Doing the bare minimum' as a phrase has pejorative connotations. It implies an element of coasting, refusing to surpass expectations and settling for mediocrity - even, perhaps, giving up. But here we are in 2024, when manufacturers (not just of cars) are confronted with soaring production costs and are rigidly committed to reducing their impact on the environment. Products mustn't just be cheaper to make: they must also be lighter than ever before, use minimal materials in their make-up and be fabricated rapidly, using as few resources as possible. Doing the bare minimum, it is clear, is now nothing less than an overarching objective for the industry.
Nowhere is that felt keener than at 19601 Hamilton Avenue, Torrance, California, otherwise known as the headquarters of manufacturing masterminds Divergent - or, as it will no doubt soon come to be known, the epicentre of a bold new era for the automotive industry.
Divergent is best known for being the parent firm of Czinger, creator of the ludicrously powerful and fascinatingly engineered 21C hypercar -a 1233bhp V8powered showcase of what can be achieved with the firm's new-school approach to vehicle manufacturing.
When it was revealed back in 2020, the 21C quickly came to be known as the '3D-printed hypercar', which is a description that is at once both vaguely accurate and something of an undersell. Because there's surely no car, road-going or otherwise, being built right now, anywhere in the world, that can lay claim to such beauty in its engineering.
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