Gordon Murray T50
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I love Harry's videos. His passion and knowledge for cars is obvious, and despite being considerably well off, he comes across as very down to Earth and humble.
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I'll. take one in red.
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GM is 70 something now so probably looking to retire after this
He looks good for his age. I know people who look worse in their 50's.
Definitely more appealing than the Valkyrie (which is having major development issues). I wrote a blog on the three 3 seat hypercars coming out over the next several years: https://karenable.com/21st-century-3-seaters-mclaren-speedtail-scg-004-the-gma-t-50/ as a reference.
I'm confused by your URL.
How so? Its just a link to the article
Karen is my wife. Name of the website goes back to a term our kids came up with years ago.
If you read the blog, you'd know:
About Karenable
Karenable is a term our children invented to decide if a hotel or restaurant would meet Mrs SSO’s (aka Karen) standards. When planning different trips and vacations, the kids often would take a look at the hotels and immediately give the different venues a 1-5 “Karenable” rating..
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The project is far beyond the styling mock-up stage!
Keep an eye on its channel for more updates.
While both Murray and Newey are great race car designers, only one of them has ever produced a road car before. This is the core of Valkyrie's problem. Newey designed something that is brilliant......on a track at speed......that is completely detached from any cost constraints............which means it needs a lot of work to get it to function on the road and in traffic plus engineering so it can be produced at a cost that doesn't lead to major losses on each car delivered. As a reference, Bugatti lost several million on each Veyron they sold.
The Bugatti was first and foremost a vanity project and not an engineering based one, and it's initial goals were just plucked out of the air. Did it need 1001ps? Probably not, but that was one of the targets stated at the launch presentation so the engineers had to work to make that happen. That necessitated the 10 odd radiators that had to added to keep things cool, which mucked up the aero and added weight. Another problem was that the car had to go through the same stress testing as all Volkswagen group cars, so whilst it might make sense to run a 1.0 Polo through repeated braking tests going from 90-10% of max speed it's a bit pointless for the Bugatti where even reaching max speed on most roads was almost impossible (I seem to remember that it dropped out of max speed mode if too much steering angle was applied). Again making this work just adds pointless cost and complexity, and substantial re-engineering through the life of the project.
@Lashout_UK , thanks for those links.
@Lashout_UK , thanks for those links.
He doesn't. There are two other 3 seaters currently being sold, the McLaren Speedtail and the SCG 004S