Here's a look at the Czinger 21C Blackbird in all of its 1,350 horsepower glory.

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Here's a look at the Czinger 21C Blackbird in all of its 1,350 horsepower glory.


The Czinger 21C Blackbird Edition is taking flight this week at The Quail, and we're finally getting a good look at it. The 1,350 horsepower (1006 kW) supercar is based on additive manufacturing and pays homage to one of the best planes ever flown. Here's a short look at Czinger's next low-production road rocket.


The name "Blackbird" comes from Lockheed's legendary SR-71 "Blackbird." The SR-71 was designed as a spy plane and is renowned for its capacity to travel at speeds more than Mach 3 (3,704 km/h / 2,301 mph). The Czinger 21C Blackbird pays homage to the seminal aircraft with a lot of subtle details.


To begin, the paint is, as one might expect, Jet Black. The spokes of the wheels are a top-down silhouette of the SR-71. The exhausts are shaped to resemble genuine afterburners, and there's even some "Afterburner Orange" stashed somewhere in the 1+1 cockpit. As far as Aeromotive-themed supercars go, this one is unrivaled.


Aside from those little issues, this is an extremely insane machine in its own right. A 2.9-liter twin-turbocharged V8 engine is linked to a pair of electric motors beneath the carbon fiber bodywork. They typically produce around 1,233 horsepower (919 kW) when combined, making it all the more remarkable that they produce 1,350 in the Blackbird.


Here's a look at the Czinger 21C Blackbird in all of its 1,350 horsepower glory.


It's worth noting that Czinger says it's only producing 80 21Cs, which includes however many Blackbirds it has in the works. It also features the V Max variant, which debuted at the Goodwood Festival of Speed earlier this year.


That automobile is said to be capable of going from 0-250-0 mph (0-402-0 km/h) in under 27 seconds. If this is accurate, it will be quicker than any other production automobile on the globe. In fact, it would be more than a second quicker than the current record-holder, the Koenigsegg Regera, which clocks in at 28.81 seconds.


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