Gordon Murray’s T50 is one of those special supercars that will need owners who take the trouble to understand it.
It’s quite different from most rivals in performance and price: you’ll search in vain for a touchscreen and the same goes for 'driver aids'. This is an unashamedly analogue car and, according to its creator, all the better for that. Which is why he’s keen to get to know his owners as individuals: they’ll be buying an experience quite different from that offered by the bigger, more complex breed of modern hypercars.
The dividend cited by Murray, who masterminded the McLaren F1, is efficiency in all its forms: great packaging efficiency, superior aerodynamics and lightness. When you build a car that undercuts the featherweight McLaren F1 by 120kg, you get towering performance for the available power, plus great agility and great braking – all of it on sensibly sized tyres. And all of it in a package that offers great visibility and that fits easily on the road.
What you don’t get is power everything. Or next-generation infotainment. Or godawful synthesised engine noises piped through a hi-fi so powerful it could shout your house down. Neither do you get exaggerated air-collecting ducts and scoops all over the body. The T50 just doesn’t need them.
Instead, you get purity in a traditional shape. You get logic and functionality. You get efficiency at the top of the scale. The T50, for all its stupendous performance, might strike some people as just too sensible. Even so, Murray is rightly confident that many more than the 125 well-heeled owners he seeks will know authenticity when they see it.
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any chance of a T25 now?
I have to say....
I like the shape, it's not all winglets, scoops and wings, and if it's as good as the press release says it is, then I hope it give them all, the other Hypercars a run for there money!
Presumably "special" in this
Presumably "special" in this context is nothing more than a synonym for "rich".
At this price, and with limited supply, it's a reasonable bet that every single one will go into a private collection, never to see the road. Frankly it seems a waste of Murray's time to put this much thought into the design given that they'll just sit in climate-controlled garages, occasionally being traded like any other expensive bauble.
Bless you Steve. Don't ever
Bless you Steve. Don't ever change.
Nice lunch Gordon bought you
Nice lunch Gordon bought you was it Steve?..
I understand this is being
Also, I would have thought that it would have been better for value if it was built by an established manafacturer, such as McLaren. This would make sense, as it is the 'spiritual successor to the F1' but Gordon Murray seems to want a bigger legacy, by calling it the Gordon Murray Automotive T50.