Zenvo would like to remind you that it, a supercar company most famous for its car catching on fire on TV, does indeed still operate as a company.

I remember that one of my first assignments at Jalopnik was to get all the way over to the west side of Manhattan to tack myself onto the end of a Fox TV segment about this , the Zenvo. I ended up tailing the car around Midtown and went on to take a ferry over to New Jersey for a bigger Zenvo shindig. Under color-shifting lights, beside strolling canapés, men in suits and slicked-back hair promised cars at dealers in no time. That was in 2011.

(Actual Zenvo employees spent most of the night bemoaning that their bespoke twincharged 6.2-liter V8 kept getting confused for an LS-based motor. One guy wished he’d picked a slightly different displacement, if only to stop having to tell people that it wasn’t a small block in there.)

In the intervening years, Zenvo gained fame for its car and having . I can’t remember if in the course of a move I threw out the business card Zenvo’s CEO gave me or if I held on to it. Did I ditch it thinking that the company had fizzled out, or did I save it as a collector’s item of a supercar startup gone by?

Whatever happened to that card, Zenvo is still alive and kicking, as its corporate Twitter account would like to remind you:

Zenvo has become an interesting car company in this decade-long stasis of developing and developing the same exact machine. The ST1 has grown more powerful, with . It’s sort of like the supercar version of . In refusing to die, it keeps refining its one product. Maybe 2021 is the year the world is finally ready for it to take off.