Whoo!! This Dumpy Yellow City Car is Faster Than A Lamborghini Aventador!

What if I told you that a more than 40-year old British tiny city car just broke the world record and became the world’s quickest street-legal electric car. You are not going to believe this, but it's not finished yet, more interestingly, this tiny historical four-wheel machine is faster than a Lamborghini Aventador, McLaren 650S, Porsche 911 Turbo S and even the Nissan GT-R !! I know, this might sounds a bit crazy, but all that you have read is undoubtedly true.

A British automotive journalist and serial car modifier, Jonny Smith converted an old Enfield 8000 electric car into something, which is a lot wilder however doesn't look cool, but while driving, its speed do the talking, named it ‘Flux Capacitor’.

The Enfield 8000 was an electric car which was produced in mid-1970 by Enfield Automotive in very small numbers. Yeah! This is something you are not, the United Kingdom had the electric-powered cars more than 40 years ago.

Back to this strange-looking car, the Flux Capacitor had made several runs before, but the last one created a buzz across the world. On July 16, Jonny’s Flux Capacitor grabbed the title of world’s fastest street legal electric vehicle by completing the whole quarter-mile sprint at Santa Pod in just 9.87 seconds at a thundering speed of 121.73 mph.

Under the skin, it carries 188 lithium-ion battery cells that produce 2,000 amps at 400 volts, which is further delivered into two 9-inch electric motors at the rear axle. Originally tuned to produce just 8 hp, the Flux Capacitor is now capable of producing 800 hp of power and more than 1626 Nm of torque. This little car quietly rockets from standstill to 181.8 kmph in just 6-seconds. And it did all without any aerodynamic enhancements.

These power figures really smashed my head, and I bet yours as well. Whatever, that all are the actual figures.

One more question you must have in your mind that why it is called the Flux Capacitor? Well, what Jonny says about it is, In the ’70s every custom and race car had a name. As this is a vehicle from the past destined to travel at unholy speeds, I couldn’t stop thinking about Back To The Future and the fictitious electronic widget that powers the DeLorean. It was either that or Batt Outta Hell."

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