Exclusive: more pics of the production-ready McMurtry Spéirling PURE

This just in: a company that builds cars is taking a car to a place where cars are wheeled out in front of the public gaze. The specifics? McMurtry Automotive. The mad, electric, rocketship Spéirling PURE. And California.

Specifically, Monterey’s now well-publicised Car Week, where the record-crushing Spéirling will make its global debut at The Quail, and then again at the excellent Monterey Motorsports Reunion.

So, with that in mind, the good folk over at McMurtry went on a little photoshoot, and here are the results: as good a time as any to bask in one of the wildest, maddest and most brilliant little things to emerge from these isles in a long, long while.

The production version of the Spéirling is of course, a fair bit different from the car that – perhaps almost literally – catapulted it into global discourse. In short: the battery’s bigger (100kWh), the car’s a little bigger, there's more brake-regen, new electric motors, more cooling, headlights, a hinged second door, new fan blades and motors, a taller ride height… basically anything that makes it permissible on public roads.

Though, while the car might have changed, human brains have not. Will any normal, sentient human be able to handle the accelerative and G force on offer here? Indeed, it’s a question posed not just by us, but by the TopGear.com community.

For its part, McMurtry assures us it is actually usable, because – according to MD and co-founder Thomas Yates – “feedback from our earliest deposit holders has shaped the car just as much as our own engineering ambition did”. This, explains Yates, “helped turn a record-breaking prototype into something extraordinary and genuinely usable”. So, you don’t have to be an Ollie Marriage or a Max Chilton to extract every last drop of performance.

You do have to be absolutely loaded, mind, because it costs £995k without taxes or options. Better get yourself over to The Quail, then, so you can see it for free.