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City car's a far cry from Murray's F1.


Byline: Richard Hammond

GORDON Murray This article is about the car designer. For other people named Gordon Murray, see Gordon Murray (disambiguation).
Gordon Murray (born 1946 in Durban, South Africa) is a renowned designer of Formula One race cars and the famous McLaren F1 'supercar' road car.
, the talented designer who gave the world the McLaren F1 sports car, is hard at work on something a little more affordable, called the T25.

However, it does have something in common with his 240mph F1: it has three seats - as you can see from the layout drawing Layout drawing

A design drawing or graphical statement of the overall form of a component or device, which is usually prepared during the innovative stages of a design.
 above.

Murray says three tall adults will fit in. Or, with just the driver, it'll hold 750 litres of shopping.

Murray has also come up with a new method of building cars that will cut the area and investment of a typical car factory by 80%.

Which is the reason this little city car could be sold for as little as pounds 6,000.

I can't wait.
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Publication:The Mirror (London, England)
Date:Sep 11, 2009
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