UAE-based car manufacturer Devel is testing its hypercar prototype named the Sixteen out in the open, as a recent YouTube video suggests. The author of the video claims the car is ready for production.
It doesn’t look like the Sixteen wears any camo, but its unusual black and white paint scheme could still act as a means of camouflage. The engine type under the hood is unknown. An earlier video showed the same car tested on a racetrack with a V8.
The range-topping Devel Sixteen is supposed to come to us packing a giant turbocharged V16 with over 12 liters of displacement. The company assembled the block from two U.S.-made V8 blocks. The resulting output should amount to 5,000 horsepower (3,700 kilowatts) or close to that, but rumors are going around that a hypercar like that would never be able to become street-legal. Road-worthy examples will purportedly ship with 8- and 16-cylinder engines under the hood and between 1,500 and 3,000 horsepower (1,120 – 2,240 kW).
We are promised that the V16 version will sprint 0-100 km/h (0-62 mph) in less than two seconds, as well as break through the 500 km/h (310 mph) barrier. Pre-orders are already being registered for the Devel Sixteen, which was originally announced with a concept version in 2013, but the final production car has yet to be shown to the public. Furthermore, Devel claims delivering each example will take at least eight months, so the waiting queue will likely be long. Preliminary pices lie within the $1.6 - $$2 million USD depending on the engine.