For more than two years since its appearance, and even before with its C_Two concept version, the Rimac Nevera has been presented as the fastest electric car in the world. Not only for its maximum speed mark of 412 km/h, something until recently only within the reach of models from Bugatti, Koenigsegg or Hennessey, but also for many other acceleration or braking records that it has achieved over time, as well as also in a record lap of the Nürburgring.
But That reign, in part, ends today, because a new electric hypercar has arrived that has managed to reach an even higher top speed. This is the Aspark SP600, which a few days ago managed to reach about 438.7 km/h, which not only makes it faster than a Bugatti Veyron Super Sport.but they even bring it closer to a Bugatti Chiron among other members of the Olympus of hypercars.
Almost at the same height as a Bugatti Chiron
A car that on June 8 managed to reach, with driver Marc Basseng at the controls, those 438.7 km/h on the Papenburg test track, the same one where the Nevera achieved the previous speed record and others. 23 more records the following year, thanks to its two straights of almost 4 km.
Like the probably better known Aspark Owl, This Aspark SP600 is the work of the Italian company Manifattura Automobili Torino, the same company responsible for models such as the Apollo Intensa Emozione or the SCG003C and SCG003S from Scuderia Cameron Glickenhaus. This new model, although aesthetically based on the Owl, according to the company It is a newly developed car. This means that despite its prowess there is a certain trick in the record of the Aspark SP600, because it is a prototype, which although it aims to be a future production car, has elements not typical of one, such as special Bridgestone tires Custom-made Potenza race or the absence of side mirrors.
With everything, It is enough to easily enter among the fastest cars in the world, surpassing with its almost 440 km/h cars as serious as a Bugatti Veyron Super Sport and bordering on a standard Bugatti Chiron with its 440 km/h. A little further away is the SSC Tuatara, which holds the official maximum speed record with 454 km/h, and much further and unofficially, a Bugatti Chiron Super Sport 300+ which also with a somewhat modified version of the standard one reached about 490 km/h. Be that as it may, it is clear that the differences in speed between electric and combustion hypercars are becoming smaller.
Specialized in the world of motors, competition and technology, Antonio Ramos Ochoa is an editor at Car and Driver. It is said that before getting out of the car he was already saying the name of the cars that he was seeing on the street. A few years later he is still talking about one of his passions here. A fan of Motorsport, cinema, video games and history, he even lets off steam from time to time behind the wheel of a kart or a simulator.
