It takes time, especially for a car trying to hit those insane numbers plus the small size of the company. It took almost 10-years for VW to develop the Bugatti Veyron and VW is the largest car manufacturer in the world.
@@FreshlySnipeshonestly it feels like a grift. I knew something was fishy when their original prototype a fair few years ago was nothing more than a rolling chassis but they kept having influencers parade it around like a working car. Their current production car is just a heavily modified C8 with a built/boosted LS2. At this point any normal buyer would just get a C8 Z06.
It’s still reaaaally weird how they had the time to produce some sort of 6x6 SUV, the Devel Sixty, but a car that’s been in the works for more than a decade, if not close to 2 decades, is still in development with no actual proof of its predicted performance?
Feels like this car is fake. To reliably make 5000hp would be an engineering marvel not accomplish by a company that’s not investing hundreds of millions to billions of dollars into research and development.
@@mykids5269yeah but like whats the point of building a car thats fast for it to just sit there and move around for car shows? You couldve put a four cylinder in there and called it a day if its never going to show us what its capable of.
the car is real, the engine is too, it's just not the V16 you expect. This is actually the ONLY sold model of this car in the world. They have the engine ready, they are just looking for a transmission that can handle the power. This variant only comes with a highly customized Chevrolet LS.
@@benbrooks566 ehh not really. top fuel dragsters are made for one-time runs. each run, the engine AND the transmission has to be replaced. The thing is, the transmission on a top fuel only has one gear, and the clutch ends up getting so hot, it fuses itself together into one big piece after one run. Plus, for the devel sixteen, you want a transmission that can go for atleast 150,000 miles, which is difficult for a 5,000 horsepower car. In conclusion, no, there aren't any transmissions so far that can handle the devel sixteen or top fuel dragsters.
It’s not gonna hit any crazy speeds. It’ll put up C8 corvette number because it is a c8 corvette with a crazy looking body. They didn’t build shit for this car and never will because nothing can handle 5000 horsepower, besides maybe a drag racing transmission, but that wouldn’t work in a street car
@@dr.livesseysuperchad7093The project was doomed since the beginning. They could absolutely cool it if they had an actual engineering team, and weren’t a bunch of frauds.
thats exactly the reason why. the engine exists and it can pump out in excess of 5,000 horse power. however, they have tested with a bunch of different transmissions and *all* of them failed weather that be the transmission gave out or the differential took a dump.
They literally said it won't make 5000hp anymore lol. Now they're claiming 3000hp even though they don't have a working V16. Its just a corvette witha bodykit.
Remember when this first got unveiled over a decade ago and we were all shocked by the V16? Well, too little too late. The new Bugatti Tourbillon is already miles ahead of this monstrosity.
One of the biggest concerns with making any car with quad digit horsepower numbers is the development of a highly specialised transmission to take all that power and twisting force plus putting it down to the tarmac effectively all the while being reliable enough to be driven whenever the owner expects it to do so. Bugatti had to enlist the services of Ricardo in England to make them a bespoke 7 speed double clutch unit for both Veyron & Chiron. That is probably one of the most likely explanations/reasons why the Sixteen hasn't really gotten anywhere in its development. Like yeah, they've got a working engine from SME but that's just one (albeit important) part of a very complex puzzle excluding everything else like aero, handling, center of gravity, suspension monocoque and so forth. I hope to see this thing become a fully blown homologated hypercar but I don't think that will ever be the case.
The 16 cylinder, 5000hp engine was at least designed and finished! You can go look at the entire project start to finish! Steve Morris Engines. Like a double SMX(even though SMX can make 5000hp on 8 cylinders just not as reliably)
I'm glad someone mentioned the Bugatti V16, but it's an unfair comparison. Bugatti had the combined resources (money and experience) of Bugatti and Rimac.
@@JYMAHJAMES i just read that Devel finished the engine a long time ago, but they couldn't make or find a transmission that can put those almost 5000 HP on the road without dangerous damage or overheating. That means, Bugatti didn't beat them at all, at least not with the engine, but they might beat them with a finished product (with mich less HP of course). I highly doubt it'd make sense for Bugatti-Rimac to produce an engine with so much HP for normal customers anyway. It'd be a killing machine and a waste of time and money. Devel, on the other hand, already has a finished Quad-Turbo-V16 and it's much more capable than what Bugatti might come up with in terms of HP. I believe Bugatti's hybrid engine will probably have a higher quality and reliability though.
sorry im late but for those who dont know. The car was supposed to have a v16 (and it normally will in the future), but now, theres a custum (only 1 made) v8 in it cause it was sold to a man who lived at a place where v16's are not allowed
@@Whateverpoopiepants The strain of the powerful engine can cause serious damage to the car if it is pushed to its limit on a long stretch of road. Therefore, the top-variant is still not road legal. Copied from the net
The power numbers honestly aren’t too crazy, but it’s quite literally impossible to cool the engine, get a transmission that can handle the torque and power, and the fact that this car is a corvette with an elaborate body kit
To the ppl saying its fake. The motor is real and it does make those figures. The problem is that everything else cant handle the motor like transmission, driveline etc..
@@PooFlap69 they have different versions being made, the v8 one is the only one that was sold, people say the v16 needs an insane transmission but idk, believe what u want
Here is a guy who talked to the inventors of this car. (I met them in a car show in UAE) apparently the v16 option is still in progress (not available yet) this is the v8 engine car not v16, sadly the v16 engine may take a very long time to arrive. So it’s just a matter of time…
That's the farthest I've seen one move since I heard of it except for Supercar Blondie's video where she drove it at like 50mph on a track outside Vegas.
My working theory on this car is they’ll start to use the Bugatti v16 after it goes into production in order to lower cost so they can actually make these cars
How will they use the Bugatti V16? They don't have the rights or the designs to that lol. Devel isn't part of the VW group. Bugatti would never give them their V16.
@@connorobeirne934 their could be a deal in the works rn. Just like Toyota and bmw did with the mk5 And devel has only made one production car and it has an ls in it They also have one v16 and it’s not a final version. So with bugatti making one. It would make a lot of sense for them to try and make a deal
@@bengarrison5256 or they just buy a Bugatti engine and build off that. Like Koenigsegg took ford's V8 engines early on and developed their engines off that
Wasn’t there only one production version of this car made and most speculate it was just a shell over a twin turbo c8 corvette and not the monster quad turbo v16 they showed.
Seeing as they’ve been looking for a transmission for years even though the individual components have been completed otherwise, I’m doubting this car will ever truly be out there on the road. Hope they can prove me wrong
