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LITTLE RIPPER

t looks like something Batman had as a kid and has a name like a Maccas menu spelling mistake but the McMurtry Spéirling can now be yours. Fresh from resetting the outright hillclimb record at the 2022 Goodwood Festival of Speed, the tiny single-seat Spéirling is sort of like an electric Aussie Racing Car (remember those?) except it’s faster than a Le Mans racer. The rear-drive Spéirling packs a 745kW EV punch, weighs under 1000kg and can do 0-100km/h in under 2.0sec – and uses an aero fan to suck itself

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