Gordon Murray's City Car Already Impressing With Race Car Tech

When most people see a small car they typically mutter "You couldn't pay me to get into one of those things! Imagine what it'd be like in a crash?"

Well, Gordon Murray is out to change that. The man responsible for the McLaren F1 has been tinkering around, for quite some time, with his new city car the T.27. Built using a Formula One-inspired composite monocoque and other production techniques, the car held up surprisingly well.

Note that the cabin has not been penetrated from what we can see and that the cage remained intact.


Gordon Murray Design is celebrating a crashing victory after its T.27 electric city car impressed in recent testing. The T.27 was subjected to the mandatory EEC frontal impact test, which means driving into a deformable offset barrier at 40mph...

[Source: AutoExpress]


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993Turbo - 1/20/2011 7:50:33 AM

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You know, that's nice but where the hell is the mp4?????? Not one piece of news for six months. How about a preproduction road test?

Agent00R - 1/20/2011 2:13:00 PM

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@993Turbo

No confirmation on this but I've heard rumors there has been delays due to factory issues.

Supposedly that SLR McLaren was just some leftover parts, which aided to the delay but this is all pure speculation.