What has four wheels, more than 1,000 horsepower, and costs more than $1 million? Wrong. It's not a Bugatti Veyron. Wrong again. It's not the Lamborghini Sesto Elemento. Strike three. It's not the Koenigsegg Agera R. It is, in fact, the super car that you've never heard of: The Zenvo ST1
Zenvo automotive was formed by Jesper Jensen and Troels Vollertsen, where the company name is a combination of their names. Founded in 2004, it took Zenvo only 4 years to come out with a working prototype, followed shortly by the production of the Zenvo ST1 in 2009. Only 15 cars will be built and sold to pre-approved customers. The Zenvo ST1 goes for a cool $1.8 million USD, but don't worry, Zenvo throws in a "free" $50,000 watch with the purchase of 1 of only 15 cars.
The vision for the Zenvo ST1 was to create an extremely powerful, raw supercar that can handle itself on the track but can also be driven daily on city streets and highways. The design of the ST1 is 100% Danish-influenced. The combination of impressive specifications and design blend into a vehicle that demands attention yet remains purposeful and practical.
The Zenvo ST1 is a Danish sports car with a 7.0 liter V8 that is BOTH turbo and supercharged to produce 1,250 horsepower at 6,900 RPM and 1,430 lb-ft of torque at 4,500 RPM! That's right, now you can add a supercar to the list of things from Denmark, along with Legos and Vikings. The 7.0 liter displacement puts the Zenvo ST1 only 1.0 liters below the Bugatti Veyron, but hey, Veyrons have an extra 8 cylinders, 4 turbochargers and still put out 263 horsepower less than the ST1.
Let's not forget to mention that the Zenvo is built out of a custom carbon body that yields a weight of 3,033 lbs (1,376 kg), 10 pounds less than a Toyota Prius, but who cares about those cars anyways? A Ferrari 458 Italia weighs 241 lbs (109 kg) more than the ST1 and a Bugatti Veyron weighs a whooping 1,129 lbs (512kg) more. Bugatti, however, still comes up as the #1 result when you Google "World's fastest car," while the Zenvo has yet to stake any sort of claims, despite it's boastful spec-sheet.
The Zenvo ST1 is a perfect mix of Danish culture and history, a combination of the fearless Vikings and innovative Legos. It only makes sense that the design configuration of the Zenvo is both menacing and fearless like the Vikings and at the same time, innovative, unique and timeless like Legos. As Zenvo states themselves: "The design of the car is made from free flowing accelerating lines creating the shape of the wheel arches, the roof line, side line and the lower side air intake. The sharp lines are connected by muscular organic surfacing creating dramatic reflections. Contrasting the general surfacing the design features a race car inspired lower carbon splitter." That's some fancy sales talk but you really don't need to read anything to know that this car makes Vikings look like male cheerleaders. Just look at the ST1 from any angle and you know that this car is more chiseled than David Beckam's abs.
The Zenvo ST1 certainly isn't a popular car that touts ambitious claims like the SSC Ultimate Aero or the Dagger GT and while it doesn't directly trump the Bugatti Veyron's world records, it certainly is a car to be reckoned with. After all, the Vikings were never really good at politics or propaganda, but when they came to town -- you knew that you were going to die.
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