Aspark Owl electric hypercar breaks the sub-2 second 0-60 barrier

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Tesla CEO Elon Musk late last year claimed the company’s second generation Roadster would be able to accelerate from zero to 60 mph in just 1.9 seconds (the Model S P100D sedan was able to do so in 2.28 seconds last February).

Many believed the Roadster was destined to be the first production vehicle to break the sub-2 second 0-60 barrier… and it still could be, but Tesla had better hurry up.

The Aspark Owl, a street-legal hypercar out of Japan, recently managed to lay down a sub-2 second 0-60 time and has the video footage to prove it.

As Jalopnik highlights, the Owl was able to accelerate to 60 mph in just 1.921 seconds in a recent test run. Granted, it did so on Hoosier racing tires (that aren’t legal on ordinary streets) and a burnout was conducted beforehand to heat the tires up and shed them of debris which is a standard practice. Nevertheless, a 1.921 second 0-60 is a 1.921 second 0-60 and that’s damn quick.

A few tenths of a second quicker to 60 mph may not sound like much but at this level, any improvement is incredibly difficult to achieve.

Aspark says it will continue to tweak its vehicle until the feat can be accomplished on street-legal rubber. You can hear the slicks struggling for grip in the test run; getting comparable grip on street-legal tires will be a challenge.

The company is planning a small production run of 50 units soon with each priced around $4.4 million.

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Meh! This guy built a 1s 0-100km car 7 years ago. That's 1s flat!


Nice race track they picked up for the test, b.t.w., between a petrol station and a ditch.
 
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Wow, launch me at a hillside at that rate and I'd **** my pants guaranteed.
Progress is also being made on electric motorcycles. While I will miss the growl of the engine, I won't miss having the engine at like 10,000 rpm to get any torque, while apparently electric vehicles have 100% torque at all times making for incredible launches off the line and acceleration.
 
An Electric car with enough traction could probably go from 0 - 100 in 4 seconds.

But from the looks of this, it ain't street legal.
 
Who needs this kind of thing on the street?

It would be interesting to know how much power is consumed during a run like this.
 
An Electric car with enough traction could probably go from 0 - 100 in 4 seconds.

But from the looks of this, it ain't street legal.

Didn't take the time to read the article?

"The Aspark Owl, a street-legal hypercar out of Japan, recently managed to lay down a sub-2 second 0-60 time and has the video footage to prove it."
 
Meh! This guy built a 1s 0-100km car 7 years ago. That's 1s flat!


Nice race track they picked up for the test, b.t.w., between a petrol station and a ditch.
But the article is about PRODUCTION, street legal cars
 
An Electric car with enough traction could probably go from 0 - 100 in 4 seconds.

But from the looks of this, it ain't street legal.

Didn't take the time to read the article?

"The Aspark Owl, a street-legal hypercar out of Japan, recently managed to lay down a sub-2 second 0-60 time and has the video footage to prove it."

He said 0 to 100 in 4s. The last 40 mph is tougher than the first 60.
 
But the article is about PRODUCTION, street legal cars

They are both road-legal, and both are once-off. That contraption will never see the production, it will only make it as far as the next ditch. Their original race track is the testament to that end.
 
If hyper - loops were a thing...would there be more space on our current road systems to test the speeds of these hyper cars?
 
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