Carwow’s Mat Watson was given the chance to drive the world’s quickest-accelerating road-legal vehicle, the McMurtry Spierling and he managed to get it way under 2 seconds to sixty. In case you don’t know the Spierling, it’s planned as a limited series single-seater 1,000-horsepower EV, which generates its own downforce using fans that essentially keep it stuck to the tarmac no matter what speed it’s going at.
This fan-generated downforce not only allows the vehicle to essentially be glued to the road through the corners, even at lower speeds when conventional aero wouldn’t really matter, but it also helps the vehicle launch. It’s quite remarkable that a rear-wheel drive vehicle is able to sprint as quickly as the Spierling, but there’s no denying the fans’ effectiveness.
