Gordon Murray T50 Live Launch

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Ultima based engine mule running decent revs- the way this car looks is now irrelevant to me- that noise is enough justification to want one
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A year+ more and they're only testing the engine in a kit car? When's this car due - Will it make it before the 2030 ban?
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It’s a video made just because they’ve let Dario Franchitti loose in it, full prototypes start next month apparently
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I’ll happily have mine in a Radical body for a £2 million discount. I think it looks better too.
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Mito Man wrote: Fri Oct 08, 2021 7:45 pm I’ll happily have mine in a Radical body for a £2 million discount. I think it looks better too.
How do you know that from looking at one in an Ultima body?
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jamcg wrote: Fri Oct 08, 2021 7:39 pm It’s a video made just because they’ve let Dario Franchitti loose in it, full prototypes start next month apparently
Dario's reaction to the engine is quite telling, he seems terribly eager about it, and not in a 'I'm being paid to say this' way, but a just flat out enthusiasm.

Bodes well I suppose. None of us are likely to sit in one, let alone drive one, but it's nice (and not at all surprising) to see that Gordon Murray doesn't rest on his laurels.
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mik wrote: Fri Oct 08, 2021 8:06 pm
Mito Man wrote: Fri Oct 08, 2021 7:45 pm I’ll happily have mine in a Radical body for a £2 million discount. I think it looks better too.
How do you know that from looking at one in an Ultima body?
My bad, was just reading about them before typing this and said the wrong thing.
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Doesn’t look anywhere near low enough to be making huge amounts of under floor downforce. Wonder if anyone will ever do testing with and without the fan?
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integrale_evo wrote: Sat Oct 16, 2021 8:46 pm Doesn’t look anywhere near low enough to be making huge amounts of under floor downforce. Wonder if anyone will ever do testing with and without the fan?
Is ride height relevant to downforce generating capabilities with modern aero though? Just thinking of F1 where higher rake = more space for a greater volume of air to pass through diffuser.
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T33 announcement imminent apparently…. :?

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So that's a T25, T27, T33, T50 & TVR that he's been working on and not finishing...
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Guessing this isn't as imminent as was suggested. Late like every other GM project.
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I'm seeing details that remind me of at least five other cars in the new T33 but it works and looks fantastic 8-)
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Rich B wrote: Thu Jan 06, 2022 2:53 pm So that's a T25, T27, T33, T50 & TVR that he's been working on and not finishing...
Is he just trying to collect a set of torx bits ?
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I prefer the looks to the T50.

It’s £quitealot though.


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He says he wants it to be a car people feel comfortable driving. At that price? He sold his own F1 for the very reason that it was too expensive to drive.
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I'm trying to decide if I like it....

It's got (big) hints of lots of other things:

It's got lots of Lotus, the rear and rear 3/4 looks very GT40, the rear from above and behind looks very Lancia Stratos

And the rear luggage clamshell looks awful!

But the interior looks ace!

(By comparison, I was looking at some photos of the new Noble and its interior looks SO bad - low volume cars prove how hard interior design is to get right IMO, far harder than external styling)

The idea of the snorkel and airbox being attached to the engine and not part of car is interesting

And the body-coloured roll over hoop makes it look like a Targa (which it isn't) - that would have to be in black/glass/carbon IMO

And as said, just ridiculously expensive still...
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Again, it's just dull. Boring shapes that could easily be created in cheap fibre glass. The back lights are nice though.
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