Back in 2022, before it had actually delivered its first mid-engine, plug-in hybrid 21C hypercars, Czinger teased another, very different vehicle concept: the Hyper GT. A much more civilized vehicle than the track-focused 21C, the startup has confirmed that it plans to produce the grand tourer. Power is still expected to come from the same plug-in hybrid powertrain as the 21C. That means that its hood will hide a 2.88-liter flat-plane crank V8 with twin turbochargers, and that two electric motors will help motivate it. In all, the powertrain is good for a hefty 1,233 hp.
However, Czinger said that the Hyper GT
won’t necessarily be based on the same architecture as the 21C, in an interview
with Top Gear. Instead, the automaker plans to produce a new one that is better
suited to a grand tourer. “As opposed to
what you see with lots of other brands where they kind of take what they had
and tweak it. They change the platform a little bit and change the body but try
and use most of the chassis,” said Lukas Czinger, son of the company’s founder,
Kevin. “We have the flexibility of printing completely new parts. That means
we’re not going to platform share. Each vehicle will be completely unique.”
The company can do that because of its
expertise in the field of 3D printing. Kevin Czinger teased that the company
now has manufacturing contracts with companies like Aston Martin and Mercedes,
as well as General Atomics. The last contract is the only one the Czingers can
talk about publicly, but they say they are making the fuselage for an F16
fighter jet-sized drone out of just four pieces. Before it came to them, it
required 184 components and took 12 days to assemble. Thanks to their
simplified, 3D printed design, they say they cut that time down to 12 hours.
That, in combination with the 21C, made
the company quite busy, and was its main focus in 2023. However, it will soon
be able to shift its focus to its plan to build six “very unique vehicles by
the end of the decade.” While much remains to be revealed about the production
version of the Hyper GT, and its followups, it’s clear that whatever the
company announces will be impressive.