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HOW TO 3D PRINT A HYPERCAR

“Here’s what it is, man. I want to build really bad-ass stuff, but if you’re a craftsman who is actually a technologist, you need to create the right tools. I want this car company Czinger to be five blocks ahead of anybody else on the planet in creating these tools and expressing them as the cutting edge of the mind.” Meet Kevin Czinger, founder of Czinger Vehicles. Not your average CEO.

A man of humble beginnings from Cleveland, Ohio, the first to go to college from his “very working class family”, where “nobody cracked open a book”, who cites watching Jacob Bronowski’s in 1973 – a BBC-produced series that plotted the history of humankind, showing art, creativity and technology were entirely interwoven – as the point when something clicked. And here we are, 47 years on, standing next to the Czinger 21C –

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