Here's The Aspark Owl Hypercar Doing 0-62mph In 1.9 Seconds
The makers of the dubiously-named Aspark Owl made an astonishing claim when revealing the car at the Frankfurt Motor Show. Few technical details about the car’s powertrain had been revealed, but nonetheless, a ridiculous sub-two second 0-62mph time was touted.
Well, now that boast seems a little less ridiculous, as footage of an Owl prototype hitting the benchmark speed in just 1.921 seconds has been released. But there’s a fairly hefty caveat to go along with the feat: the car was wearing slick tyres.
It’s still impressive though, particularly given where the car was doing the test runs: at the back of a warehouse, with barely enough room for the car to get to 62mph and brake to a standstill. The Japanese firm behind this thing are clearly happy to shirk health and safety considerations for the sake of Internet glory…
The Owl (nope, still sounds weird) is powered by a pair of electric motors, putting out a combined 429bhp and 563lb ft. Doesn’t sound like a huge amount, but it weighs just 850kg - hence the sub-two second 0-62mph sprint. Given time, it might well manage that on road tyres too.
It’ll have a range of 94 miles, and a top speed of 174mph. Assuming it goes into production and doesn’t end up being yet another piece of hypercar vapourware, just 50 will be made, costing $4.4 million each.
Growing up on a diet of World Rally Championship highlights and lengthy Gran Turismo 2 sessions, a life in cars was as good as inevitable for Matt.
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Bruce Wayne approves this car.
Cool but $4.4 Million is too much for this.
Ryosuke Takahashi (Miata Squad) (RX-7 Squad) (aka GatheringAgate)
I HATE electric cars with all my life, but that’s a pretty sick feat.
#same
Looks beautiful
Nope… Don’t like it!!
This proves how ridiculous/impossible Tesla’s claimed 0-60 time is for the roadster is. If this electric car needs slicks and a very acceleration biased gearing to do 0-60 in 1.921 seconds, then how is Tesla going to manage it in a car on road tyres with a 250mph top speed in less time? #science
I’m sure that, back in the day, people where saying the same thing about the Veyron.
Tesla will probably hire some tire company to make 3 sets of tires.
1: A super sticky, barely road legal drag tire, almost like what’s on the demon
2: A harder compound but still driveable, top speed tire.
3: Some normal, low profile, all season tires for fuel consumption.
Tesla’s acceleration figures have always been rather dodgy - this is at least partly because they don’t count the 1-foot rollout. In any case, 0-60 figures on hypercars should be taken with a pinch of salt since they are all traction-limited so it depends heavily on the tyres and conditions. A better metric is 0-124 or even 0-186mph.
“Aww yeah that’s right” sees it’s electric “Oh… Well that’s not so amusing anymore”
Electrify- No never mind those jokes are dead.
Too bad it’s ugly..