Dear readers, after this news, we are left with the feeling that the world of hypercars will never be the same again. Discover the Devel Sixteen, an Arab proposal that promises to leave you speechless and meaningless.
This year, the Dubai International Motor Show promises to leave us stunned by such a display of luxury and supercars, but better than a supercar, is to come across hypercars, which are a bit like the unicorns of automobile engineering.
What about a car of Arab origin developed by Defining Extreme Vehicles Car Industry, Devel for friends, which most resembles the crossover of a Lamborghini Veneno with the Lamborghini Egoista prototype, because aesthetically that's what it's all about?
The interior will look for details from Koenigsegg Agera, in which the design of the wheels also has certain similarities, if it weren't for the negative “offset” a little more pronounced and we would be seeing a copy. Looking to the rear, the inspiration certainly came from the 'Batman' movies of the '90s, with the 'Batmobile' and its jet propulsion turbine in the rear. But leaving aside the comparisons or aesthetic similarities that make us popularize the concept of “dejá vu”, let's move on to the colossus that inhabits the bowels of the Devel Sixteen.
According to the brand we are talking about a block with 7.2 liters, V16 and nothing more, nothing less, pay attention, 5000 horsepower. I swear it's not editorial rogue, I myself thought I was reading the technical file of some Hotweels vehicle, but then I just laughed.
It's because? Let me explain to you: Devel achieves the prodigy of a quad-turbo V16, that is, with four turbos, just like the Bugatti Veyron, extracting power from the Veyron's 5 W16 engines. Okay, come on, with 5 horses less. It's still amazing and believe me it's not impossible, but to make it really work on the road and in conditions of use other than the competition engines of any dragster, is another thing entirely.
Now, dear readers, if you ask me if I know of any transmission, namely, gearbox, that would withstand such punishment? I'll answer your existential question: I can only think of one and it's ATI Racing's Th400, which equips dragsters with more than 3000 horsepower.
Revealing the performance, which I would call optimistic for the Devel Sixteen, the brand proposes 560km/h of top speed, but calm down, don't lose your senses now, because the acceleration from 0 to 100km/h is something for just 1.8s , yes they read well, they don't believe! I myself have doubts. That is, if we are in gear, the 2nd or 3rd, we do not lose consciousness, due to the great G-force that will catapult us into hyperspace and make our internal organs want to hug our spine.
If in the meantime the brutal engineering and development work that Michelin had with the Bugatti Veyron came to your mind, so that it could have some cool tires for the road and still pass the 400km/h barrier, I'll tell you that right now it is It's likely that Michelin engineers feel they've given them a certificate of stupidity in the brand's 100-year history. Pirelli, on the other hand, just wants its high-end tires to withstand ¾ of the maximum speed of the Devel Sixteen.
You can sit comfortably to know the proposed price for the Devel Sixteen, which is around 5 million Dirhams, or 1 million euros. After all, there are more expensive supercars, but what they promise is probably far more real than this Devel Sixteen's extremely audacious pretensions.
The Devel Sixteen is another one of those proposals for Sheik to see and spend his precious petrodollars on a machine that only has cinematic potential, because in reality, it is still too green when it comes to engineering compared to other competing proposals.
