Video Gordon Murray T-50: V12 4.0 N/A 663cv 986kg / T.50 Niki Lauda 725cv 852kg

Que bueno, es un McLaren F1 un poco modernizado. Si es así mola.

Eso si, como motorista preferiría tener a un fabricante grande como fue el caso del F1 como BMW M, o como AMG en el caso de Pagani, que un constructor muy específico como es cosworth. Aunque a McLaren le ha funcionado por ahora bastante bien su colaboración con Ricardo que les hizo el motor de cero.

 

Yo creo que tanto Cosworth como Ricardo son buenas opciones si se trata de modelos de tirada tan limitada. Otra cosa sería que tuviesen que producir muchos más.

No se yo si un fabricante gordo quiere meterse hoy día en la “pringada” de ese pliego de condiciones que requiere Murray. En el caso de F1 y los Pagani, ambos motores casi existían ya.....sin embargo este es un desarrollo nuevo desde 0 que además dudo que tenga cabida en otro modelo. Raro que a un grande le interese.

 

Serie limitada de 100 unidades, lo va a distribuir en USA nada menos que Bruce Canepa, piloto y especialista en Porsche 959 https://www.bmwfaq.org/threads/el-porsche-959-de-bruce-canepa-763cv.898238/





Gordon Murray Automotive select Bruce Canepa, Canepa Group Inc. as North American representative of the GMA T.50 supercar

• Gordon Murray Automotive will produce the T.50 – the world’s lightest, most driver focused supercar
• Automotive designer Gordon Murray has designed the ultimate analog driver’s supercar unlike anything ever created
• Limited to 100 T.50 supercars worldwide
• Canepa selected as the T.50 Supercar North American Representative
• Canepa to handle all aspects of customer service; including importation, service/maintenance, and warranty. Canepa will also be a sales outlet for the T.50.

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Scotts Valley, CA | July 25, 2019 – UK automotive designer Gordon Murray has become an iconic master of design over the past decades, from Formula One race cars to the legendary McLaren F1 road car. The announcement of Gordon Murray Automotive’s supercar, the T.50, sent a proverbial shockwave throughout the automotive community. Having consulted on the project in its early phase of concept and development, the Canepa Group has been selected as the exclusive North American representative of the T.50 Supercar.

“Cars are meant to be driven, and this may be one of the most exciting road cars ever designed. I am both honored and excited to be a part of this amazing project.” – Bruce Canepa

Canepa is an industry leader in the collector car world; including sales, restoration and motorsports. Located in Scotts Valley, California, Canepa is central to the Silicon Valley and WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca. Experienced in premium luxury and performance vehicles, Bruce Canepa was deemed the perfect fit for Gordon Murray Automotive’s new supercar. As the sole North American representative, Canepa Group will handle all aspects of customer support for the new supercar from beginning to end for North American customers; including sales, importation, service/maintenance, and warranty. Interested parties are invited to contact Bruce Canepa at (831) 430-9940 or bruce@canepa.com regarding available build slots for the T.50.


About the T.50
The T.50 is a masterful blend of design, performance and beauty from one of the most storied automotive designers in the modern world, Gordon Murray. Built around a hand-laid carbon fiber monocoque, the T.50 is extremely lightweight even by today’s standards, weighing in at 2,160 pounds. With a bespoke 650 horsepower, Cosworth-designed 3.9-litre V12 that revs to 12,100rpm mated to a special 6-speed manual transmission, the T.50 promises to deliver one of the best driving experiences in history. Fan-assisted aerodynamics, excellent driving dynamics and the culmination of 50 years’ worth of experience together create one of the best driving cars on the planet, bar none. The T.50 marks Gordon Murray’s 50thautomotive project and includes design influences from many of his previous projects. Murray says “We expect this to be the last, and the greatest ‘analogue’ supercar ever built.”

Learn more about the T.50 at www.gordonmurraydesign.com.

Gordon Murray Automotive
Gordon Murray Automotive was launched in November 2017. The T.50 supercar will be the first model manufactured by the new company. Alongside production of its own vehicles, Gordon Murray Automotive will manufacture vehicles on a low-volume basis for external customers.

Gordon Murray Automotive forms part of a new corporate organisation for the engineering group, and is positioned as a sister company to Gordon Murray Design.


Gordon Murray Design
Gordon Murray Design is a visionary design and engineering company with its headquarters in Surrey, UK. It was established in 2007 with a focus on developing an innovative and disruptive manufacturing technology trademarked iStream, and has since built a global reputation as one of the finest automotive design teams in the world.

The company’s unique approach and truly creative thinking enables Gordon Murray Design to deliver complete car programmes in a highly efficient and innovative way from concept and design, through to prototype and development for production.



Professor Gordon Murray, CBE – biography
Gordon Murray was born in Durban, South Africa in 1946 and gained a Mechanical Engineering Diploma from Natal Technical College. He designed, built and raced his own sports car (the IGM Ford) in the National Class in South Africa during 1967 and 1968.

In 1969 Gordon moved to the UK and joined the Brabham Formula One Team as Technical Director, winning two world championships (1981 and 1983) during his 17 years with the team. Gordon joined McLaren Racing as Technical Director in 1988 and three consecutive championship wins (1988, 1989 and 1990) followed. In 1990, Gordon moved away from Formula One – after 50 Grand Prix wins – to concentrate on establishing a new company for the group, McLaren Cars Limited.

The company’s first project, the F1 road car, is still regarded as one of the world’s best-engineered cars. A racing version won two world sports car championships and the Le Mans 24-hour race on its first attempt in 1995. McLaren Cars then completed several other successful projects culminating in the Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren programme.

Gordon left McLaren in 2005 to set up a new company Gordon Murray Design Ltd (in 2007), of which he is Chairman and Technical Director. The innovative British company operates from Surrey, UK and aims to be the world leader in automotive design. It reverses the current industry trend for sub-contracting by having a complete in-house capability for design, prototyping and development.

In 2017, Gordon Murray Design celebrated the company’s 10-year anniversary along with that of the iStream® manufacturing process. At a special event, named ‘One Formula’ Gordon Murray also celebrated the 25th anniversary of the McLaren F1 road car entering production, and his 50th year of car design and engineering.

In May 2019, Professor Murray was made a Commander of the British Empire (CBE) by the Duke of Cambridge, Prince William. The ceremony, held at Buckingham Palace, recognised the contributions made by Murray to the motorsport and automotive sectors over the past 50 years.


Enquiries:

North America Enquiries:

• For media enquiries: zach@canepa.com
• For general enquiries: info@canepa.com

Gordon Murray Automotive Enquiries:

• For enquiries regarding T.50, please contact: enquiries@gordonmurrayautomotive.com.
• For all media and press related enquiries, please contact our Press & PR team: t50media@gordonmurrayautomotive.com.

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Pues si, parece un F1 en "pequeño" y moderno.
Aunque con el ventilador ese ahí detrás parece anfibio.

 

Quiere participar en la categoría hypercar de Le Mans

Gordon Murray eyes Le Mans return with McLaren F1 successor
by Dominic Tobin on 24th September 2019

Gordon Murray confirms that he's in talks to race his T.50 McLaren F1 successor at Le Mans



McLaren F1's spiritual successor could return to Le Mans Photo: Motorsport Images

Legendary car designer Gordon Murray is planning to return to Le Mans with his new supercar – almost 25 years after his most famous creation, the McLaren F1, triumphed in the world’s biggest endurance race.

Murray is in talks to run his new T.50 design at Le Mans, which will feature a new class for hypercars from 2021 as part of a shakeup of the FIA World Endurance Championship rulebook. The new rules are meant to allow road-based sports cars, prototypes, hybrids and non-hybrids to compete for overall victory.

The T.50 has been billed as the spiritual successor to the McLaren F1, with its V12 engine, three-seat layout, and lightweight construction.



Like the F1, it has been developed as a driver-focused road car, but its compact size and sporting dynamics should boost its chances. One element that won’t be carried across to the track, however, is the car’s downforce-generating fan, which will likely have to be removed for competition.

Speaking at a Motor Sport Game Changers event, Murray confirmed that he was in talks with Le Mans organiser, the ACO, about entering the T.50.

The supercar is being built by Gordon Murray Automotive, a company set up to manufacture the 100-car production run.



T.50 sketch shows layout and airflow Image: Gordon Murray Automotive

Toyota, Aston Martin and Glickenhaus have all confirmed entries into the new World Endurance Championship hypercar category, so an overall victory by Murray’s niche sports car would mark a much greater upset than the McLaren F1’s Le Mans victory in 1995.

The highest-placed car qualified just ninth, behind prototype WR-Peugeots, Courages and a Kremer, as well as Ferrari F40s.

But wet weather, technical issues and inspired driving from the McLaren drivers closed the performance gap and meant that the top three places were filled by F1s by midnight.

Victory was far from assured, as the McLarens’ clutches started to drag in the final hours of the race, enabling the Courage car, driven by Mario Andretti, Eric Helary and Bob Wollek, to close in by ten seconds a lap.

Andretti made it through to second in his final stint, but Yannick Dalmas held on to take victory alongside his team-mates, JJ Lehto and Masanori Sekiya.
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Gordon Murray Automotive partners with Racing Point Formula One team to ensure T.50 supercar has most advanced aerodynamics ever


Collaboration with Racing Point Formula One Team will facilitate access to state-of-the-art wind tunnel and the pinnacle of motorsport expertise
First official T.50 image reveals purity and drama
Murray shares details of ground-effect ‘fan car’ innovation that rewrites the rulebook for road-car aerodynamics
Six aero modes enable driver to optimise dynamic and outright performance
Vmax Mode and ram induction boost T.50 output to 700hp
Gordon Murray Automotive (GMA) is partnering with the Racing Point Formula One Team to further develop and test the aerodynamics of its forthcoming T.50 supercar. According to Professor Gordon Murray, the driver-focused new model will have the most advanced and most effective aerodynamics ever seen on a road car.

In addition to utilising the race team’s advanced rolling-road wind tunnel at its Silverstone (UK) headquarters, GMA will gain insight and expertise from Racing Point’s highly-experienced engineers.

The announcement comes as GMA reveals the first official image of the T.50 supercar ahead of its global unveiling – set for May 2020. The rendering shows the purity and drama of the T.50, which has been penned by Professor Gordon Murray and the design team at Gordon Murray Design.

Contrasting with the clean lines of the T.50 body, perhaps the most notable feature of the exterior is the rear-end, which is dominated by a 400mm ground-effect fan – part of a unique airflow management system. Coupled with active underbody aerodynamics and dynamic rear aerofoils, the revolutionary aero system enables the T.50 to achieve considerably more aerodynamic performance and control than a conventional ground-effect supercar contributing to an unrivalled driving experience.

The T.50 features six different aero modes that optimise the car for different scenarios to balance traction and outright performance. The most extreme – Vmax Mode – combines motorsport slipstream technology, extra power from a 48-volt integrated starter-generator, and ram induction to boost power to 700hp.

The announcement comes as customer allocations of the T.50, priced in excess of £2 million before taxes, enter their final phase. The majority of the exclusive production run of 100 cars has already been allocated to automotive enthusiasts. The supercar has generated demand from a wider than expected global customer base, with a significant number heading to customers in the USA and Japan.

Weighing just 980kg, the T.50 will deliver the purest, most driver-focused performance and dynamics of any road car. The car’s bespoke Cosworth V12 will be the highest-revving road car engine ever made, capable of an extraordinary 12,100rpm.

The rear-wheel drive T.50 features Murray’s favoured three-seat layout, with the driver benefitting from a central ‘jet-fighter-style’ driving position. Aligned with Gordon Murray’s claim that the T.50 could be the pinnacle of great analogue supercars, the driver-centric analogue controls are positioned to provide the ultimate, highly-intuitive, and totally-immersive driving experience.

Formula One aerodynamics partnership

The Racing Point Formula One Team rebranded from Racing Point Force India earlier this year, under the leadership of Canadian businessman Lawrence Stroll. The Racing Point HQ in Silverstone (UK) is the hub for all of the race team’s design, R&D, component manufacture, and its race car production.

The partnership with Gordon Murray Automotive will see the T.50 move from software-based aerodynamic testing (via computational fluid dynamics) to physical testing in the Racing Point rolling-road wind tunnel from early next year. Few facilities in the world can offer T.50 such sophisticated, performance-focused aerodynamic testing capabilities and allow the use of a 40% scale model.

Team owner, Lawrence Stroll, said: “Working on the T.50 with Gordon Murray Automotive is an honour and a privilege for everyone at Racing Point. Our aerodynamicists will utilise our wind tunnel to harness the very latest Formula One expertise and experience for the T.50 project, ensuring Gordon’s revolutionary fan concept delivers its full potential. I have admired the design and engineering skills of Gordon Murray since his earliest days in Formula One, so it is a personal pleasure to support this project, which truly rewrites the rulebook on aerodynamics.”

Professor Gordon Murray CBE, Chairman of Gordon Murray Group, said:“Formula One remains a deep passion of mine, so partnering with Racing Point to develop the T.50 is hugely exciting. I’ve dreamt of delivering a road car with a ground-effect fan since I designed the Brabham BT46B F1 racing car in 1978. The system on the T.50 is much more sophisticated than the Brabham’s and will benefit enormously from Racing Point’s expertise and resources.”

The most advanced aerodynamics of any road car

The T.50 takes road-car aerodynamics to entirely new levels with Murray’s ground-breaking design significantly enhancing the supercar’s ground-effect capabilities. To achieve unmatched aerodynamic performance, the car’s 400mm fan rapidly accelerates air passing under the car, forcing it through active boundary-layer control ducts that form part of the rear diffuser.

The fan and its associated ducting system build on conventional ground effect systems by actively helping control both the underbody and overbody airflow ensuring that both airflow systems interact to ensure absolute control of the enhanced aerodynamics and improve the car’s performance.

The underbody airflow system allows Gordon Murray Automotive to achieve purity of design for the car’s upper surfaces, with air flowing over the top of the car undisturbed by unsightly vents, ducts, or flaps. At the rear, air is channelled down through vents to cool the powertrain oil. Also, a pair of active aerofoils at the rear of the car contribute to downforce or shedding drag, as required.

The fan’s design and underbody ducting does away with the need for a ‘skirt’ – like that of the BT46B Fan Car – while the vertical inlet ducting ensures no road debris passes through the fan. The novel system has multiple benefits, enhancing engine cooling, boosting downforce and maximising efficiency. The various fan functions, combined with the underbody ducting and activation of the rear aerofoils, are controlled seamlessly as part of the car’s six distinct aero modes.

Two modes operate without any driver input. ‘Auto Mode’ is the car’s default, which optimises use of the rear aerofoil, fan and underbody diffusers in response to speed and driver inputs. When high levels of deceleration are required, ‘Braking Mode’ deploys the rear aerofoils automatically and the fan operates simultaneously at high speed. This function doubles the levels of downforce, enhancing stability and grip, and enables the T.50 to pull up a full 10 metres shorter when braking from 150mph.

The other four aero modes are driver-selectable. ‘High Downforce Mode’ delivers enhanced traction – where the fan and the aerofoils work together to increase downforce by 30%. At the flick of a switch, the driver can shift to ‘Streamline Mode’, to reduce drag by 10% and boost straight-line speed, while also reducing fuel consumption and downforce. This mode closes the underbody ducts and sets the fan to operate at high speed to extend the trailing wake of the car, creating a ‘virtual longtail’.

When maximum velocity is required, the ‘Vmax Mode’ can be deployed by the driver at the push of a button. This utilises the same aerodynamic configuration as ‘Streamline Mode’, but adds an extra boost of around 30hp for up to three minutesby adding power to the crankshaft from the car’s 48-volt integrated starter-generator.

Finally, ‘Test Mode’ operates when the car is at standstill to demonstrate the capability of the aero system.

Purity and drama – official T.50 styling revealed

Since the T.50 was announced in June this year, media have speculated on the design of the supercar. No official images have been revealed by the Gordon Murray Design team – until now. The rear three-quarter image released by the Surrey-based design team shows how purity and drama are combined to produce a unique and distinctive supercar.

Aerodynamics plays a critical role in defining the proportions and styling of the T.50. Clean, flowing upper surfaces contrast sharply with the dramatic rear, which is dominated by a prominent 400mm-diameter fan. The entire rear end design is technically driven, with the fan, engine exhaust, ground effect diffusers and engine bay cooling featuring prominently.

Down its centre-line the rear deck rises subtly to accommodate the substantial 'fan assembly', the trailing edge of which extends just beyond the rear. Flanking the fan outlet on the upper surface are a pair of dynamic aerofoils that actively manage airflow at speed, according to the aero mode in operation.

The profile of the T.50 is distinguished by the radiator exit duct outlet behind the front wheel and the profiled dihedral door and monocoque. This concept of ‘functional bodywork’ is also evident in the engine ram induction duct in the roof of the car.

Professor Murray said: “We were highly focused on achieving the purest possible form for the T.50, an objective we’ve achieved through world-first engineering innovations and active underbody aerodynamics. We will reveal the completed design at the T.50 supercar’s global debut in May.”

Customer uptake grows strongly as T.50 development continues at a pace

Professor Murray said: “We’ve been taken aback by the enthusiastic reaction of buyers from across the globe. The first customer deliveries will take place in January 2022, on schedule, with every customer who has already been allocated their T.50 receiving their car that year.”

As whole-vehicle and component development continues at pace, the completed body will be ready for physical aero testing early in the first quarter of 2020. Then, before the mid-year point, the world will see the T.50 in all its glory at its global unveiling in May.

The first quarter of 2020 will also see the opening of Gordon Murray Automotive’s Customer Experience Centre at the company’s Dunsfold Park site, which includes a service centre alongside the new headquarters and manufacturing facility.

-Ends-

Gordon Murray Automotive – T.50 – Technical specification


Configuration

Supercar with GT capability
Coupé – central driving position
Dimensions

Length: 4,349 mm
Width: 1,850 mm
Height: 1,152 mm
Wheelbase: 2,700 mm
Front track: 1,586 mm
Rear track: 1,525 mm
Weight: 980 kg
Chassis / Body

Full carbon fibre pre-preg monocoque, carbon fibre body
Engine

Type / number: Cosworth GMA
Configuration: V12 semi-structural
V. angle: 65°
Displacement: 3,994 cc
Valve train: Double overhead camshafts / variable valve timing / 4 valves per cylinder
Lubrication system: Dry sump
Maximum power: 650 hp
Maximum torque: 450 Nm
Maximum rpm: 12,100 rpm
Starter: 48-volt integrated starter
Alternator: 48-volt ISG (integrated starter-generator)
Transmission

Configuration: Transverse all synchro constant mesh
Speeds: 6 forward and reverse
Gear selection: Manual with reverse lockout
Suspension

Front: Double wishbone with anti-roll bar
Rear: Double wishbone – included axis GSP system
Steering

TypeRack and pinion with LSPA
Aerodynamics

Full ground-effect with fan-assisted boundary-layer control
6 aero modes
About Gordon Murray Automotive

Gordon Murray Automotive was launched in November 2017 and will manufacture exclusive low volume sports cars – the T.50 supercar will be the brand’s halo model. The company forms part of a new corporate organisation for the engineering group, and is positioned as a sister company to Gordon Murray Design.

About Gordon Murray Design

Gordon Murray Design is a visionary design and engineering company headquartered in Surrey, UK. Established in 2007, its focus is on developing innovative and disruptive manufacturing technologies trademarked iStream®. The company has built a global reputation as one of the finest automotive design and engineering teams in the world.

The company’s unique approach and truly creative thinking enables Gordon Murray Design to deliver complete car programmes in a highly efficient and innovative way from concept and design, through to prototype and development for production.

About Professor Gordon Murray, CBE

Having spent 20 years as Technical Director to two Formula One teams from 1969-1990 Gordon Murray has a wealth of technical, design and engineering experience. At Brabham he was instrumental in two world championship wins (1981 and 1983) before three consecutive championship wins with McLaren Racing (1988, 1989 and 1990). In 1990 – after 50 Grand Prix wins – Gordon moved away from Formula One to concentrate on establishing a new company for the group, McLaren Cars Limited.

His first project there, the F1 road car, is still regarded as one of the world’s best-engineered cars. A racing version won two world sports car championships and the Le Mans 24-hour race in 1995. McLaren Cars then completed several other successful projects culminating in the Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren.

Gordon left McLaren in 2005 to set up a Gordon Murray Design Ltd (in 2007), of which he is Chairman. The innovative British company is a world leader in automotive design, and reverses the current industry trend for sub-contracting by having a complete in-house capability for design, prototyping, and development.

In 2017, Gordon Murray Design celebrated the company’s 10-year anniversary along with that of the iStream manufacturing process at a special event, named ‘One Formula’. Gordon also marked the 25th production anniversary of the McLaren F1 road car, and his 50th year of design and engineering.

In May 2019, Professor Murray was made a Commander of the British Empire (CBE) by the Duke of Cambridge, Prince William, in recognition of his contributions to the motorsport and automotive sectors over the past 50 years.

 

Igual hinchando las ruedas con helio...

 

Que coj*nes es eso que lleva en el culo? Parece un p*to batmovil... De verdad que según avanza la automoción... Me gusta cada vez menos lo que sale. Parezco el abuelo cebolleta a mis 35 años, pero yo veo un F458 con una cosa rara en medio en ese culo... Será la hostia en verso en aerodinámica. Pero feo como pegar a un padre con la un calcetín sudao.

Un saludo.

 

Es un ventilador para forzar el flujo de aire, si lo ha hecho Gordon Murray no es de adorno
A mi el coche me gusta, es muy parecido al F1

 

No no, si ya digo que será la hostia en verso aerodinámicamente... Pero feo. Mmmuyy feo jaja

 

Para mí es más bonito que los aleronacos a los que pretende sustituir, como el del Senna que es una barra de bar...

 

Bueno es que éste último ya digo en el otro hilo que creo que no es digno de llevar tan ilustre apellido. Quitando el morro me parece otro aborto tanto el alerón horroroso ese que lleva como el culo... Bueno el interior tampoco me gusta nada. Pero bueno, ya digo que según salen cosas nuevas, quitando honrosas excepciones...

Un saludo.

 

La integracion del peazo ventilador tal vez no sea la mas elegante pero el coche me fascina y me sorprende que coches asi todavia puedan ver la luz (aunque todavia no cantemos victoria que ya sabemos la de problemas que tienen ultimamente los fabricantes sacando sus hiperdeportivos: AMG One, Valkyrie etc).

 

lo he leído si... pero es que no acabo de creermelo, ¿un ventilador?, c**o... ¿no podrían habler hablado con Dyson y prescindir de las aspas?

 

Creo que lo que se ve no son las aspas que giran, parecen ser fijas para distribuir el aire saliente además de por seguridad y las que se mueven las lleva dentro, en el dibujo técnico se ve un ventilador con dobles aspas




Aquí se ve que eso no gira, a mi me parece que va fijo

 

A parte de que a la velocidad que debe de llevar el coche cuando eso empiece a rodar dudo que vaya nadie a meter la mano

 

Además de que solo se fabricarán 100 coches a 2 millones más impuestos, será improbable que le meta nadie la mano

 

Gordon Murray tiene un Alpine A110 que le ha flipado tanto que lo ha desarmado para usarlo como referencia en el T50, dice que el A110 es lo mejor que ha probado desde el Lotus Evora, que era su favorito hasta ahora.
Lo ha vuelto a armar y lo usa como coche de diario, junto al nuevo Jinmy
Ya hizo lo mismo con un NSX que tubo durante 6 años, lo desarmo para usarlo de referencia en el desarrollo del F1

Gordon Murray Liked His Alpine A110 So Much, He Took It Apart

The legendary McLaren F1 designer told us that he took his own A110 to pieces in order to benchmark it against his incoming T.50 hypercar



If you’re developing a car like the Gordon Murray Automotive T.50, you’re going to have a hard time benchmarking it. With a semi-stressed naturally-aspirated V12 that revs to 12,100rpm and a ruddy great fan on the back, there’s nothing out there anything like it.

The solution former Formula 1 designer Professor Gordon Murray arrived at was simple. He told Car Throttle that he wasn’t going to benchmark at all, merely using the 30,000 miles he’s done in a McLaren F1 - the T.50’s predecessor - as a point of reference. And then the Alpine A110 arrived.



Gordon Murray Design@PlanetGMD


Gordon has taken delivery of his new @AlpineCarsUK #A110
Could this be the replacement for his Smart Roadster?



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“A year ago I bought an Alpine A110, and it has the best ride and handling compromise of anything I’ve driven since the Lotus Evora, which was top of my list before this,” he said, adding, “When you analyse that car [the A110] - and we did, we pulled mine apart for two months, we benchmarked it - that car’s got nothing trick on it. It just does the basics really well.”

That’s right, he took apart his own Alpine. Presumably, it has since gone back together, as Murray name-checks it as his daily driver, used alongside a current-generation Suzuki Jimny.


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Gordon has taken delivery of his new @AlpineCarsUK #A110
Could this be the replacement for his Smart Roadster?



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I remember talking Mr Murray through the 'naked' body-in-white at Geneva in March 2017. He was gracious enough to say that we had done a good job of it - praise indeed from a man who knows what he's talking about when the subject is lightweight structures. Hope he enjoys the car!


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Former Alpine chief engineer David Twohig responded personally when Murray announced the arrival of his A110
The 73-year-old has previous in this area. He owned a Honda NSX for over six years, which was used as a benchmark with the McLaren F1. As with the A110, it was far less powerful than the car it was referenced against, but so impressed was Murray with the car’s ride and handling balance, it had to be the target to aim for.

https://www.carthrottle.com/post/gordon-murray-liked-his-alpine-a110-so-much-he-took-it-apart/

 

Probando en Cosworth una mula del motor V 12 con un 3 cilindros a 12.100 rpm en este vídeo https://www.instagram.com/p/B-FP7PgFzeK/

...y presentando su nuevo website https://www.instagram.com/gordonmurrayautomotive/

 

Gordon Murray T50 Hypercar: Bespoke V12 Engine Undergoes First Tests At Over 12k RPM
MARCH 24, 2020 3

Gordon Murray Automotive celebrates the launch of their website with a short video showing the T50 hypercar’s naturally aspirated V12 engine being tested on Cosworth’s facilities.


The video shows Cosworth bench-testing a mule three-cylinder version of the V12 engine, revving it at just over 12,100 rpm and performing preliminary emissions testing.

Read More: Gordon Murray T.50 – McLaren F1 Successor’s Rear Fan Looks Like A Sci-Fi Thruster

The upcoming T50 hypercar will be powered by a bespoke Cosworth-developed 3.9-liter V12 engine which will be capable of spinning up to 12,100 rpm, producing 650 HP and 331 lb-ft (450 Nm) of torque.



The engine will also feature a 48-volt integrated starter generator, as well as a ram induction to boost its final figures closer to 700 HP. Both direct and port fuel injection will be employed, as well as a dry sump oil system. Power will be sent to the rear wheels alone via six-speed manual transmission.

All this in a hypercar that targets a weight figure of just 980 kg (2,160 lbs), as Gordon Murray wants to build, once again, the purest, most driver-focused machine with number plates available.



As the spiritual successor of the McLaren F1, the T50 will also feature a three-seat layout with the driver sitting in the middle but the biggest trick up its sleeve is to be found on its aerodynamic package.

The highlight here is a massive 400mm electric fan mounted at the back that will suck the air from under the car and drastically increase downforce or reduce drag when needed. The system will offer six modes, including ‘High Downforce’ and ‘Streamline’.

Murray plans to produce 125 examples of the T50 in total – 100 for the road and a batch of 25 track-only editions. The first deliveries are scheduled for 2022.

 

Que maravilla de aparato, como sonará eso... esto es sin duda un brote de aire fresco en el mundo de la hibridación, downsizing, sobrealimentación, sobrepeso y automatizaciones. Una de las eminencias de la historia del automóvil presenta un proyecto sin limitaciones que contradice en casi todo las tendencias de la industria: V12, atmosferico, manual, menos de 1Tn,...impecable.

 

Gordon Murray Explains How He’s Making the T.50 So Lightweight
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One of the men behind the world’s greatest supercar, the McLaren F1, is back at it. After spending several years pondering what may be considered the first true successor to the F1, the South African finally decided to go for it and last year announced the T.50.








Targeting a weight of just 980 kg (2,160 pounds), the T.50 should become the world’s lightest supercar, because as Murray says, “a heavy car can never deliver the dynamic attributes of a lighter one.” And with the reduced weight come some interesting numbers.

In an attempt to explain why lighter is better, Murray crunched in the numbers and released the results of the math this week, just to keep us focused on the matter. He based his comparison chart on an average weight for a supercar of 1,436 kg (3,166 pounds).

When it arrives sometime in 2022, the T.50 will hit the road with a naturally aspirated Cosworth 3.9-liter engine in V12 configuration. Described as the highest-revving road car engine ever made (12,100 rpm) it should develop 650 hp as standard, occasionally boosted by a 48-volt integrated starter-generator to 700 hp.

Applying those numbers to the weight of the vehicle means every 100 horsepower would have to move along 150 kg (330 pounds) of car, as opposed to the 210 kg (463 pounds) the same troop needs to move on an average supercar.

The low weight of the car was achieved – or will be, as we are yet to see an actual, real life prototype - by making extensive use of carbon fiber on pretty much everything from the body panels to the three seats fitted inside.

The whole monocoque-body panels assembly weighs under 150 kg (331 pounds): the engine has been tweaked into weighing less than 180 kg (397 pounds) – the lightest road-going V12 ever made according to Gordon Murray.

What’s more, the weight of “every part, down to nuts, bolts and washers” is discussed by the engineering team in weekly meetings.

“Designing a lightweight sports car does not come from specifying exotic materials alone, it comes from a state of mind, from absolute focus and control, and from a deep understanding of lightweight, optimised design,” Murray said.

We'll just have to wait and see if the hype created around this car is worth it, but knowing Murray's work, it most likely will.

 

Así suena el V12 del T50 en banco, ya lo habíamos oído en una mula tricilíndrica pero este suena mejor y eso que solo sube hasta 1.500 rpm... no quiero imaginarlo a 12.100 rpm

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The all-new Cosworth GMA V12 fires up for the first time today and revs to 1,500rpm - looking forward to the full 12,100rpm in the coming weeks. #gma #t50 #cosworth #gordonmurray #supercar

 

¡Está vivo! Así suena el motor V12 del T.50 de Gordon Murray en banco de pruebas, y promete ser extremadamente rápido

Gordon Murray está preparando algo muy serio. El padre del McLaren F1 está desarrollando un coche que estará dispuesto a medirse al resto de superdeportivos de las grandes marcas, y lo hará sin ningún pudor, sólo con la garantía de ser el heredero espiritual de uno de los coches que marcaron una época en la automoción.

El T.50 sigue su proceso de desarrollo para convertirse en un nuevo hito, y ya hemos vuelto a escuchar cómo suena su motor. Está vivo y su ronroneo en banco de pruebas ya promete ser un coche para el recuerdo.


T.50: una bestia sin limitaciones

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En esta ocasión lo que hemos podido escuchar es a la configuración final del motor. El bloque desarrollado por los especialistas de Cosworth bajo las directrices de Murray es un V12 3.9 de aspiración natural, una configuración reservada exclusivamente a superdeportivos de pura raza y la época dorada de la Fórmula 1, a la que pertenece Murray.

El vídeo publicado en redes sociales nos deja entrever al majestuoso propulsor al desnudo, anclado a un banco de potencia sobre el que se están realizando los primeros test. Unas pruebas que, de momento, sólo nos permiten escuchar al bloque rodando hasta las 1.500 revoluciones. Un aperitivo bastante insulso para un motor que promete llevar su línea roja hasta las 12.100 revoluciones: un giro más rápido que el de los motores de los Aston Martin Valkyrie (11.100 rpm).



Por lo pronto y pese a lo escueto del vídeo, la creación de Gordon Murray Automotive cumple con lo prometido, ofreciendo un motor de giro rápido y en configuración de uve cerrada (65º). Veremos si las cifras anunciadas de 650 CV y 450 Nm de par motor llegan a buen puerto, pero parecen bastante razonables para un superdeportivo que pretende detener la báscula en 980 kg.

Anteriormente ya pudimos escuchar un teaser a escala. En aquella ocasión el motor se limitaba a un bloque de tres cilindros en línea que Cosworth estaba utilizando para validar el funcionamiento del diseño. Ahora, ese ronroneo habría que multiplicarlo por cuatro.



En otro vídeo publicado en su canal de YouTube también hemos podido ver los trabajos que Xtrac está llevando a cabo para finalizar la caja de cambios. La elección es una transmisión manual de seis velocidades que enviará la fuerza exclusivamente hasta las ruedas traseras del T.50.

Lo cierto es que el Gordon Murray Automotive T.50 pinta realmente bien. Ensamblado sobre un chasis monocasco específico de fibra de carbono y enfocado en la ligereza, el T.50 está previsto que sea un coche extremadamente rápido, con la totalidad de sus piezas realizadas ex profeso para ajustar el peso final del conjunto y maximizar el rendimiento.



Entre otras muchas cosas, las medidas utilizadas para mejorar el comportamiento del T.50 son un centro de gravedad extremadamente bajo, con un motor equipado con cárter seco, parabrisas un 28% más fino de lo habitual, transmisión aligerada 10 kg, un motor que pesará menos de 180 kg y una pedalera 300 gr más ligera. Por supuesto, el bloque ubicado en posición central, justo por detrás del habitáculo.

La última criatura del diseñador sudafricano será una bestia sin compromisos que debería llegar en 2021. Sólo habrá 100 unidades del T.50 y cada una superará de largo los 2 millones de euros. Lo que falta es ver si esta creación será capaz de batir en velocidad y carisma al emblemático McLaren F1.

 

Desde el principio se viene diciendo que pesará menos de 180 kg, pero aquí dicen que son 177 libras = 80,5 kg, imagino que será una errata... o no
edito, si es una errata, pesa 178 kg

The Cosworth-powered T.50 will be the ultimate drivers' car.

Gordon Murray Design has revealed the bespoke Cosworth-designed V12 engine that will power its upcoming supercar, the T.50. Seen as a spiritual successor to the Murray-penned McLaren F1, which was powered by a BMW V12, the T.50 is inspired by the former world's fastest car.

As a result, an off-the-shelf engine simply wouldn't do. The 3.9-liter engine had to be light and responsive. It's not only the lightest naturally aspirated V12 road car engine ever, weighing in at a mere 177 pounds (80.5 kilograms), but it is also the highest revving, fastest responding, most power-dense V12 powerplant ever fitted to a road car too.

"More than half of any truly great driving experience is delivered by the engine, so right from the start I set the highest possible benchmark – to create the world’s greatest naturally-aspirated V12," said Gordon Murray. "To be truly remarkable, an engine needs to have the right character; highly-responsive, an amazing sound, engaging torque delivery, free-revving, and it has to be naturally aspirated. For all those reasons, the engine in the T.50 was never going to be anything other than a V12."

The engine produces 654 hp with a redline at 12,100 rpm. 71 percent of the car's maximum torque is delivered at 2,500 rpm, while the full 344 lb-ft of torque comes in at 9,000 rpm.

Keeping with the McLaren F1 vibe, the engine will be mated to a proper, old-school six-speed H-pattern manual gearbox to ensure that the sub-2,200 lbs (1,000 kg) T.50 will be the ultimate drivers' car. As well as the engine's function, its form was also carefully considered by Murray.


"Above all else, I wanted it to look clean like the BMW S70/2 engine, which had no carbon or plastic covers," he said. "It was just inlet trumpets, cam covers, exhaust block and heads, and a few belt-driven ancillaries that I managed to squeeze out of sight.


"In designing the T.50 V12, I wanted it to be the antidote to the modern supercar where you can’t see the engine beneath carbon covers."

Bruce Wood, Cosworth's managing director described the T.50 project as "one of the toughest" that Cosworth has ever worked on, but said it was a "genuine thrill" to be involved with the project.

"The criteria and benchmarks set by Gordon for the T.50 engine comprised one of the toughest engine briefs we’ve ever taken on," he said. "It pushes the boundaries in every direction and it is a genuine thrill for everyone at Cosworth to be part of what will surely become as fabled a vehicle as Gordon’s McLaren F1 before it."

 

Acabo de ver la información oficial de Gordon Murray y confirma que el peso son 178 kg, lo de antes es una errata.
https://gordonmurrayautomotive.com/...nufacturing company - Final - 20 Oct 2017.pdf

 

"parabrisas un 28% más fino de lo habitual, transmisión aligerada 10 kg, un motor que pesará menos de 180 kg y una pedalera 300 gr más ligera. "
Respecto a qué?

 

El logotipo de la marca no puede ser más horrible.

 

Bueno, este de la sirena no está mal, pero el de la cabeza sola...





... no puedo evitar en relacionarlo con este de los champús




... imagino que será un guiño a los que llevamos la melena al viento en los cabrio