Zenvo teases third model for Geneva

Danish supercar-maker to follow up TS1 GT with something else you're never ever going to see on the road

By Nic Cackett / Tuesday, 30 January 2018 / Loading comments

It's rather hard to dislike Zenvo. It's hard to dislike anyone building 1,100hp V8 engines from scratch. And even more difficult when they go to the trouble of making idiosyncratic bodies to house them, at the glacial rate of five a year. Then there's the whole Danish thing. Making outlandish cars elsewhere on the continent is rather par for the course; but doing it on the island of Zealand (mainly notable for being on the way to Sweden) is eccentric to the point of irresistable.

Previously, Zenvo had gotten around to doing three things: designing and building the ST1, which sported a twin-charged 6.9-litre V8; then turning it into the current TS1 GT, which has a 5.8-litre twin-supercharged V8. Then slightly adjusting that to deliver a track-only version dubbed the TSR. Now though it transpires that it has being a fourth thing: specifically prepping a new car for reveal at the Geneva show next month.

Zenvo CEO Angela Kashina said: "With everything now in place to launch this fantastic new model onto the market, it's hard for us to wait patiently for the Geneva motor show to share this car with the world.

"This is the fifth consecutive occasion that Zenvo has presented itself at the show and we have always been impressed with the phenomenal response from visitors in the know. There can be no better platform to make a splash with our latest new innovation."

What form that innovation takes is obviously a mystery, although three teaser shots hint at a prodigious use of carbon fibre. That's virtually a given, of course - as is the likely deployment of a force-fed V8 (although of what size or detail we'd be reluctant to say given the manufacturer's obvious zeal for reinventing its in-house engines). Certainly you can expect an output in keeping with Zenvo's other efforts.

It's also worth assuming that the Danes will stick to a pricing regime that has them charging £1.2m for a TS1 GT. Correspondingly, we'd confidently bet our lunch money on the kind of limited production run that makes Concorde's seem prolific.