Ariel P40 Electric hipercar

[John_S4x4]

http://www.roadandtrack.com/new-cars/future-cars/a...

https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/world-...

Ariel is to unveil a 1200bhp, four-wheel-drive, electric two-seater with a revolutionary turbine range extender powertrain. The electric power equates to 1180bhp, with huge torque of 1328lb ft,
0-60mph in just 2.4sec
0-100mph in just 3.8sec
0-150mph in just 7.8sec

[MrLizard]

http://www.arielmotor.co.uk/ariel/news/

Hipercar!! looks utterly mental

[simonrockman]

Has there been any more news on this?

[Bahnstormer]

https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/features/exclus...

[robemcdonald]

I think it needs a little work.

[simonrockman]

I love the gas turbine, but two years out? The tesla Roadster might make it by then.

[Fastlane]

Just seen that a pre-production Ariel Hipercar has been tested by Auotcar, Top Gear & Evo - a 1183bhp, 1550kgs, 0-60 in 2 secs, 0-100 in 4.4, c.£1m EV, 150 mile range - or much further with with optional gas turbine range extender.

I'm sure PH wiill be reviewing it soon.

[Pflanzgarten]

Jesus Christ that's one ugly mother!

[SteveStrange]

Yeah it's no looker. Impressive stats, very very impressive, but I think you'd be explaining to everyone that it's not a Smart Roadster with loads of plastic tat glued on.

[pidsy]

Looks like a Chinese knock off of a transformer toy.

[Pflanzgarten]

How are we to pronounce it, the hippercar?

[brillomaster]

They can't be serious, thats really how its going to look? Bit late for april fools isnt it?

[samoht]

For those drivers who were devastated that the FK8 Honda Civic Type R was taken off sale too soon, your next car is here:



I'm super-impressed that someone is actually doing the gas turbine range extender approach, pity it looks like a knock-off batmobile.

[Equus]

Now we know why previous Ariels didn't bother with any bodywork.

[bimsb6]

I wondered where leepu had gone to.

[SteveStrange]

bimsb6 said:

I wondered where leepu had gone to.

Actual lol

[Hunky Dory]

For a company that has always put so much emphasis and pride in having elegant engineering “on show”, this seems a disappointingly radical departure from that approach, IMO.

It looks like a load of incoherent and disjointed stuff thrown together with zero consideration for the overall finished look.

I love Ariel, but really don’t like this.

[livinginasia]

Holy moly Batman, someone has copied our car in the West Country.

An atom is top of my lottery list. This is not. What happened ??

[DonkeyApple]

Utterly baffling. As if the entire company just got randomly lucky with the first car and this reveals the reality?

[valiant]

That looks like someone tried to describe the Batmobile to a blind man and then asked him to draw it.

It’s certainly, erm, distinctive.