Where is Murray’s T25?
One of the most promising green car concepts out there actually comes from the designer of the McLaren F1, but it seems to be taking an extremely long time to get this little car baked and out of the oven. For example journalist Nancy Durham recently visited Gordon Murray and wasn’t even permitted to see the car. Instead she got to grope it through the cloth cover. Read about that at CBCNews.ca.
His concept is super simple, literally. Instead of building a complex hybrid or fuel cell monstrosity he’s taking his experience as an ultralight super car designer and creating the simplest tiny car he can. It will use a efficient gasoline engine and will be designed for easy low-impact manufacturing. It is promised to be revolutionary in construction and concept, which is the whole reason he’s being so secretive about every little detail.
Gordon Murray In The New York Times
I just spotted this short write-up in the New York Times on Gordon Murray’s T25. Departing from super exotic super cars Murray has taken himself into the world of ultra green micro cars. Only the T25’s tiny shape has been revealed so far, along with some general themes that guide it’s creation like… it has to be cool to drive, safe, inexpensive, easily recycled, and easily produced.
I don’t think any more news about the drive train has been released but the last work I heard was that it would be an small ultra efficient gasoline motor. I personally can’t wait to see what rolls out of his top secret workshop next year. Murray is an amazing designer, its great to see him applying his talents to an ultra green project. Photo credit New York Times.
By the way… the little green things in the photo represent the T25 and show the scale compared to much larger cars like the smart fortwo. It’s smaller than a Mini and a smart fortwo. It’s even smaller than the original Mini Cooper.
T.25 Revealed – Almost
We’ve been waiting for some news about Gordon Murray’s T.25. His little design shop, Gordon Murray Design Limited, has been very tight lipped in the past few months but news is finally leaking out about the progress they have been making on the super green T.25.
Gordon Murray is better known for his designing supercars like the McLaren F1 and the Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren. But that looks like a new reputation much be building behind the closed doors of his top secret design shop. At a recent anniversary event his team reveled a full size mock-up wrapped in silver foil so the public could get an idea of how small the T.25 will be. But unfortunately he’s not ready for the full reveal. It’s inspired by the Mini and by the look of it, it’s even smaller. Even a smart fortwo is bigger.
Gordon Murray Design – The T25
You may recognize the name Gordon Murray. He is the guy that headed up the design for the road going McLaren F1 and Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren super cars. Recently he started up his own company, Gordon Murray Design, and his first project is a little green car, the T25.
The T25 is currently in the prototype phase and no photos are available. The idea is to implement a radical new approach to car construction that significantly reduces the overall impact of manufacturing, use, and dismantling. Lightweight materials are the key. Murray points out that all the future technologies are years away to real implementation so the best choice we have today is to design cars that use gas more efficiently, emit less carbon, are easier to build and take apart, and simply cost less financially and to the environment.
He wants the T25 to be inexpensive, simple, safe, and fun to drive. But it also must be “cool” to get buyers interested. Knowing Murray’s experience we suspect whatever he comes up with will be revolutionary and definitely fit into the cool category.
We’ll keep our ear to the ground on any future news on the T25. We can’t wait to see what Gordon Murray comes up with.
