McMurtry Spéirling: is this 1,000bhp baby EV Batmobile the future? | Top Gear
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- Опубликовано: 2 дек 2021
- It may look like Kinder’s started popping toy Batmobiles in its eggs, but this dinky device apparently beats a Chiron to 186mph - with turbines in place of a rear wing. The stats on the prototype are promising, and daft - think around 1,000kg, and around 1,000 electrically powered horses to move it. What’s even more promising (and perhaps equally as daft) is there’s a one-make series of these being touted. We’re sold. Adorable madness.
There’s plenty to scramble your brain and get your head around, so allow Top Gear Magazine’s Ollie Kew to walk you around this weird and wacky thing. And apologies for the sound. The person in charge of that is now on tea-making duties. Forever.
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This car just broke the speed record at Goodwood in an absolutely impressive manner!
However, whilst we've learned that a rear wing kills his abilities he needed one to set a new WR at Goodwood. Just imagine...
Nice spot. I guess they decided a rear wing was needed
@@Flopsaurus they did decide it was necessary but only because they wanted some kind of backup in case the fans failed. The driver would be left without downforce so they ran the wing for safety.
The addition of the rear wing gets explained on this vid: ruclips.net/video/qTgL8_1GDI0/видео.html
@@Techn9cian123 no the driver said they need it for high speed downforce, at low speed its enough but at high speed they need additional downforce
@@Flopsaurus They need to add adaptive aero of the wing.
I've always wanted more downforce whilst parking.
looks like someone was inspired by Captain Falcon's Blue Falcon.
Useful in a hurricane
Pro-Tip for more downforce whilst parking: load some bags of cement in the trunk
Lmao
Now thinking about it, it is useful to have lots of downforce while parking. It solves the age long problem of traction of the line, genius really.
Love the engineer's reaction to the idea of making a two-seater.
"Passenger, passenger, passenger... ...oh yeah, I know, like in sidecar racing? No, it doesn't really need one of those."
He is like no dumb dumb I did not do all this to haul groceries of impress your boyfriend 😅, it's the fasted electric car ever built. Lol
"Watch this space a year later" and after setting the goodwood hill climb record I can indeed confirm that he wasn't kidding
It's a bizarre machine but I'll always appreciate someone attempting to think outside the box and do something truly different. Once upon a time, that was Rimac, Pagani, Koenigsegg... if you go back long enough, even established brands like Ferrari were once the "new kid on the block," so to speak. Besides, any push towards better EV performance and motorsport is good for everyone.
Its actually not a new idea, but it is neat ruclips.net/video/wHCfkKiEqDQ/видео.html
Vacuum for downforce has been around for a long time
Koenigsegg is STILL innovating
@@R400TVR Why? We really need something to help replace fossil fuels eventually.
@@R400TVR So you're just going to ignore the fact we need to ween ourselves off fossil fuels? I'm a petrol head too, but we're really fucking the Earth up at the moment.
I love how tiny it is. Let's hope this reverses the cycle of cars keep getting bigger
Racecars always tended to be smaller due to lower safety standards and different materials.
@@someonejustsomeone1469which is weird because a bigger car is not necessarily a safer car
@@miketiller690 it boils down more to specs. If there are performance and fuel regulations in place then larger cars will invariably be fine tuned to be safer.
@@someonejustsomeone1469Most road deaths are pedestrian and a vehicle hitting an object. A lighter vehicle would be safer with either of these.
@@freddybell8328 I'm not talking about road cars and pedestrians, I'm strictly referring to circuit racing. But you are right, though. Small road cars are safer in that regard.
They absolutely need to make a racing series with this car. The principles of great racing are in the core of it.
„Babe, can we please watch tiny electric fan Batmobil racing after dinner?“
This would be a exiting racing series, all drivers in the same cars, 10 of these on the track battling it out.
It would be really cool to see but it will be a short race. With 1000hp motors (745kW) and 60kwh battery the battery will be empty after 4 minutes full throttle. (Given 95% motor efficiency)
@@ceesmvanwijk oof
@@ceesmvanwijk the battery life could be extended 2X to 4X using regenerative braking and given the fact that most circuits have full throttle only a fraction of the time. Furthermore the battery size could be increased and designed to be quickly replaced in a pit stop. F1 obsolete.
Great looking car and nice to see them making small cars instead of just light cars.
3:47 I like this guy, his response to his car being called a "toy" while still having a battery comparable to the ID3. Its almost like he's stifling back a childish "hehehe" with the sheer absurdity of the thought, yet the fact its the reality.
It has a capacity like an ID3 in a much smaller lighter car. Interms of actually how the battery functions and is built. Vastly different when it has to survive Track Use stress loads. M.E.B. platform is on the low end of thermal management cooling abilities.
I always wondered what a 1000hp hairdryer sounds like
Just shattered the Goodwood Hill run.. Who's laughing now?
Yeah but it's still a record shattering hair dryer
@@AmassMoreMoney 20 year old record lol
Like what I think 😂
"That's all it is, guys. We just need to get a little louder, that's all." - South Park Biker or this guy
Seeing this thing perform brought me back to watching the old Batman series..All the shots of the Bat Mobile were sped up for effect....The strange sensation comes over me when I realize, this thing is actually that fast and it only appears as if some one was manipulating reality. Mind numbingly Cool.
The thing went like it was shot from a railgun today at Goodwood, destroying the record. Easily the fastest 0-60 ever. 😎 And it cleaned the track. 😂
Can't wait to see one with a Dyson livery
That would suck.
:D
Downsized 4-cylinder cars and so on are often criticized for sounding “like a vacuum cleaner”. Here we finally have a car that takes that literally.
Attach a bag to the back and you can clean up dusty racetracks before the other series’ races…!
Love the concept but I was thinking the same thing about the sound.
was my first thought too, a loud vacuum cleaner
They shouldn’t have left the revs at a constant rpm, if you keep bliping it it could’ve sounded pretty cool
My uploaded paint schemes for the Formula E electric race cars on forza motorsport 7 with a Black and Decker livery are quite successful. I think everyone appreciates that they do sound like an electric drill.
drive anything fast enough and all you're gonna be hearing is the wind
I'm not big on electric vehicles. BUT, Batman is all about the new tech, so this is fitting!
this is the closest thing to ironman suit experience for track day. wicked concept!
Where is the adult version?
:))
My favourite EV by far. I hope they set a laptime at LeMans.
it would also be nice to take him for a walk on the Nordschleife and see what he can do
My "only" favorite EV 😅
This car will shatter lap times everywhere!!
They will have to creat a new class of car and racing for this machine!
Welllll
Yes but no?
Is it? Well it just demolisehd the hillclimb record at Goodwood. 2000 kg of static downforce by the fan alone is insane. Half a ton, they came a lot since this model.
As a car enthusiast I've always hated EVs, but this car is really starting to change my mind completely, it even sounds good, I really thought it had a v12 during the intro!
On another note; Why are people describing it as a bat mobile? Bat mobiles are ugly but this one is truly gorgeous! It looks like it's been shaped by the wind.
Why are you so ignorant ?
I would say it's because the looks is very reminiscent of the 1980s Batmobile design with the center bubble cockpit flanked by the 2 giant fenders on the sides in a narrow package. The fins on this thing is also something you'd expect to see on a Batmobile. lol
Batmobiles are only as ugly or as gorgeous as the vision of the people who drew the comic strip or crafted the movies. I have to admit, when I first saw the car on the Festival of Speed hill, I immediately thought of a Batmobile. Not only because of the fins and swept-back shape, but also because the McMurtry at speed reminded me of footage of the 60s Adam West Batmobile, which was artificially "sped up" to look faster on TV than it actually was.
A real car enthusiast loves EVs becasue of how much faster and high potential for fun they are. You need to wake up out of your 2005 slumber and join us in 2022 when even the average under-6-figure EV sedan leaves multi-million dollar hypercars in the dust.
You don't actually seem to have any idea bout cars when you don't see the insane similarity between this and previous batmobiles. My dude, slap yourself.
@@evolicious This is a very long comment but I hope you read it.
The fastest cars I've ever been in are the Golf 7 R and the Leon Cupra 300, the Golf is especially terrifying because of the AWD, when I accelerated I couldn't believe it! It was a brutal, painful acceleration, all I was thinking was " How on earth can a car do this?!" it exceeded all my expectations. And the leon was impressive at high speed accelerations and all that in a luxurious quiet interior with tons of tech. I then drove a rally car in the 1.6 liter class with about 150hp ( half the hp of the previous two cars) and it was FWD with only a 5 speed manual gearbox. no TC, no ABS, no ESC, no airbags, no cupholders, no upholstery, no seats excpet for the driver's seat, no dashboard, no door cards, NOTHING, it's just you, the engine, the transmission and that 8000rpm redline, I really can't put into words how fun it was, it sounded furious, you could feel everything, you operate the car based on your feelings and reflexes, it was as if the car was just an extension of my body. Sure those fancy German cars would smoke that little rally car in a straight line, but it's not about what the car does it's about how it does it and how it makes you feel while you're doing it. To put it simply, it's the only thing in the world that made cry of joy, and changed my perception completely, all I care about now is the drive, and I pitty everyone who hasn't experienced a raw mechanical beast like I have. EVs to me are just huge tech devices on wheels, it can have a million horsepower but if the car is doing everything for you waht's the point?
This is what it is to be a car enthusiast, someone who can develop an emotional connection with the car, and that's something that you just can't do with an EV.
EVs are the future. As a ICE lover it's hard to accept hoe fast this industry is changing but truth is; IT IS.
Thanks to guys like McMurtry for making EVs exciting. I know every other supercar/hypercar manufacturer will do things that'd make EVs exciting to drive, but it's good to have a sneak peak of how things would take place
EVs will only be the future if it finds a way to get sustainable energy without relying on a external generator. Hydro-electrics are cleaner than battery packs and are much more sustainable in the long run.
At least we can agree on the direction we want to go for EVs.
Wow that is so cool looking and rather beautiful in its diminutive size. It's like a baby bat car. Cheers and have a great weekend guys.☘️
Dyson needs to buy this company. The car's basically the fastest vacuum 'cleaner' ever built.
Gotta love it!
sad that nobody knows that this isn't the first car to have such a feature,with the fans generating downforce,the first car to ever have fans in it's back was the Chaparal 2J
Looks like the mini Batmobile of my dreams 😍.
I love how tiny it is! It’s such an awesome little car it looked amazing at Goodwood!
The wheelbase on the McMurderey is terrifyingly short for that amount of power.
It looks ridiculously tiny. Liie a rebodied Ginetta.
Yeah and it's rwd, pretty small of a car, definitely gonna be light though, all around a scary to drive sounding car, but sounds like just sideways craziness in the right hands.
Cars with wheels at each corner look like they have shorter wheelbases than they really do
@DrFeast 3000 You all did hear the part about full time adjustable down force right?
@@hall6913 the downforce adds to the issue. Short wheelbase means the oversteer is snappy instead of progressive. The downforce is going to push the limits of grip so far that it’s going to feel like it’s on rails until you exceed the limits of grip and then you’re boot first in Armco before you have a chance to correct. That’s going to be a handful for even the most skilled drivers.
Arguably the coolest looking car I've ever seen in my 40 years on this planet.
Where you from if you haven’t seen cooler than this in your 40 years? Hungary?
@@1980venom "Cool" is a very subjective thing, so I'll explain my point. A short wheelbase, carbon fiber, center driven, single-seater, track-focused, 1000hp, rear-wheel drive, fanned downforce, electric vehicle that looks like batmobile had a baby with a LeMans bolide is pretty freaking cool in my book. To some people cool may be flashy, luxurious or just different. But a car that has so many neat points from different racing categories deserves a spotlight. Hope that clarified! Cheers!
I’m sorry for you !😭😉
So a rideable high downforce Roomba. I love it!
Would absolutely love to a racing series with these. I think it would be possible to see people going 4 wide into Eau Rouge/ Raidillon.
Adding "high downforce Roomba" to my list of favorite phrases.
Sat in the car. Absolutely amazing, even just to sit in.
🧢
@@toge_shuto8309 no cap. Did it at Blenheim palace.
@@toge_shuto8309 ye so did I it’s not deep it was on show
@@toge_shuto8309 met the guy too he let me sit in it
Bullshit🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
This car just broke the Good Wood Hill record in 2022 can't wait to see 20 of these lined up at the ring
This takes the extreme vacuum cleaning sport to another level
It’s great that they both have different reverb settings 😂😂😂. Awesome car well presented 👌
Just crushed the Goodwood record. Congrats!!!
That shape is sick. We need more single seaters and they are doing it right. I'd love to see a two or three seater in the future. Give those designers bricks of gold asap.
That’s incredible. My mind is blown. I’m 46 and through the years there are certain cars that push things forward. For me it was the Countach, F40, XJ220, McLaren, Veyron and then this. I’m so excited to see what it does around the Nurburgring.
An ev that has a decently cool sound, looks badass as well.
That is what EV is supposed to be, clean slate, out of the box thinking...could be incredible on a wet track....the rooster tail of spray....pitty the guy behind you!
Excellent presentation and car!
As impressive as it is and as much as I love this car, getting excited over that sound is like getting excited over hearing a vacuum cleaner starting up.
It may be an EV that sounds like a vacuum cleaner, but blimey it is mighty. That fan sound may not as exotic as petrol-powered engine, but certainly gives a powerful impression of what this car can do.
Sounds a lot like my xbox when its revving up
Great stuff Top Gear 👍 ⚙️
I had to rewind that because I thought I’d misheard it. O-186mph in under 9 seconds!? That’s mental.
I’m imagining a pigeon flying low over the outlet ducts and being boosted into space lol.
Its downforce is so super that speed gun won't be able to detect it! Can't wait for peter dinklage as the new batman to drive that beast! 🍻
These engineers should lead production car conceptualization and design. Transportation would be very different.
But people want bad, ugly and big things.
@@gustavoflorio5383 It's mostly because the public want to feel "safe" in their big, boring, ugly SUVs :(
🦇 : *"I'LL TAKE THE ENTIRE STOCK!"*
I love how the fan is coming back!
That looks insane I want one
Saw this pocket rocket do the hill climb in person at Goodwood on Thursday without knowing what it was at the time. I have never seen a land vehicle accelerate and go so fast or sound so incredible! So glad to get it on video although I don’t know if I can embed a link here without my comment being removed? Let’s try: ruclips.net/video/R8Gg2s_fSuY/видео.html
Thanks! Did you get close to it? Also, did it take special set up? Like prep of car or track?
I can't wait for an on-board camera lap with sound from this thing!
Holy crap it actually makes sound!! I like it
Thunderstorm? I thought Dyson had finally managed to make a car?
Who's here after the Goodwood record break video? 😆
Lots of amazing ideas, very cool video!
It's the fastest Vacuum Cleaner known to man.
Looks amazing, I bet this hairdryer of a car will set new trends for record setting designs. It's not only lightweight, but it's simply... just... small. A lot of power in a tiny package. Amazing. I also love the focus on a single driver. It's one of the reasons I love the BAC Mono - it's small and wraps around you; man melding with machine. This car is the same... and it also doubles as a leaf blower.
I can't believe how small a 1,000hp electric car can be !!
Literally sounds like a old vacuum
8:23 My cat got scared, thought I turned on the vacuum cleaner
That's the coolest hoover I've ever seen.
My own napkin cals say that an EV with proper aero should be able to do F2/Indycar/LMP1 speeds until the battery run out.
Since electtric bikes, scooters and moped can swap batteries in a matter of seconds, a matter of time before motorsports will introduce it as the best thing since sliced bread.
Who else is here after seeing this thing set a new record at goodwood?
Saw it at the secret Supercar meeting doing lap after lap of amazingly fast laps - brilliant work
"Cunning stunt!"
"Bonus for artistic impression"
"Extra style bonus!"
"Nice shot, sir"
I'm just happy to here that someone is seeing that rear wheels are for power and the front is for steering. Don't get me wrong AWD has it's place for daily driving and cold weather areas, but, RWD is where the real fun is to be had.
Too scared to push my car around corners for my first ever rwd car Lexus GS 450h f sport to scared I’ll lose it plus previous owner put crappy budget tires on it which are like new.
awd is great for tracks. look at the 919
@@watermelon1221 don't get me wrong, I know the performance is there, but, the feeling is sometimes a bit numb.
Oh this man's gotta love FWD track builds, I'm sure of it.
There are ~40 years of rally cars that want to have a word with you out back.
I want one if just for the looks and how tiny it is. Top Gear production crew needs to use Izotope RX to ambient match the audio of two speakers. Easily done in post production, and almost automatic.
Top gear is notorious for not mixing stereo signals well.
Audio engineer alert!
The shape and size of the car reminds me of the Praga R1, its such a unique take on performance EVs, I would love to see this in a racing series of some sorts in the near future, it looks rather awesome tbh.
This thing did amazing at Goodwood this year!
POV: you here cause you saw the goodwood hill climb
It would be great to see the car on load cells and then switch the fans on to see the difference in weight/downforce.
I just love it ❤️
I wanna see a record lap at SPA Francorchamps...
Imagine yourself driving a one seater hypersonic vacuum cleaner, you already did? OK! That was an outsider impression. With that said total respect for the effort put & done in this machine, once I see it on the track.
Just came here after it smashed the good wood record. I think they didn't quite know what they were dealing with in this interview.
Same 😎
His ending statements sounded like it was written over a decade ago. Blocking Nissan Leaf drivers? We've had fast electrics for a while. Especially in the last couple of years with the Tesla and its performance variants, the Porsche Taycan, and VW's ID.R winning the overall Pike's Peak competition. Everyone is already excited. We want to see these things out there, racing, or whatever.
Ollie was referring to charging stations though not the Leaf’s performance.
Apart from the engineering brilliance and the fact that I'm still drooling with the concept.
Big thumbs up for the display at the hillclimb! The downforce fans being active from a standstill should provide more grip at launch and improve the feeling of sudden acceleration, but also for practicality I'm sure it can also be a very eccentric way of blowing leaves off from any road or pathway, so a big hat tip for that!
Cheers!
This video should have 8.54 million views. This car is absolutely insane
I think that Gordon Murray invented the whole Down Force by Fan since 1978 with the Brabham BT46 and reintroduced it in 2020 with the GMA T50, just saying 🇬🇧
Chaparral 1967
GC giving me anxiety....
Great review TG, really enjoyed!!
a very interesting concept. As a motorsport enthusiast, its quite refreshing to see someone maximise the possibilities of electric technology for motorsport in this way.
The car also looks bloody stonking.
Cant wait for these to be out on track.
Ah, yes. Fan cars are always much appreciated, as a Gran Turismo player :)
The vacuum Chaparral…
@@primefernandoalonso Jim Hall definitely redefined history and motorsport with the 2J, it all goes back to him and what he accomplished.
Love it… hope it’s street legal.
Yeah right, add 1000 kilo of crumple zones then maybe
I don’t think driving a car with a leaf blower at the back is going to be street legal
Why, you're buying one?
@@Barefoot_Joe doesn't matter
If not there is probably a tuner that will put lights and indicators on it. 😂
This thing has just proved its self! Who would've thought it would be anywhere near as fast as a VW IDR let alone smashing it's time up goodwood
That car wrap kicks ass! It looks bat mobile crazy! I like it!
Nothing space age Gordon Murray did the same type of car (the fan thing)and was ban from goodwood and f1 in 1978
It was Gordon Murray first identified this technology and called it “the unfair advantage” what a guy, true national treasure his mind is.
The designers of the Chaparral 2J deserve some credit here.
The Goodwood run brought me here.. Not like anyone actually watches Top Gear nowdays 🤣
Love the size and style badass!
This car really “sucks “ but in a good way 😆
No top speed or drive footage cmon bruh throw the whole video away baby batmobile driving headjazz
Looks Incredible !!
This is a marvelous concept but it doesn't sound like a thunderstorm it sounds like a vacuum cleaner.
Needs to be 15% larger
I absolutely love it! …(Why do I get the impression that Electric car racing is going to be even faster than ICE racing cars?)….as Clarkson once said: BRING IT ON ! 😊😊😊😊
That would be the natural progression. If all cars in the near future will be electric it would make sense for F1 cars to also be electric, and with other technology progressing, the chassis and aero will benefit making the newer cars faster. The only thing I still see ICE doing for F1 is very high power output for a whole race distance, seeing how EVs are improving though I think we could see electric F1 cars sooner than most would think.
@@lumntoob999 Possible but for now Formula E has exclusive rights to run an electric Open wheel series
@@thisnameistoolong9169 they have exclusivity until 2039 but F1 can get (purchase) permission to go electric before that. I honestly believe that's their smallest hurdle because you can just throw money at it. Being able to get the performance and range they would want is still an issue and I'm sure F1 is also taking into consideration what they feel fans and the majority of the manufacturers want.
@@lumntoob999 that's also possible, I guess we'll just have to wait and see. V10s and V12s are never coming back so we might as well dive straight into the electric stuff.
@@thisnameistoolong9169 I agree, I obviously loved the sound of the V10 and V12 engines but I wouldn't have wanted to go back to them once I saw the performance and potential of the turbo hybrid cars, although a V10 hybrid would of been cool as well. I'm excited about the performance of electric drivetrains but I am definitely a bit worried about how long it will take to have the range/capacity to supply F1 cars with the crazy amount of power output they need. You watch F1 I'm guessing so you know how much power the chassis and tires can handle and how much of the lap they take at full throttle, it does seem like a daunting task to replicate that for a race distance. Like you said we will have to give it time to see what will actually happen.
Love it. An actually exciting EV.
FINALLY!
What a beautiful creation...
I got third of the way through this visual novel and decided to start skipping ahead… and yep… the car never moves. That really is… some impressive downs force.
dw there's footage of it destroying everyone even Porsche in time attack. XD
might just be my American eyes but I think the car is amazing but I wish it was a little bigger (if he ever does plan on making it a road car). The small size is great for pulling it in a trailer driving on track then putting it back in its transport. But for anything else it seem impractical. I know how that sounds calling a 1000bhp bat mobile ev track demon "impractical"
I think they are building it to be used in a new racing series, not for street.
Sounds like a really powerful hoover
8:30 should be called the vacuum cleaner lmao