Longbow Electric Speedster: Now with 900 HP and AWD! Maybe, Sort of
Our man in the U.K., Angus MacKenzie, got an advanced look at the electric Longbow Speedster and Roadster last November and came away mightily impressed. Thanks to its sub-ton (1,973-lb) weight, single 270-hp motor spinning the rear wheels, and a 55-kWh battery, the Longbow was claimed to hit 60 mph in just 3.5 seconds with 275 miles of range. Seemed sensible to us. Well, just a couple months later, co-founder Mark Tapscott was in Las Vegas at CES showing the same car off in an extreme-performan...





