- McMurtry’s production Spéirling PURE debuts next week with 95% new components.
- It still promises absurd numbers: 1,000 hp, 0-62 mph in 1.55 seconds, and 2,000 kg of downforce from the fan.
- Only 100 will be built at $1.36 million each, with first deliveries due before year’s end.
The McMurtry Spéirling is a remarkable vehicle that blends a single-seater racing car driving experience with the go of an electric powertrain and the immense downforce generated by its fan. It’s been smashing lap records left and right, but the vehicles that broke them have so far been only prototypes.
Now the company is teasing the finished series model one week ahead of its full reveal, announcing that it will apparently be made up of a majority of new parts. The teaser image shows a top-down view of part of the vehicle, highlighting slight design changes such as differently shaped air intakes and other tweaked details.
The Spéirling’s specs remain mind-blowing. It makes 1,000 horsepower, all of which is sent to the rear wheels (good for 0-62 mph in 1.55 seconds), it weighs 1,300 kilograms (2,870 pounds), and its clever fan system can generate a whopping 2,000 kg (4,400 lbs) of downforce. And it can do it while the car is sitting still, allowing it to stop upside down and stick to the ceiling.
Powering everything is a big 100-kilowatt-hour battery, which allows for 25 minutes of track driving or around 300 miles of driving on the road. However, the Pure being revealed next week is not road-legal, and McMurtry says it is working on a version that can go on the road but has not yet given a time frame for its release.
The email we got from McMurtry teasing the production model didn’t say much, other than that it will finally be revealed next week. It says “Building upon the extraordinary performance of its prototype predecessors, the new Spéirling PURE features 95% new components, marking a significant evolution of McMurtry’s revolutionary fan car.”
The company will build just 100 examples costing $1.36 million each and says the first deliveries will begin before the end of the year. That’s a lot for a track toy that you can’t legally take on the road, but it will allow its owner to basically dominate any track, especially if it’s a technical one with lots of corners where the Speirling’s downforce fan enables cornering speeds that no other car can match—this thing can pull up to 3.5 lateral G, which means driving it close to its limit will feel like a workout.
McMurtry said in March that it already had 24 orders and plans to finish around two Spéirlings per month in a new facility built in Wotton-under-Edge, the Cotswolds, England.