FUTURE SHOCK
“With full torque from zero rpm, the sudden shove hits you straight in the solar plexus”
Air or water cooled, naturally aspirated or turbocharged, a flat six engine has been the beating heart of our favourite sports car since 1964. Transplant it for an electric motor and do you still have a 911? More pertinently, perhaps, can it excite petrolheads like you and me?
Justin Lunny thinks so. The CEO of Everrati prefers the term ‘motorhead’, but his passion for cars isn’t confined to EVs. “I’ve owned plenty of 911s over the years, most recently a 991 Carrera S and 991.2 GT3 RS,” he reveals. “My daily driver is a Taycan Turbo S, but this car is lighter, more agile and simply more fun.”
Lunny’s lightbulb moments both happened close to home. “I saw how worried my daughter was about climate change,” he says. “It forced me to confront the issue.” Also, in 2018, the family lived opposite Windsor Castle and watched as the newly wed Prince Harry and Meghan Markle left the chapel in the Jaguar E-Type Concept Zero. The electrified classic never made production, but Lunny had sensed a gap in the market. “Unless you were able
