The award-winning McMurtry Speirling will be coming out in a series of 100 street-legal hypercars, the company announced. Even as a prototype, the model managed to set a new record at the Goodwood Festival of Speed – and the road-going version is shaping up to be even faster.
The innovative design features an active aero kit with fans sucking the air from under the bottom of the car. The design team had originally intended to simplify the aero system before production, but ended up leaving it in place with some optimizations. Compared to the show car, the street-oriented Speirling Pro runs on broader tires and is even more efficient at cornering, supporting lateral overloads of up to 3G.
Size-wise, the Speirling Pro is a single-seater that’s 3.45 meters long, 1.58 meters wide and 1.02 meters tall (135 x 62 x 40 inches, respectively). Thanks to having an adjustable steering wheel and pedals, it can still accommodate drivers up to 2 meters (6’6”) tall and weighing as much as 150 kilograms (330 pounds). The whole car weighs just one metric ton (2,200 lbs) and produces 999 metric horsepower (985 hp / 735 kW).
McMurtry has yet to reveal sprint times and the like, but the top speed has already been announced: 306 km/h, or 190 mph. As a fully electric supercar, the Speirling Pro uses a 60-kWh battery that the company says is enough for ten pedal-to-the-metal laps on the Silverstone Circuit. Recharging the pack is a matter of just 20 minutes.