New US brand Czinger Vehicles will officially reveal its first car at the Geneva Motor Show next month, and it’s quite the debut. Known as the 21C — shorthand for 21st Century — Czinger’s first vehicle has some startling performance figures.

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You might recognize the Czinger name. That’s because the company’s founder, Kevin Czinger, a former Goldman Sachs investment banker, has been in the automotive game for a couple of decades now.

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After working on electric vehicles at Miles Automotive and CODA Automotive, Czinger left to create Divergent 3D, a company specializing in 3D printing. Divergent showed off its first — and only — car five years ago. The Divergent Blade, used a 2.4-liter turbocharged petrol engine sourced from a Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution and turned up to some 720hp. Although it didn’t make it to market, the Blade served as a proof-of-concept for the 3D printing process, and the […]

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