{"id":163395,"date":"2023-05-05T15:26:10","date_gmt":"2023-05-05T20:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/czingers-bonkers-new-3d-printed-hypercar-could-spark-an-automaking-revolution"},"modified":"2023-05-05T15:26:10","modified_gmt":"2023-05-05T20:26:10","slug":"czingers-bonkers-new-3d-printed-hypercar-could-spark-an-automaking-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/czingers-bonkers-new-3d-printed-hypercar-could-spark-an-automaking-revolution","title":{"rendered":"Czinger\u2019s Bonkers New 3D-Printed Hypercar Could Spark an Automaking Revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/czingers-bonkers-new-3d-printed-hypercar-could-spark-an-automaking-revolution2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Helmeted and harnessed directly behind my pilot, I prepare for takeoff as the cockpit canopy shuts over us. It could be a scene from <em>Top Gun: Maverick<\/em> save for the fact that we\u2019re not launching from an aircraft carrier but pulling out of pit lane at the Thermal Club\u2019s track in a final prototype of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.czinger.com\/about-21-c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" >Czinger 21C<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/robbreport.com\/tag\/hypercar\/\" id=\"auto-tag_hypercar\">hypercar<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The $2 million, carbon-fiber-bodied, tandem-seat <a href=\"https:\/\/www.czinger.com\/about-21-c\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" >Czinger 21C<\/a> astounds with specs\u20141,250 hp, zero to 62 mph in 1.9 seconds, a claimed top speed of 253 mph\u2014and recently blew away the <a href=\"https:\/\/robbreport.com\/tag\/mclaren\/\" id=\"auto-tag_mclaren\">McLaren<\/a> P1\u2019s production-car track record at <a href=\"http:\/\/circuitoftheamericas.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" >Circuit of the Americas<\/a> by six seconds. But more impressive\u2014seriously\u2014is the hybrid\u2019s build process: The main structural components are designed by Czinger\u2019s proprietary AI software and then 3D-printed. \u201cThese structures cannot be made more perfect for the requirements inputted,\u201d says Kevin Czinger, who, along with his son Lukas, cofounded Los Angeles\u2013based <a href=\"https:\/\/robbreport.com\/tag\/czinger-vehicles\/\" id=\"auto-tag_czinger-vehicles\">Czinger Vehicles<\/a>. \u201cYou could have 1,000 engineers and they would never get to this solution.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Helmeted and harnessed directly behind my pilot, I prepare for takeoff as the cockpit canopy shuts over us. It could be a scene from Top Gun: Maverick save for the fact that we\u2019re not launching from an aircraft carrier but pulling out of pit lane at the Thermal Club\u2019s track in a final prototype of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}