McMurtry Speirling revealed: £1.2m fan car is the ultimate track toy
The company is working on plans for three new models, “and it’s quite possible that some of those have numberplates on”, he revealed, without giving any firm details of what form they would take.
He did hint at potentially offering the Spéirling with a second seat in the future but said that the future models under consideration “are in a completely different direction altogether”.
Q&A with Thomas Yates, MD, McMurtry Automotive
Can you imagine a motorsport series?
“I think of the pre-war era, where there was this spirit of endeavour, where you had people that were so enthusiastic about their cars and what they could build and what they could run, that people would just come together and they would race, and motorsport grew organically out of this burning desire to go quickly. I would love it if we had a customer base that turned to us and said ‘we want to go racing’. To me that’s that’s the best ever justification for why you would go racing with these cars. But what we’re not interested in at this point is curating an artificial environment to take these things racing.”
Do you look to firms like Ariel and BAC for inspiration?
“One hundred per cent. We have a lovely meeting where it’s me, [Ariel’s] Simon Saunders, the [BAC] Briggs brothers, Morgan and Caterham, and we all get together and laugh about how insane it is to try and run a car company in the UK. But it’s so uplifting, because even though we’re offering different levels of cars, there’s so much endeavour between the group, and it’s wonderful. So I’m hugely inspired by those guys; they’ve done an incredible job, and the proof in the pudding is that I would so gladly have a garage filled with one each of their cars.”
You could theoretically break every lap record under the sun. Will you?
“There’s definitely some cool stuff in the pipeline that we want to do, and I’m sure we’ll announce it formally soon. The extra huge effort that’s been put through the car to increase the range opens up some interesting and new possibilities that maybe would have been more difficult with the original prototype, so that’s exciting. Mostly what we want to achieve, though, is to support our wonderful owners to let them go and break records and go and live their aspirations. Our dream is that headlines will be made by our customers.”
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