before they’re shipped to Goodwood’s Festival of Speed ‘26.

Both are completely bespoke items, based on a carbonfibre monocoque slathered in carbon bodywork. But while the Agil goes down the downforce route, the Tur is more grown-up and a deal more intellectually sophisticated. Vague interpretations of any mid-engined hypercar you care to mention, but the Aurora Tur does seem to have that lively mix of traditional forms and that extra special something.

Chief designer Christian Brandt (Royal College of Art and ex-Alfa Centro Stile), describes it with some passion, noting that the aerodynamicists were involved from the very beginning, and that the Aurora takes light inspiration from Danish furniture: it’s got Scandinavian simplicity and rigour, but with the more organic forms that make it a bit more…Danish. Like a sheet draped over the mechanical bits.

 
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