Stuff - UK (2020-04)

1.7 MILLION

Dollars you’ll

need to buy one

3000

Man-hours put

into each car

80

How many

will be built

790

Kilograms of

downforce

created by the

most advanced

aero package

330

Patents filed

in the car’s

design

THE 21C IN

NUMBERS

Czinger hopes

the 21C will beat the

current production-car

lap record of the

Laguna Seca race

circuit by a full two

seconds.

The C21 has

a seven-speed

sequential transaxle

gearbox with a

hydraulic-actuated

multi-plate clutch.

Which is nice.

goes some way to explaining why
the car can hit 62mph in 1.9 seconds
and go on to a top speed of almost
270mph with the racing ‘aero pack’
deployed. Oh, and it shoots flames
in an X pattern.

Say what?
Yeah, the man responsible for the
engine and powertrain, Jon Gunnar,
said it was the most efficient way
to get exhaust gases out of the
car, seeing as the designers were
adamant on the jet-fighter-style
inline seating layout.

Could this be my Top Gun fantasy

for the road?

It seems that way, doesn’t it? The

great thing about software-heavy

digital design and advanced

additive manufacturing is that,

if you can think it, you can probably

do it. Better still, most of the

cool skeletal design features

you see aren’t actually ‘design’

features at all. They’re the result

of advanced algorithms working

out the most efficient way

of creating very light but very

strong structures.

Crumbs. And what does the future

hold for Czinger?

Of course, like any good Californian

tech company, it believes it will

change the world for good, but

we’ve heard that many times

before. That said, the technology

involved here is very impressive.

If it does indeed help to reduce

the environmental impact of

car manufacturing and free up

designers to be as creative as they

want, then it can only be a good

thing. And if nothing else, the car

looks alright, doesn’t it?