The McMurtry Speirling is now production-ready, and yes, it can drive upside down
The maddest track car of the age is finally something you can buy
One of the most bonkers cars on the planet is now a real, buyable product. McMurtry has revealed the production-ready Speirling PURE, the little fan-sucked electric single-seater that hoovers itself onto the tarmac hard enough to, famously, drive upside down. It is no longer a wild prototype or a Goodwood record-breaker only, but a finished car with a price and a delivery date.
How the fan magic works
The Speirling's party trick is its downforce-on-demand fan system. Twin fans spinning at up to 23,000 rpm suck the car onto the road, generating as much as 2,000 kg of downforce even at a standstill, and crucially keeping that grip even when the car is sideways or spinning. Because it does not rely on speed and wings like a normal race car, the Speirling is glued down from the moment it moves, which is exactly why it was able to become the first car ever to drive upside down back in 2025.
Numbers that barely make sense
The rest of the spec is just as wild. There is 1,000 hp sent to the rear wheels of a car weighing only around 1,350 kg, enough for 0-100 km/h in a scarcely believable 1.55 seconds and a 305 km/h top speed. It can pull 3g under both cornering and braking. Power comes from a 100 kWh battery good for 40 to 50 km at flat-out LMP2 race pace, which recharges in roughly 20 minutes, and there is even an optional portable powerbank to juice it up trackside.
Now with actual usability
For the production car, McMurtry says around 95 percent of the components are new versus the prototype. The battery grows from 60 to 100 kWh, and the car gains genuinely usable touches: 20 percent more ride height with better suspension articulation, wider tyres, F1-style hydraulic power steering, headlights for evening track sessions, air conditioning, custom-moulded seats, a swan-neck rear wing with helmet storage, and a new carbon monocoque meeting global motorsport safety standards. In other words, it is now a track toy real owners can actually live with.
Price and availability
All of this comes at a price of around 995,000 pounds, or roughly 1.15 million euro, before taxes, shipping and options, with deliveries due later in 2026. Co-founder Thomas Yates said the Speirling PURE "marks the beginning of a new era in track driving with mind-bending performance to suit all levels of owner."
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The Speirling is proof that electric performance can be genuinely thrilling rather than just fast in a straight line. The fan concept sidesteps the whole heavy-battery problem by generating grip mechanically, so a relatively light car can corner and brake like nothing else on earth. Turning that engineering stunt into a properly finished, usable, buyable product, complete with air-con and headlights, is arguably the harder achievement. Yes, a million pounds for a track-only single-seater is wild money, but there is quite literally nothing else like it. Few cars this decade have made us grin as much.
We covered the Speirling PURE when it was first revealed. For more rarefied performance, the first Koenigsegg Gemera has been delivered, and Goodwood keeps delivering spectacle, like the life-size LEGO Koenigsegg record.
