A real close look at the fake cars of 2022:
The world of hypercars has always celebrated obscure companies making unbelievable claims, but the democratization of power heralded by EVs has exponentially increased the number of automakers seeking to enter the realm of high-performance land missiles. The, the first proposed vehicle from Austria-based startup Deus Automobiles.
Not slated to arrive until 2025, the Vayanne allegedly makes 2200 horsepower and 1475 pound-feet of torque, which Deus claims will shoot the car to 62 mph in under 1.99 seconds before maxing out at 248 mph. But the company mysteriously omitted any details on the powertrain, and the static model we sat in on the show floor felt cheap and unfinished.
Deus will have help from established players—Italdesign penned the Vayanne's slinky lines, while Williams Advanced Engineering has been recruited to hone the technical bits—but we're still skeptical that we'll ever see the Vayanne move under its own power.Nearly six years had passed since we had heard about Faraday Future, a California-based startup that revealed its electric FF 91 crossover at the 2017 CES tech show that was formerly known as the Consumer Electronics Show.