World’s First Car to Drive Upside Down from Standstill

The McMurtry Spéirling has become the first car to drive upside down. If that wasn’t impressive enough, it did it from stationary! 

It was possible for the all-electric hypercar to do this because of its Downforce-on-Demand™ fan system. This essentially vacuums the car to any surface, even a rotating platform turned completely upside down. It works so well in fact that the driver during the upside down driving attempt, McMurtry Automotive co-founder Thomas Yates, even drove the car forward while completely upside down and unsupported. 

Being the first car to drive upside down isn’t the first record that the Spéirling holds either. It also holds the fastest times at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, Laguna Seca’s Corkscrew, and, most recently, it set the fastest lap time at the Top Gear Test Track, beating the long standing record set by a V10 F1 car by over 3 seconds.

The only way to describe the Spéirling is fast, extremely fast. It accelerates from 0 – 60mph in 1.5 seconds and generates 2,000kg of instant downforce meaning the driver faces more than 3 g’s during cornering. 

Only 100 of the Spéirling production models will be built, with deliveries set for 2026. They’ll have a 100kWh battery and enough endurance for 20-minute blasts at GT3 speeds.