Cool!! The old car that is faster than a Lamborghini Aventador
Shock and surprised yes here it presenting a 42 year old car that called the Flux Capacitor and it smokes everything from a Nissan GT-R to an Audi R8 to a McLaren 650S. Before we get to the interesting bit, here’s a quick history about the car have a look. This particular car in question belongs to Jonny Smith, a well-known motoring journalist and TV presenter. The car itself wasn’t in good shape to begin with, since it had been heavily damaged by flood water.
The Flux Capacitor is based on the old Enfield 8000, that started off in life as a humble two-seater electric car. It packed a rather dreary 8PS (6kW) electric motor, paired with lead-acid batteries. This made the little hatch as fast as your average house mouse, with a rated top speed of 77kmph. Only 120 of these cars were ever built, more than half of which served the local electricity board for research.
Power now stands at 800PS, a full 100 times more than the original figures. Want a bigger number to wrap your head around? Take the 1627Nm of torque that the motors make. Considering the car is electric, all of that torque is available all the time. We’re grinning just thinking about it! The only small numbers in the mix are the drag times. Jonny’s Flux Capacitor is the fastest (street-legal) electric drag car in the world. It set a time of 9.86 seconds, clocking a top speed of 195kmph in the process. Lest we forget, 0-100 mph (161kmph) comes up in a shade under six seconds.
