There are fast cars. Then there are electric hypercars. And then… there's the Aspark Owl, a machine so absurdly fast it makes a Bugatti Chiron look like a mobility scooter with a hangover.
There are fast cars. Then there are electric hypercars. And then… there's the Aspark Owl, a machine so absurdly fast it makes a Bugatti Chiron look like a mobility scooter with a hangover. Conceived not in Stuttgart or Maranello, but in Osaka, by a company that once made automotive software, the Owl is the result of a singularly Japanese obsession: "What if we made a car faster than physics itself?"
Enter Masanori Yoshida, the CEO and mad genius who decided in 2014 that Japan needed a halo car, one to silence the sniggering petrolheads of the West. Teaming up with the Italian artisans at Manifattura Automobili Torino, they produced a carbon-fibre spaceship that looks like it should hover rather than roll. It packs four electric motors good for 1,985 horsepower, launches to 100 km/h in 1.9 seconds, and has a top speed of 413 km/h. That’s not a car, that’s what happens when you weaponize electrons.
It's ludicrous. It’s over-engineered. It’s entirely unnecessary. And I want one. Just to park it next to a Ferrari and watch the red one cry.
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Mark Twain
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American writer
