Murray’s city car is here

11th March 2009

A chance meeting with ex-McLaren F1 designer Gordon Murray in Geneva has thrown-up some intriguing revelations. The much-anticipated two-seater T25 city car – his self-titled design company’s first offering – is finished and ready for production!

However, besides a handful of demonstration prototypes, the sub-Smart ForTwo sized car won’t actually be built by Murray’s firm. Instead he’s looking to lease the car’s blueprint out to companies who can build the thing themselves. And apparently a number of big money organisations have already shown an interest, the majority of which aren’t actually car manufacturers.

And this is just the start of Murray’s plans. He wants to design a whole range of lightweight, eco-friendly cars and claims that a number of different models, with up to six-seats, are already in development,

“This is the definitely the future of car design,” claimed Murray. “Small flexible design companies will come up with the ideas, while the companies that buy the franchise for that car can build it for a more local market, using locally sourced materials – saving masses of energy on shipping.”