Artificial intelligence is all well and good… for some things. Customer service chatbots, digital assistants like Apple’s Siri and Amazon’s Alexa as well as facial recognition software to unlock your phone. AI has even been useful in automotive development for some time now, for features ranging from relatively simple maps and navigation to various levels of semi-automated driving technology.

Using artificial intelligence to design a car from the ground up, though? How? And, perhaps the more important question is, why?

Performance, obviously. Maybe bragging rights, as well.

Meet the Czinger 21C, a new hybrid supercar developed and built in California with a unique and proprietary artificial intelligence system. We’ll take a look at this car’s origins and design, and how it compares to other boutique sports cars on the market. Hint: it’s not just high-tech, it is the absolute highest tech.

First, let’s unpack the name. Czinger, pronounced as “singer,” is named for the company’s founder, Kevin Czinger. Simple enough. The model name, 21C, stands for “21st Century.”

Czinger wants to be a different kind of car manufacturer, offering more advanced, better-performing vehicles than rivals in the elite and exclusive hypercar segment. To that end, Czinger vehicles are built with a new production process we’ve never seen before, one that enables the company to switch it up, introduce new models faster and…