- McMurtry has finally revealed the production-ready Spéirling PURE fan car.
- The single-seat EV makes 1,000 hp and hits 60 mph in 1.55 seconds.
- Despite extreme performance, McMurtry says ownership will be surprisingly simple.
Take a very brief look around the supercar and hypercar landscape and one thing will stand out. There are countless hopeful brands promising outrageous performance, jaw-dropping styling, and the sort of analog driving experience enthusiasts claim they’ve been missing for years. The problem is that most of those promises never materialize into actual customer cars.
Today, McMurtry stands above the crowd of companies that talk big but never deliver, because the Spéirling PURE has officially entered production. And the fact that it’s finally real might not even be the most remarkable thing about this 1,000-hp (746-kW) electric machine.
A Record-Breaking Resume
McMurtry has revealed the final production specification of the Spéirling PURE. The single-seat electric hyper track car first grabbed headlines by destroying the competition at Goodwood. It managed that climb in just 39.08 seconds before going on to rewrite record books all over the globe.
Along the way, it became the first car to drive upside down, shattered the long-standing Top Gear Test Track record by beating an F1 car, and embarrassed an AMG One at Hockenheim by 14.1 seconds. It is hard to put into words just how absurd this car is in terms of outright performance. Now, customers will finally get the chance to find out whether the experience is as extraordinary as the headlines suggest.
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Just the numbers remain difficult to process. A new 100-kWh battery pack feeds twin rear-mounted motors producing 1,000 hp (746 kW), enough to launch the Spéirling PURE from 0-60 mph in just 1.55 seconds before continuing on to a claimed 190 mph (306 km/h).
Perhaps more impressive still is its patented fan-powered Downforce-on-Demand system, which can generate up to 4,409 lbs (2,000 kg) of downforce from exactly zero miles per hour. According to McMurtry, that allows the car to pull up to 3g in corners and under braking.
Hypercar Pace, GT3 Ownership
The bigger surprise is that McMurtry isn’t pitching the Spéirling PURE as some delicate engineering exercise that requires a race team to operate. The company says it was designed from the outset to offer a plug-and-play ownership experience. While many track-only hypercars demand extensive support crews and specialized equipment, McMurtry claims owners can run the car with little more than a competent friend helping in the paddock.
Managing director Thomas Yates tells Autocar that it provides “F1 car levels of performance but an ownership experience that’s more comparable to a [Porsche 911] GT3 RS. One of the key focuses has been on getting running costs of this car right down,” he said. In other words, while one might have to shell out hypercar money to own one, they won’t need a hypercar support team to drive it.
That usability focus drove many of the changes between prototype and production. The final car receives a larger 100-kWh battery, a redesigned carbon-fiber monocoque, more cockpit space, improved visibility, integrated lighting, easier service access, and even storage space for a helmet and HANS device beneath the rear wing. Roughly 95 percent of the vehicle’s components are new compared to the prototypes that set records around the globe.
What It Costs
None of this comes cheap. Pricing starts at £995,000, or about $1.3 million before taxes and options. McMurtry says it’s sold 25 of them so far. That’s impressive in a segment littered with ambitious renderings and broken promises. The Spéirling PURE has already accomplished something many rivals never will simply by existing in production form. The fact that it also appears capable of embarrassing just about everything else on a racetrack is merely the bonus.
