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.
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Wow 94 miles. That needs a range extender. In fact … I will get a 918 and a P1 instead.
Weird car,weird name,out of this world speed
Tesla, THIS is how you do 0-60 in under 2 seconds. You take a lightweight car and give it just enough power to be traction-limited up to 60. Taking a 2+ tonne car and pumping tons of torque into it just won’t work as the grip won’t be there.
This looks like the car we would all design back in 2005 playing a video game it looks like paper mache and glue sticks
Best place to test the 0-100 kph capabilities of your 4.4 million dollar hypercar? Definitely on a parking to behind a warehouse that is barely long enough, definitely.
Okey, huge shame on you, Mr.WriterMan.
First of all, fact check your story.
Secondly, do you even have the slightest grasp of physics?
“The Owl (nope, still sounds weird) is powered by a pair of 40kW electric motors, putting out a combined 429bhp and 563lb ft. “ 2*40kW is 80kW which is 107.2bhp.
KiloWatt is the standard measurement of power, bhp is also a measurement of power.
If the car makes 429bhp, it’ll be outputting almost 320kW.
Those are the sort of mistakes that should never happen.
4.4 million for an electric car!!! Please leave me off this planet,
I’m pretty sure I took one of these out in split/second