The Zenvo Aurora packs the most powerful production V12 ever, and 1,850 hp in total
A tiny Danish maker builds the wildest V12 the road has ever seen
Just when you think Goodwood cannot get any wilder, along comes this. Danish hypercar maker Zenvo has revealed the production version of its Aurora, and it is built around what it claims is the most powerful V12 ever fitted to a road car: a 1,250 hp quad-turbo monster that screams to 9,800 rpm. And that is before you add the electric motors.
The engine is the headline
At the heart of the Aurora is a bespoke 6.6-litre quad-turbocharged V12, developed with MAHLE Powertrain, targeting 1,250 hp and revving to a spine-tingling 9,800 rpm. Zenvo describes it as the most powerful V12 ever fitted to a production car, which is quite the claim. That it comes from a small Danish outfit rather than one of the established supercar giants makes it all the more remarkable, and it puts the Aurora in rare company alongside other engine masterpieces at Goodwood, like the naturally aspirated V12 Apollo EVO.
Up to 1,850 hp with the hybrid system
The V12 does not work alone. It is paired with a triple electric motor system, and together the powertrain targets a combined output of up to 1,850 hp depending on the variant. That is a genuinely staggering figure, the kind normally reserved for all-electric hypercars, achieved here with a screaming combustion V12 at its core. It is, in short, a proper old-school engine given a modern hybrid twist, and the numbers are simply enormous.
Two flavours: Tur and Agil
Zenvo offers the Aurora in two distinct versions. The Tur is the grand tourer, with cleaner lines and a focus on road comfort and high-speed stability, while the Agil is the lightweight, track-focused variant with more aggressive aerodynamics and extreme downforce. It is a smart split that lets buyers choose between long-distance drama and outright circuit ability, from the same 1,850 hp platform.
Rare, Danish and very expensive
The Aurora is hand-built in Praesto, Denmark, in strictly limited numbers, and it is priced to match its ambition at a reported 2.8 million euro. It made its global debut in production form at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, with first customer deliveries targeted for summer 2027. Executive chairman Jens Sverdrup said the Aurora brings together power, lightness and emotion in a way that feels true to the company's Scandinavian roots.
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We are enormous fans of Zenvo, and the Aurora is exactly why. A small, independent Danish company building the most powerful production V12 in history, then wrapping 1,850 hp around it, is the sort of gloriously ambitious madness that makes the hypercar world so exciting. In an era where so much is going turbocharged, downsized and electric-only, committing to a high-revving V12 as the centrepiece, hybrid assistance and all, is a beautiful statement of intent. It caps a truly stellar Goodwood for engines, sitting alongside RUF's first-ever boxer-eight and Adrian Newey's V10 Red Bull RB17. We cannot wait to hear it at full noise. Bravo, Zenvo.
