The supercar company that built a car that could suction itself to a ceiling is just about ready for production. The car you’ve seen – on its wheels and inverted – was not the production car. That was just a prototype. The production car will have 95% new parts, and the first ones will arrive in customer hands later this year. For now, McMurtry is teasing the final form of the Spéirling Pure.
Production Pure Has 95% New Parts
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We can’t see much of the car in the teasers, which are two images that show the car from the top down. It does seem to have some immediately visible changes, though, including some of the detailing around the hood vents and the rear wing.
There may be some alterations to flatten out the roof, as well. The ultra-narrow cockpit of the center-seater prototypes seems to be much wider here than on the prototype cars. If it is wider and flatter, that would be welcome because the original cars had some very odd proportions.
What won’t change? The absolutely astonishing two tonnes of downforce that the car can generate… while it’s parked. McMurtry’s insane engineers use two fans spinning at 23,000 rpm and rubber curtains underneath that literally suck the car to the ground. This allows the Spéirling to pull up to 3.5G of cornering forces.
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The downforce isn’t hypothetical, either. McMurtry demonstrated this by attaching the car to a platform, which was then rotated upside-down while the car drove slightly forward. With 4,409 pounds of downforce and a weight of 2,646 pounds for the production car, it wasn’t even difficult.
Quaintly British Car With Giant-Slaying Performance
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While the prototype holds lap records on the Top Gear test track and at the Goodwood Hill Climb, the production car will have to set them again if it wants those records to count. Especially if 95% of the parts are new, as claimed.
McMurtry is based in the wonderfully named British town of Wotton-under-Edge in the Cotswolds. It’s not quite the UK’s motorsports valley, but it’s not far away either. Its factory there will start churning out the 100 planned customer cars later this year.
The Spéirling is an electric vehicle, and it offers 1,000 horsepower from its single electric motor. Despite rear-wheel drive, it can run from zero to 60 mph in 1.5 seconds. The 100 kWh battery pack will offer up to 20 minutes of driving “at GT3 pace” and take 25 minutes to charge with a suitable charging station.
Pricing for the car starts from £995,000, which is about $1.3 million at current exchange rates. That’s before taxes and shipping, naturally. The Pure, which is the one set to be revealed, is the race car. The road car is set to come along some time later. It will likely carry a higher price tag.
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The production Spéirling Pure will be revealed sometime next week. That’s just in time to be on display at this year’s Festival of Speed, which is set to take place July 9-12. It will almost certainly be taking another run up the hill climb route, looking to smash the 39-second run that driver Max Chilton managed in 2022.
