HOT WINGS

Move over, road-legal minnows, it’s time for the serious machinery to pound the circuit...

WORDS CHRIS HARRIS

Theidea of unlimited motorsport has been an avenue of fascination denied us since the death of the Can-Am series in the mid-Seventies. But as a way of marketing a new technology, especially one perceived to lack both speed and excitement, Volkswagen created the ID.R. It is the single most insane electric car ever made, Rimac included, because it can rearrange the driver’s vital organs like nothing short of a Formula One car. Actually, in a straight line, or at least from rest to 200kph, the leccy VW might have the legs on a current F1 car – it accelerates from standstill to 200kph in under five seconds. In the time your brain has acknowledged the violence of this AWD-assisted mayhem and sent a strongly worded message to your voice box…

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Top Gear South Africa (Digital) - 1 Issue, November 2019

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