The 2021 Goodwood Festival of Speed Saw What Might Be the Fastest and Loudest EV Yet
The 2021 Goodwood Festival of Speed is one of the coolest automotive events in the world. Every year it showcases some of the coolest examples of new and vintage speed monsters the world has to offer. This year’s 2021 Goodwood Festival of Speed showcased what might be the fastest and loudest EV the world has ever seen.
What the hell is a McMurtry Spéirling?
McMurtry Automotive is a British auto company that took to the 2021 Goodwood Festival of Speed with its new all-electric compact hypercar called the Spéirling. This thing looks like someone shot the Batmobile with a shrink ray – and made it way faster.
One of the most notable aspects of the Spéirling is how loud it is. One of the biggest cons to the electric car scene for enthusiasts is that they don’t have the satisfying sound of an engine. I’d wager if more EVs sounded like the Spéirling; you wouldn’t hear nearly the amount of whinging from the old boys.
What makes this the loudest EV?
First, let’s get a better grasp on what we are looking at/hearing here. According to New Atlas, the Spéirling is a single-seater designed for track-only use, for now. It wears a full carbon fiber body which measures a tiny 10.5ft wide x 3.4ft high x 4.9ft wide.
The Spéirling is powered by a rear-wheel-drive two-motor e-axle system of McMurtry’s own design, running off a 60-kWh battery pack placed low and in the middle. Power figures aren’t yet available, but the company promises it’ll offer at least one horsepower per kilogram of weight, with the final weight figure under 2,205 lb. The company says it’ll be enough power to comfortably escort you from 0-186 mph in less than nine seconds.
One of the coolest aspects of the Spéirling is the two 80-hp fans set underneath the car, generating more than 50 percent of the car’s weight in downforce even before it starts moving. And here lay the culprit for all the racket.
As previously mentioned, this thing is crazy fast and crazy loud. The power to weight ratio clearly shows why this car is so stinking fast, but the noise from the fans is really something to take note of. The Spéirling stands out in the EV segment that is known for its ghostly quiet cars. The Spéirling makes roughly 120 decibels of what sounds more like a jet engine than a car.
Even though the Spéirling is technically too loud to be run on many city streets and even some race tracks, McMurtry told AutoTrader that he sees the noise as a “happy accident” that brings some needed drama and excitement to an otherwise sterile segment.
What’s next for this super-loud and super-fast EV?
“McMurtry intends to launch an assault on a number of world records with the Spéirling demonstrator in the coming year,” says the monster EV’s home website. New Atlas takes the quote a step further by suggesting that the Spéirling would be wise to go after the Volkswagen ID.4’s records.
There is still no way of knowing when we might see a Spéirling for sale, seeing how this one is still very much in the prototype phase. Whenever (or if ever) that day comes, something tells me this EV might twist some old boys’ mustaches in a way other EVs have failed to do.
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