Last Call: McMurtry Spéirling Drives Upside Down

I love it when an automaker goes properly bonkers. I haven’t seen one do something truly wild in a bit, but it seems like McMurtry Spéirling likes to push the limits. Case in point? The video below where a McMurtry is driven onto a platform, turns on its fans to create downforce, and is rotated upside down. It even drives forward a bit before the platform returns the car to its appropriate position relative to the ground.

This is crazy.

For those unaware, the McMurtry Spéirling is an astonishing rocketship of a thing. This all-electric hypercar uses a fan system to develop downforce. It quite literally sucks the car to the road and can create over 4,400 pounds of downforce at 0 mph. To showcase this, the above stunt was created, and boy, does it show why the car can set truly blistering speeds on all sorts of tracks. It’s recently set itself atop the leaderboard at the Goodwood Festival of Speed Hillclimb, the Laguna Seca Corkscrew Hillclimb, and even broken the lap record at the Top Gear Test Track.

McMurtry says the car can run from zero-to-60 mph in 1.5 seconds. The quarter-mile requires 8 seconds, and the car can corner at over 3g.

Watch the onboard section of the video above. There are times when it seems the car is going to go off track or off line, but the downforce means you will make that corner. There is endless grip, immense power, and truly wild capability.

What a machine…