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ken for, despite a starting price of $2.3 mil- lion, which can rise significantly depending on the nature of the bespoke build that cli- ents choose. Amazingly, instead of buying an off-the-


shelf engine for the 80 examples they’re building, the Czingers went to all the trou- ble of developing their own. Lukas smiles when he acknowledges how mad this is. ‘Yeah, we’re pretty ambitious people!’ he admits. ‘The engine is like two superbike engines stitched together into a V8. It revs to about 11,000rpm and produces around 900bhp, out of 2.8 litres – which makes it


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the most power-dense production engine in the world right now.’ So as well as all the patents Lukas filed


for robotics and 3D printing, he then be- came a car engineer as well? ‘Yep, yep,’ he nods. ‘Well, certainly good enough to be in the room and make the right decisions.’ But of course, he acknowledges the heavy liſt- ing was done by a tight-knit team the Czingers quickly established in LA. ‘The car team probably did 60 visa pro-


cesses,’ he says. ‘I don’t wanna talk down the US at all, but a lot of the high-perfor- mance auto culture is in Europe – small


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