And Gordon Murray signed the first customer chassis to celebrate the occasion.
Almost two and a half years after Gordon Murray and his dapper mustache revealed the T.50 supercar, Murray has marked the first chassis of the 100 hand-assembled production cars going out to customers with his signature. It's a landmark moment in so many ways, particularly as this will likely be the car automotive history remembers as the last of the great naturally aspirated V12-powered sports cars. While every other supercar builder is losing cylinders and gaining batteries, Murray and his team have managed to push through the pandemic and build an ode to the supercar as we'll never know it again, and with a 656-horsepower engine that Cosworth acknowledges as being its best work yet.
"From the very moment we announced T.50 - conceived to be the world's most driver-centric supercar - I've been looking forward to this day," says Murray. "Designing and engineering the T.50 has been an incredible journey with much of the initial work completed during lockdown, so to witness the engineering art of the first customer car's carbon-fiber monocoque ready for assembly, less than two-and-a-half years since reveal, is quite magical."
It's been a rapid development process, but the supercar is now officially in production, and it's only a matter of time before customers get to experience the real successor to the McLaren F1. "The team at Gordon Murray Automotive (GMA) should be justly proud of what they have achieved, and I can't wait to hear customers' reactions when they take delivery of their cars," adds Murray.
The GMA T.50 spearheads the company's entry into the automotive market and will be followed by the similarly powered T.33 supercar. The T.33 will be differentiated as more of a grand touring supercar, with only two seats and featuring more traditional yet cutting-edge aerodynamics than the ground effect fan the T.50 uses. There will also be 25 T.50s models developed as track specials named after Niki Lauda.
From there, who knows what Murray has planned, but it will surely be spectacular and backed by GMA's Global Service Centre network. Locations are set to open in Germany, Spain, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the Kingdom of Bahrain, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, Australia, and six locations in America. That means GMA isn't planning to do a couple of limited-run cars and call it a day.
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