[{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BlogPosting","@id":"https:\/\/smart-motoring.com\/supercars\/hybrid-supercar\/czinger-21c-spyder\/#BlogPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/smart-motoring.com\/supercars\/hybrid-supercar\/czinger-21c-spyder\/","headline":"The Czinger 21C Spyder: a 1,250bhp Open-Top Hypercar Costing a Cool $2.75 Million","name":"The Czinger 21C Spyder: a 1,250bhp Open-Top Hypercar Costing a Cool $2.75 Million","description":"The Czinger 21C Spyder rips the roof off America's wildest hypercar. With 1,250bhp, a 1.9 second 0 to 60mph sprint and a world-first braking system, it's pure open-air theatre. Just 30 will be built, priced from $2.75 million (around \u00a32.1 million).","datePublished":"2026-08-23","dateModified":"2026-08-23","author":{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/smart-motoring.com\/author\/sean-neylon\/#Person","name":"Sean Neylon","url":"https:\/\/smart-motoring.com\/author\/sean-neylon\/","identifier":34,"image":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/a036ec19c690fbd907de932d0ede682f992b96e00164fbf2238ccfb7c3681767?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/a036ec19c690fbd907de932d0ede682f992b96e00164fbf2238ccfb7c3681767?s=96&d=mm&r=g","height":96,"width":96}},"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Smart Motoring","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/smart-motoring.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/smart-motoring_news_logo_g-e1765846726493.webp","url":"https:\/\/smart-motoring.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/smart-motoring_news_logo_g-e1765846726493.webp","width":600,"height":60}},"image":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/smart-motoring.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/czinger-21c-spyder-side-front-1.avif","url":"https:\/\/smart-motoring.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/czinger-21c-spyder-side-front-1.avif","height":1010,"width":1920},"url":"https:\/\/smart-motoring.com\/supercars\/hybrid-supercar\/czinger-21c-spyder\/","about":["FEATURED","HYBRID SUPERCAR"],"wordCount":1221,"keywords":["Czinger","supercars"],"articleBody":"Low, narrow and knife-like, the tandem layout keeps the 21C Spyder’s frontal area tiny.Czinger 21C Spyder Supercar Unveiled at Monterey Car WeekThe American-made Czinger 21C Spyder is a road-legal, open-top hypercar that\u2019ll see off 60mph in under two seconds – 1.9, to be exact.\u00a0It makes a frankly ridiculous 1,250bhp, only 30 are being built, and each one starts at $2.75 million (around \u00a32.1 million).\u00a0Impressive on paper, yes, but it also looks almost perfect for what it is: a fantastically exhilarating, roofless hybrid rocket.Unveiled at Monterey Car Week in August 2026, the Spyder is the third member of the 21C family, sitting alongside the hard-top 21C HDF and the top-speed-focused 21C VMax.\u00a0So how did an already-extreme hypercar end up even wilder with less bodywork? Read on.In case the company is new to you, Czinger Vehicles builds high-performance hypercars in California. It\u2019s been based in Los Angeles since 2019 and was founded by Kevin Czinger (just in case you thought someone had dreamed up an almost-too-perfect name for the job) and his son Lukas, now CEO, who looks after the operational and engineering side of things.Roof off, wind in your hair: the 21C Spyder’s tandem cockpit sits open to the desert sky.Czinger 21C Spyder key specsCzinger 21C Spyderkey specsPower1,250bhp (2.9-litre twin-turbo V8 plus three electric motors)EngineTwin-turbocharged 2.9-litre mid-mounted V8, 11,000rpm redline (750bhp on its own)0\u201360mph1.9 secondsTop speed205mph (roof fitted)Downforce1,482kg at 150mph, roof off, a claimed world record for an open-top road carPriceFrom $2.75 million (around \u00a32.1 million), before optionsProduction30 examples, hand-built in Los AngelesFighter-jet Seating: the Czinger 21C Spyder CockpitThe 21C Spyder has a genuinely unusual layout: a tandem seating arrangement with the driving console central to the car and a passenger sitting directly behind, ominously like a jet fighter. It isn\u2019t just for show, either. That narrow, inline arrangement keeps the frontal area tiny, which helps the aero and frees up room for the full-length side splitters you simply couldn\u2019t package around a normal side-by-side cabin.And the figures back up the theatre. The Spyder reaches 60mph in just 1.9 seconds, tops out at 205mph and serves up 1,250bhp. The bulk of that comes from a twin-turbo 2.9-litre mid-mounted V8, good for 750bhp on its own and screaming all the way to 11,000rpm, paired with three electric motors: two on the front axle handling the torque-vectoring, and a third bolted to the crankshaft.That full-width light bar and swan-neck wing make the 21C Spyder unmistakable from behind.Roof Off, Downforce (Mostly) IntactThe coup\u00e9 came first, but Czinger planned for open air from the very start, which is why turning the 21C into the Spyder was more about freeing the roof than re-engineering the car around it. The one catch: you\u2019ll need to leave the hard-top at home to enjoy all that power rushing through your hair, though Czinger throws in a stowable fabric roof to get you home reasonably dry when the weather turns.Lose the lid and yes, the downforce drops – but barely. The open-top Spyder still generates 1,482kg of it at 150mph, which Czinger reckons is a world record for a road-legal open-top car. Bolt the removable panel back on and that figure creeps up to match the hard-top HDF. The V8 and its 750bhp are unchanged; the rest, as ever, comes from the electric side.NeuralNode: the Cockpit That Isn\u2019t a DashboardHere\u2019s a party trick the earlier cars didn\u2019t have. Where you\u2019d normally find a dashboard, the Spyder gets NeuralNode: a single 3D-printed structure that folds the instrument panel, air vents, climate controls and the steering-wheel mount into one lightweight piece, with airflow moving through the structure itself. It\u2019s a world-first, it\u2019s standard on the Spyder, and handily, it can be retrofitted to earlier 21Cs.In practice that means the start button, climate controls and drive modes all sit within easy reach on either side of the slightly rectangular wheel, where a set of very tactile paddles live. There\u2019s not a vast amount of room in here, but everything fits and sits organically, which is rather the point.Meet NeuralNode: climate, drive modes and that engine-start button, folded into one 3D-printed structure.BrakeNode: Stopping the BeastCzinger is especially proud of its other world-first: a braking system called BrakeNode. Rather than bolting a caliper to a separate suspension upright and running hydraulic lines all over the place, it consolidates the caliper, upright and fluid passages into a single 3D-printed component. The upshot is up to 15% shorter stopping distances, around 1.5lb less unsprung weight at each corner, and because there\u2019s simply less of it, a system that\u2019s easier to service too.Let\u2019s face it: when you\u2019re driving something like the 21C Spyder, anything that helps tame the beast into stopping when and where you want it to has to be a very good thing. And like NeuralNode, it can be retrofitted to the HDF and VMax, so existing owners aren\u2019t left out.BioLogic: 3D Design From the Chassis UpMore drone than car part: the BioLogic chassis is topology-optimised and largely 3D-printed.There\u2019s comparatively little space for the internals of the 21C, yet everything appears to fit and sit organically, and that\u2019s largely down to Czinger\u2019s 3D-design know-how, developed with its parent company, Divergent Technologies (the same outfit whose process supplies components for the McLaren W1). Czinger describes the chassis as BioLogic: an approach that treats the car as one optimised system rather than a box of separate parts. From the chassis up, everything just fits – which is exactly what lets clever tech like BrakeNode work as neatly as it does.Every Spyder is hand-assembled at Area 21, Czinger\u2019s Los Angeles facility, and homologated for all 50 US states, including California\u2019s notoriously fiddly CARB certification, which Czinger cheerfully calls the hardest process going for a car at this performance level.From above, the optimised “skeleton” reads like something grown rather than built.How Much, and How Many?Czinger will build just 30 examples of the 21C Spyder, with prices starting at around $2.75 million (roughly \u00a32.1 million). And at that money, it won\u2019t surprise you to learn that Czinger will let you customise your car extensively, right down to the colour of individual 3D-printed components, at further cost, of course.Every surface earns its keep, the 21C Spyder’s aero is sculpted, not styled.Czinger 21C Spyder: Your Questions AnsweredHow much is the Czinger 21C Spyder?It starts at $2.75 million (around \u00a32.1 million) before options, and just 30 will be built.How fast is the Czinger 21C Spyder?0\u201360mph takes 1.9 seconds, and top speed is 205mph with the roof fitted.How powerful is it?1,250bhp from a 2.9-litre twin-turbo V8 (750bhp on its own, revving to 11,000rpm) working with three electric motors.What is BrakeNode?A world-first braking system that combines the caliper, suspension upright and hydraulic passages into a single 3D-printed part, cutting stopping distances by up to 15%.What is NeuralNode?A 3D-printed cockpit structure that folds the dashboard, air vents, climate controls and steering-wheel mount into one lightweight piece – another world-first, standard on the Spyder.How many Czinger 21C Spyders will be made?Thirty, each hand-built at Czinger\u2019s Area 21 facility in Los Angeles.Images: czinger.com"},{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Supercars","item":"https:\/\/smart-motoring.com\/supercars\/#breadcrumbitem"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Hybrid Supercar","item":"https:\/\/smart-motoring.com\/supercars\/\/hybrid-supercar\/#breadcrumbitem"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"The Czinger 21C Spyder: a 1,250bhp Open-Top Hypercar Costing a Cool $2.75 Million","item":"https:\/\/smart-motoring.com\/supercars\/hybrid-supercar\/czinger-21c-spyder\/#breadcrumbitem"}]}]