The McMurtry fan car is going into production, and only 100 will exist
The car that sucks itself to the road is finally heading to customers
One of the most extraordinary cars of the decade is about to become real. McMurtry will reveal the production version of its Speirling PURE next week, turning the record-smashing, fan-powered electric track car from a prototype into a machine you can actually buy, if you are one of just 100 people. The British firm is teasing it with a single, very fitting word: thunderstorm.
A reveal next week
McMurtry has confirmed it will fully reveal the production Speirling PURE next week. This is the final, customer-ready iteration of the car, and the company says it comprises 95 percent new components compared with the prototypes that made the name famous. In other words, this is not a lightly tidied-up show car: it is a genuinely re-engineered machine built to be sold, run and lived with.
Why the Speirling is so special
The Speirling is a fan car. Instead of relying on wings and bodywork to generate downforce, it uses fans to actively suck the car to the ground, producing huge grip at any speed, even from a standstill. That technology is what made it a record breaker, most famously smashing the outright hillclimb record at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, as well as setting a benchmark lap at the Top Gear test track. Few modern performance cars have a party trick quite this dramatic.
This time it is about usability
With the performance already proven by records around the world, McMurtry says the focus for this final version is ease of ownership and usability. That is an interesting and grown-up priority for such an extreme machine, and a sign the company wants the Speirling PURE to be a car owners actually use rather than a one-trick record car. Named after the old Gaelic word for thunderstorm, it is designed and built at McMurtry's headquarters in the Cotswolds in England.
How many, and when
Production will be strictly limited to no more than 100 examples of the Speirling PURE, and first customer deliveries are due to begin later in 2026. Full technical details, including final specifications, are expected at next week's reveal.
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The Speirling is the most genuinely original performance car concept in years, and the fact that a tiny British firm is putting active fan-car downforce into customer hands is something to celebrate. Everyone else is chasing the same horsepower numbers, while McMurtry has gone and reinvented how a car grips the road. Focusing the production version on usability is the smart move too, because a record car nobody can actually drive is just a science project. If the PURE keeps even a fraction of the prototype's otherworldly ability and adds real-world manners, it could be one of the most thrilling cars on sale, full stop. Roll on next week.
