The Gordon Murray Automotive T33 coupé has made its public debut at the 79th Goodwood Members' Meeting, following its reveal earlier this year.
The £1.37m T33 is GMA's second supercar, a “more practical” stablemate to the three-seat, V12-powered T50 fan-car flagship that it revealed in August 2020.
All 100 examples of the T33 sold within a week of the model's reveal. First customer deliveries will get under way in 2024.
The T33, which is built on an all-new carbon-aluminium monocoque chassis, is slightly longer than the T50 and its cabin is designed for two occupants. The car uses a specially adapted version of GMA’s Cosworth-designed 3.9-litre V12 engine with even more low-speed torque but a slightly lower rev limit of 11,100rpm, compared with 12,000rpm in the T50.
Further preserving the T50’s status as GMA’s flagship, the T33 uses newly developed passive underbody aerodynamic principles to deliver aero downforce as speeds rise, rather than the T50’s innovative fan system, which works at any speed.
The T33 weighs about 100kg more than the T50 at the kerb, and its price shaves £1m off that of its senior sibling.
“If you can have only one supercar,” said GMA founder and boss Gordon Murray, “the T33 is designed to be the one you should have.”
In other ways, the two GMA models are closely related. Both are about the same length as the Porsche 718 Boxster but more than 200kg lighter. Their body proportions are considerably different (the T50’s screen is around 10in further forward to accommodate its centrally seated driver), but they share carefully created family look. Murray and his design assistant Kevin Richards are responsible for the styling of both, created in-house with a small team of CAD modellers.
Murray has used the T33 to reflect his love of 1960s exotics (notably the Alfa Romeo 33 Stradale, Ferrari Dino 206 SP and Lamborghini Miura) and to create a more graceful, less cluttered shape than contemporary supercars.
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Precisely. GMA is starting to resemble a Ponzi scheme. Yet still the journalists and youtubers keep dancing to his tune and lapping up the BS.
And Autocar is test it when?, that's going to be interesting, will Autocar get to be first....?
Like Gordon said, it's not all about how fast etc, we all like different things about how a Car looks, performs, you'll be lucky to see one, how many were sold to UK buyers?, the Car adheres to Gordon's ethos, light, strongly built, well built, innovative,but, by what you like, what's wrong with that?