FIRST LOOK: Bugatti & Koenigsegg Designer’s New 1070hp V12 Hypercar

When your resume includes design work on the Lamborghini Huracán, Bugatti Chiron and a couple of Koenigseggs, what next? For Sasha Selipanov, it’s creating his own hypercar: the NILU. This otherworldly wonder is a carbon-tubbed, V12-powered monster, with little to get in the way of the raw driving experience. Which could be quite something, given the promise of a manual gearbox, rear-wheel drive, and that naturally aspirated engine screaming out 1070hp at 11,000rpm. But the remit of the NILU is to offer an unfiltered assault on all your senses, at all times, something Selipanov sums up as the “holy **** factor”. Meaning the exterior and interior design is as full-on as the design of mechanical hardware, with a stripped-back cabin, and an engine bay that clearly took one look at a Lamborghini Revuelto’s exposed V12 and said: “Hold my beer”. In short, this is one is for the purists, so we sent one of those, Top Gear’s Contributing Editor Jethro Bovingdon, all th