Czinger 21C hybrid hypercar shatters production-car lap records

Czinger’s 21C has turned a Los Angeles manufacturing strategy into a timing sheet, with record runs in Britain and California built around a car the company says was designed, manufactured and assembled in Los Angeles. The hybrid hypercar uses more than 350 metal 3D-printed components, and Czinger says its production system is the first to bring a production car from its proprietary process.

The 21C pairs a twin-turbo V8 hybrid drivetrain with 1,250 horsepower, putting it in the narrow slice of cars that are engineered for both the street and the stopwatch. Czinger’s owner’s handbook describes the car as fully street-legal and compliant with stringent emissions and crash safety standards. The company also markets the 21C as the world’s fastest production hypercar, while sources list its 0-60 mph time at about 1.9 seconds and the V Max version’s top speed at about 253 mph.

What makes the car a broader industrial story is the method behind it. Czinger says the 21C uses a Human-AI design process, 3D printing, automated assembly and patented in-house materials. The company’s pitch is not simply that it can build an extreme machine, but that it can do so with a production model that moves advanced manufacturing into a U.S. factory context rather than treating it as a niche European specialty.

Czinger Vehicles was founded in 2019 by Kevin Czinger and Lukas Czinger. Kevin Czinger’s background includes Yale Law School, work as a federal prosecutor and executive roles at Goldman Sachs before his automotive ventures, giving the company’s rise an unusually corporate and legal pedigree for a hypercar startup. The manufacturing platform behind the car is tied to Divergent 3D, which has been described in coverage of the company as having attracted roughly $1 billion in investment.

The record results have given the 21C a public proof point. At the 2024 Goodwood Festival of Speed, Chris Ward drove the car up the 1.16-mile hillclimb in 48.83 seconds, setting a production-car record and beating the previous benchmark held by the Rimac Nevera. In 2025, Czinger also staged its “Gold Rush” campaign, which reportedly broke five production-car lap records in five days at Sonoma Raceway, Laguna Seca, Thunderhill Raceway, Willow Springs and The Thermal Club, with longtime development driver Joel Miller credited in coverage of the effort.