McMurtry Spéirling: Is it Still the World’s Fastest Car?

What it is

Carwow's review of the McMurtry Spéirling, a 1,000hp electric fan car that generates huge downforce at standstill and reaches 0-60mph in about 1.4 seconds.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN cites it as the example of an extremely fast production electric car that uses ground suction fans.

• 1 people recommended it
• 1 different months
• 0 strong recommendations
• first 2022, last 2023

What HN commenters said

1. “Carwow has a great video”

   Production electric car reaching 0-60 in 1.4 seconds using ground suction.

   gkfasdfasdf, 2023-10 · Recommendation · in “0 To 100 kph in 1 second”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

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