Gordon Murray Will Custom-Make The One-Off Car Of Your Dreams
Gordon Murray is about to launch a new part of his automotive empire. Gordon Murray Special Vehicles is set up to build…wait for it… special vehicles. In this case, that means even more exclusive one-offs of the company’s already ultra-limited volume sports cars like the T.50. It will also build all-new bespoke models on a new platform. Vehicles that are completely different from its existing cars. What’s more, it will handle Murray’s heritage cars, a very broad statement that could cover everything from 1970s F1 fan cars to the Smart-based T25.
Gordon Murray Automotive
Gordon Murray Automotive (GMA) is a supercar manufacturer based in England and the brainchild of Formula 1 and McLaren F1 designer Gordon Murray. Officially founded in 2017, GMA was the realization of years of planning culminating in Gordon Murray bringing his automotive vision to life. Leading with the T.50 – the true spiritual successor to the McLaren F1, GMA has subsequently announced the track-only T.50s and a more conventional two-seat sports car called the T.33 in both Coupe and Spider variants.
- Founded
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20 October 2017
- Founder
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Gordon Murray
- Headquarters
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Windlesham, Surrey, England
- Owned By
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Gordon Murray Group
- Current CEO
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Mofid Elkemiri
- Production Status
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Available
The man is clearly good at cars, even if he’s a bit rubbish with names. The Gordon Murray Group is the top-level, controlling Gordon Murray Automotive. It will now also likely handle the special vehicles of Gordon Murray Special Vehicles. However, the new group will be at least somewhat independent and have its own engineers, so there are probably some great job postings in Woking right about now.
Customers Have Been Begging For Something More Exclusive
“Over the years, we have received many requests to design and build one-offs and specials of all kinds. This has only accelerated as our business and brand has matured and our resources have grown with dedicated engineering, design and manufacturing at our global HQ and technology campus,” said Murray himself.
But the company had resisted. It was too focused on the T.50 supercar and its only semi-exclusive variants. Cars like the T.50s Niki Lauda. It also had the T.33 range to worry about.
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Now, though, those cars are moving along. “As we have grown the business and team, we have established separate design and engineering departments for GMSV – it’s the perfect time to extend our offering to special vehicles,” he said.
Pure Continuations And Restomods Both Hinted
The GMA T.50 is a McLaren F1-inspired (another one of Murray’s designs) supercar with a 4.0-liter Cosworth V12 that can spin to 11,000 rpm. It makes 654 horsepower from that small displacement, and it has a fan to suck it to the road. Customers in Europe, the Middle East, and Japan have been taking delivery of their cars, with the US expected soon. From there, it moves to the track-only Niki Lauda model and then the T.33, which is marketed as a Grand Tourer.
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With all those cars on the way out the door, now is the time to build new things. It sounds like the sky is the limit for those new things, including “one-off or ultra-low-volume cars” made to customer design specs, heritage models that include “pure continuation models or to a reimagined, contemporary specification,” and models that are only slightly outside of what GMA’s “normal” model line includes.
No word on when these cars will start to leave the factory in Surrey, but we’re sure you’ll hear about them. If you want one of your own, best get in line yesterday.
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