It’s rare to find a car that can give a Bugatti a run for its money. Something with weapons-grade engineering, huge gobs of power on tap, looks from 1950s sci-fi and a soundtrack capable of disturbing partially deaf people three towns over is rare, yet Zenvo’s TSR-S reckons it can have a pop. With 1,177bhp and 840lb ft coming from a mid-mounted 5.8-litre twin-supercharged V8, the Zenvo has the grunt down, but whether it has the rest remains to be seen. BARRY HAYDEN Unless you’re a huge petrolhead, you’re unlikely to have heard of Zenvo, so it’s best to lead with a short history lesson. Zenvo, on its 2007 inception, became Denmark’s only car manufacturer. Rather than start with a tiny city car or a luxury saloon, Zenvo’s team of engineers opted to make a lightweight sports car. Company founder Troels Vollertsen had spent his career turning slow cars into faster ones, so when it came to his own, things went from “lightweight and simple” to “hypercar” rather quickly. Powertrain and chassis development is all done in house, with Vollertsen at the helm making sure things are as lunatic fast as possible before they’re allowed to head out of the door.