Gordon Murray Announces new City Car

 Gordon Murray Announces new City Car
Gordon Murray T.25 City Car

Working on models such as the Mclaren F1 and Caparo T1 would leave most all hot and flustered, there are times you need to take a break and focus on the simpler things in life. Ok, so this would be a bit far fetched, there are few of us who would ever want to steer away from the supercar sector, but in the case of Gordon Murray, it appears to be exactly the case. One year after setting up Gordon Murray Design, he has announced the first details of the new T.25 city car which is being designed with focus drawn towards low emissions and low weight.

The new city car's total dry weigh will be just under 1000kg, and the length of the vehicle will be similar to the average width of a B or C segment model, this potentially allows up to three vehicles to park in a single parking bay. Murray has stopped short of providing the precise mechanical details of the vehicle, but he describes it as an MPV which could eventually spawn up to 14 different body styles.

Target price is just £5,000 which he claims will be fully recuperated by the owner within four years because of the cheap running costs. The project has been in development for 12 months now and we are likely to see the first preview of the model sometime in 2009.

Source: autocar

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 Racketeer Racketeer
Where in the world are those luxurious parking spaces (second pic) located? The spaces in the UK and elsewhere are a lot smaller!
July 7, 2008 12:36 pm
 DeleteThisAccount DeleteThisAccount
Sounds like a great idea in theory.
July 7, 2008 1:47 pm
 Joe_Limon Joe_Limon
haha I want a podium with my name on it. Now lets see if anything materializes...
July 7, 2008 2:16 pm
 Bremen_Koenigsegg Bremen_Koenigsegg
Just £5 000 for a fully capable, frugal less-than-1 tonne city car? This is not as far-fetched an idea as major auto manufacturers make it seem. So far, manufacturing a car has followed the basic principle of "more is more"; that is, more room, more robots, and more capacity makes more product. The great thing about Gordon Murray is that he is a brilliant problem-solver, which is largely a result of his wealth of creativity. By closely considering your choice of materials and manufacturing techniques, it is possible to drastically undercut the major auto-manufacturers who all have locked-in mass-production methods. I hope GMD all the best! I'm anticipating a plug-in city EV.
July 7, 2008 11:46 pm
 DeleteThisAccount DeleteThisAccount
You're right actually, but the truth is we don't Gordon Murray to do that, we can just start importing those wonderful Kei cars they sell in Japan.
July 8, 2008 7:49 am
 marcel marcel
Go Gordon!!!! - I am glad to see we South African's can still do it. Mclaren F1 is still one of the alltime best supercars.
July 8, 2008 7:58 am