Gordon Murray has already started work on the follow-up to his spectacular T.50 supercar – and he has revealed to car express that the next model will be much more budget-friendly while still using the T.50’s high-revving, typically aspirated V12 engine.
The T.50 and its T.50s track version are both now sold out, despite before-tax price labels of £2.3m and £3.1m respectively. The first examples of the road model, which is limited to 100 units, ought to arrive in customers’ hands in 2022.
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But as his Gordon Murray group announced a £300m investment plan that will allow it to develop its own pure-electric car architecture, the former F1 designer revealed that his team is already formulating the automobile that will follow the two Gordon Murray Automotive fan-assisted supercars.
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Referred to as project Two, the automobile will have a much more conventional two-seat layout instead of the T.50’s three-seat configuration – and this implies that its construction will need to be developed from scratch. “The T.50’s powertrain feeds back into project Two,” Murray said. “But it is a brand new platform; we’re starting again on that. The T.50 was a distinct monocoque because of the fan and the central driving position, and it’s very challenging to take that and adapt it to a two-seater.