‘Sir David is now in his 80s but he’s one of the most prolific inventors in the UK. ‘Sir David McMurtry is an amazing chap,’ says Thomas Yates, the young MD chosen by McMurtry to head up this new British company, based half an hour from Castle Combe in modest premises in Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire. ‘Spéirling’ is Irish and means thunderstorm, but who or what is McMurtry? Make it very compact and imagine how much more exploitable it would be too. Imagine how much more biddable and engaging and dynamic that would be. McMurtry gets it it is creating an electric car with the same power-to-weight ratio of 1bhp per kg, but the numbers that take it there are halved: close to 1000bhp and a weight of less than 1000kg. Yet it seems like every new electric supercar that’s announced is built on the established EV model and promises 2000bhp and 0-60mph in two seconds but weighs getting on for 2000kg. This is the stuff that really matters, most of the time. Draw up a list of attributes of a driver’s car, however, and standing-start acceleration will be ranked a long way down, along with maximum speed, because it’s not as relevant to the thrill of driving as response, dynamic agility and feel and feedback.
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