Here's The Aspark Owl Hypercar Doing 0-62mph In 1.9 Seconds

Footage of the fully-electric hypercar doing an acceleration test in curiously confined conditions has been released

19 Feb 2018

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…

Here's The Aspark Owl Hypercar Doing 0-62mph In 1.9 Seconds

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.

Comments

That range is absolutely laughable though

Less than 100 miles for $4.4 million…… no thanks

glad its not a convertible

Beautiful shape.
Does look like an owl - a lot.
Sounds like an RC car…
The new Tamiya Owl 1:1 RC car. Scale speeds of up to 200mph! One Ni-Cad battery pack lasts for an incredible 15 MINUTES of play!

Sorry to be THAT guy, but they’re claiming 174mph

The slicks and the testing grounds do seem a tad fishy…it’s as if the firm had no space to test it so they went out and tested the Owl in their background of a warehouse. Cool nevertheless.

This is honestly seriously impressive. But my question is, would this ever be street legal? I can’t imagine letting every boy and girl racer getting this car from their rich daddy and being allowed to drive on local roads with it. I can just seen the amount of crashes going through the roof. XD

Only 50 will be made and besides 0-60mph in 3.0 seconds is what almost every current supercar does there won’t be much difference between 2 seconds and 3 seconds 0-60 if someone crashes it .