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Oryx V12 — The Specification Book

T H E S P E C I F I C AT I O N B O O K O R Y X V12 N AT U R A L LY A S P I R AT E D · 6, 4 9 9 C C · 1 2 ,0 0 0 R P M CONCEPT LOCKED OCTOBER 2026 T H E AT L A S D R I V E MARRAKECH TO TINGHIR
O R Y X V12 CONTENTS A CAR WITH ONE ARGUMENT Twelve cylinders, six gears, two seats, three pedals and nine hundred and ninety kilograms. Nothing else. IN THIS BOOK I FOREWORD The Argument 03 Why naturally aspirated, why a manual, why light II The Engine 05 A 65° V12 that breathes in plain sight III…
P L AT E 1 Front three-quarter, left. Atlas Chalk over exposed woven carbon; the roof snorkel; the first of the gold I · THE ARGUMENT stacks under the engine glass. CHAPTER I Nothing between the driver and the engine but carbon, glass and air. Every hypercar of the last decade has been an argument…
O R Y X V12 I · THE ARGUMENT N.A. H kg W H Y N AT U R A L LY A S P I R AT E D WHY A MANUAL WHY LIGHT A turbocharged engine answers the throttle through a column of air that has to spin up a turbine first. A naturally aspirated engine an‐ swers through a throttle a few centimetres from the inlet…
P L AT E 2 The engine cover from above. Twelve gold-anodized stacks, six to a bank, under two glasses either side of the carbon spine fin and its louvres. CHAPTER II · THE ENGINE Twelve open throats. Under two panes of glass either side of the carbon spine, the V12 is on show. Air ar‐ rives through…
O R Y X V12 II · THE ENGINE Architecture F I G U R E 1 · S E C T I O N T H R O U G H T H E B A N K S , S C H E M AT I C 65° THE ENGINE, AS LOCKED 1 BO RE 98 2 .0 ST 3 RO KE Naturally aspirated V12 Bank angle 65° Mounting Mid, longitudinal, semi-stressed Displacement 6,499 cc Bore × stroke 98.0 ×…
O R Y X V12 II · THE ENGINE THE REDLINE 5 6 7 8 12,000 9 4 R P M , L I M I T E R AT 1 2 ,1 0 0 10 3 11 2 12 1 13 ×1000 r/min 0 The cockpit tachometer reads from zero to fourteen thousand, with its red arc at the end of the sweep. The plates leave its face clean; it is redrawn here with its numerals…
O R Y X V12 HEIGHT 1,095 III · WEIGHT WHEELBASE 2,700 LENGTH 4,480 P L AT E 4 Profile, left. Dimensions in millimetres; width 2,010. The carbon channel below the door runs from the front wheel to the rear. 990 CHAPTER III · WEIGHT KILOGRAMS DRY · 1,085 KERB The grams that remain are mostly engine.…
P L AT E 5 The cockpit from just behind the driver’s seat. Drilled three-spoke wheel, the oval binnacle and its three dials, six guarded toggles, the lever in its open gate. C H A P T E R I V · T H E G AT E Six speeds, one hand. 1 3 5 2 4 6 The gate, three planes, H-pattern. Gold marks neutral. IV…
O R Y X V12 I V · T H E G AT E 2 3 1 4 6 7 5 P L AT E 6 The cabin from above, drawn with the roof lifted away to show it whole. The car itself has a fixed carbon roof carrying the snorkel, as plates 1, 3 and 4 show. THE COCKPIT, ITEMISED M AT E R I A L S CABIN A cockpit, not a lounge. Three…
P L AT E 7 Front, dead-on. The low nose between two high fenders; the roof snorkel on the centre line. CHAPTER V · THE FORM PROPORTION WHEELS AND BRAKES Structure shown where it earns it. Mid-engined, with a cab-forward glass canopy and a long rear deck over a long en‐ gine. The nose drops very low…
O R Y X V12 V · THE FORM 12 2 1 Six a bank under two glasses either side of the spine fin, gold anodized, visible from outside the car at every angle but dead-on front. The engine is the ornament. Large, round, side by side, centred and high in an open black honeycomb that shows the gearbox and the…
P L AT E 9 The north side of the Tizi n’Tichka. The N9 ladders down the slope in stacked hairpins: second-gear corners joined by third-gear straights. C H A P T E R V I · T H E AT L A S Over the Tichka. The Oryx was shown on the road it was drawn for: the N9 from Marrakech over the High Atlas, then…
O R Y X V12 V I · T H E AT L A S The road F I G U R E 3 · T H E R O U T E , S C H E M AT I C , N O R T H U P HIGH MARRAKECH N9 ATL AS Todgha gorge Boumalne Dadès TINGHIR TIZI N’TICHKA sign 2,260 m · GPS 2,205 m Kelaat M’Gouna N10 Skoura OUARZAZATE Schematic: positions approximate, not to scale. The…
P L AT E 1 0 · T O D G H A The narrows near Tinghir, where the walls close in and the engine has nowhere to go but up. VI · The At las 15
O R Y X V12 V I I · S P E C I F I C AT I O N CHAPTER VII Specification ENGINE LOCKED 12 OCTOBER 2026 CONCEPT, DESIGN FIGURES CHASSIS Type Naturally aspirated V12, 65° Position Mid, longitudinal, semi-stressed Displacement 6,499 cc Bore × stroke Structure Carbon-fibre monocoque, aluminium rear…
O R Y X V12 V I I · S P E C I F I C AT I O N THE NUMBERS, CHECKED Invented once, then held to physics. DISPL ACEMENT THE POWER CURVE CLOSES 12 × π/4 × 9.80² × 7.18 cm 610 Nm × 9,000 rpm × 2π / 60 = 6,499 cc = 575 kW, below the 592 kW peak Bore and stroke close on the stated capacity to the cubic…
12,000 O R Y X V12 Naturally aspirated. Six speeds, one hand. Nine hundred and ninety kilograms, and nothing between the driver and the engine but carbon, glass and air. 6,499 CC · 805 PS · 990 KG · 350 KM/H CONCEPT · MARRAKECH TO TINGHIR