It’s amazing to see how much trouble Gordon Murray has taken making his new T50 into a daily driver. He has refined the carbonfibre tub to make sliding into the central seat much easier.
There’s an easier new way of loading the luggage compartments, too. And the body’s frontal features are designed so that a ‘nose lift’ mechanism, familiar in McLarens and Porsches, isn’t needed. The aim, he says, is that if you’re rich enough and want just one supercar, the T50 will be the logical choice.
The truth is different. The demand for cars as exclusive and pricey as the new Murray (or should that be GMA?) T50 is driven by an odd combination of trust and taste for investment. During our interview, the designer remarked that half of the 100 T50s his company will build were reserved when prospective buyers could see nothing more than a single ballpoint-pen sketch of the finished car. That’s trust.
Another tranche were former McLaren F1 owners who hadn’t owned their cars long enough, thus missing the rare joy of converting a £650,000 investment into £5 million or more.
Not that I’m saying Murray’s painstakingly practical features are wasted; they give T50 its character. It’s just that we won’t see many sitting in traffic on our way to work.
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I'm afraid this car is
I'm afraid this car is evidence of an engineer not understanding his limits as a designer (stylist).
That back end is best described as 'unfortunate'
Yes, you shouldn't over-style a car but equally you shouldn't make the mistake of thinking that a Design(styling) is easy.
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Before any other opinions are made, there is a nice interview on YouTube with Topgear mag, they spend about forty odd minutes discussing all that's gone into producing this car, and Gordon Murray came over well, he explained what his goals were with the car, and who his customer base were which he did say most of the pre sold would be driven regularly, Murray has no pretensions, he a car nut through and through, it doesn't matter what it costs, it's not going to be spectacularly fast either,and yes 98% of us can't have one, so, let's wait to see what it can actually do when it gets into the sweaty little mitts of. Ar mag Journo!
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