Purple-and-Gold Czinger 21C VMax Royal Venom Arrives in Miami with 1,233 Horsepower

A new Czinger 21C VMax Royal Venom has landed in Miami, and subtlety clearly never entered the conversation. The one-off hypercar arrived wearing a deep purple finish from the company’s Liquid series, mixed with gold details spread across the body and cabin. According to the report, the owner paid more than $2 million for the build.

Nobody knows who bought the car. The article only refers to the customer as a “special client.” Fair enough. Few people spend that sort of money on a machine they likely will barely drive.

The Royal Venom configuration pushes the 21C even further away from ordinary hypercar territory. Light changes transform the paint into different shades and reflections depending on the angle. Then your eyes move toward the gold-anodized Bio-Logic components, a first for the 21C line. Carbon fiber appears nearly everywhere, too.

Inside, the layout follows the same theme without calming things down much. Purple-backed bucket seats sit inside a cabin trimmed in purple, black, and white. Loud spec. Deliberately loud.

Czinger assembled the hypercar at Area 21 in Torrance, California. The facility serves as both the headquarters of Czinger Vehicles and the birthplace of the 21C program. The company continues pushing its American-made, 3D-printed approach into territory occupied by much larger names.

Performance numbers leave little room for debate anyway. The 21C uses a flat-plane-crank 2.88-liter twin-turbocharged V8 connected to a hybrid system. Combined output reaches 1,233 horsepower, or 1,250 metric horsepower, alongside 1,061 pound-feet of torque. The article also lists 1,439 Newton-meters. Out of that total, the combustion engine contributes 750 horsepower by itself, while two electric motors handle the remaining share. Weight stays relatively controlled at 3,600 pounds, or 1,632 kilograms.

The engine spins all the way to 11,000 rpm. From there, things become slightly ridiculous. Czinger claims a 0 to 60 mph sprint in 1.9 seconds, identical to 0 to 97 kph. The quarter-mile disappears in 8.1 seconds before the car eventually reaches 253 mph. The source also lists 407 kpg. Strange typo, maybe, but those were the published figures.

The article places the 21C in the same conversation as the Hennessey Venom F5 and SSC Tuatara. Both rivals rely on larger-displacement engines and produce higher output figures. Still, Czinger already sits close to that territory despite arriving from a much smaller operation.

Prestige Imports handled delivery duties once the Royal Venom reached Miami.

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