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HOT WINGS

Theidea of unlimited motorsport has been an avenue of fascination denied us since the death of the Can-Am series in the mid-Seventies.

But as a way of marketing a new technology, especially one perceived to lack both speed and excitement, Volkswagen created the ID.R. It is the single most insane electric car ever made, Rimac included, because it can rearrange the driver’s vital organs like nothing short of a Formula One car.

Actually, in a straight line, or at least from rest to 200kph, the leccy VW might have the legs on a current F1 car – it accelerates from standstill to 200kph in under five seconds. In

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