Cracking 150 mph isn’t a big deal these days, but back in 1926 it was enough to make a Sunbeam Tiger called Ladybird the quickest car on the planet. A British design student has paid tribute to that remarkable car by reimagining it as an all-electric roadster.
The concept car envisioned by Ryan Skelly would commemorate the 100th anniversary of the car Henry Seagrave drove to a record-setting 152.33 mph on March 21, 1926. It’s purely a styling exercise, but we like what he’s done with it.
“Originally I was going to build the vehicle with a flex-fuel V-12 engine harking back to the original’s petrol V12,” Skelly said. “But after rethinking the idea, I chose electric, not due to the current climate surrounding petrol vehicles, but more down to the fact that this vehicle is a tribute from a modern perspective that needed raw power.”
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