Gordon Murray’s £1.37m T.33 supercar will make its public debut next month at the Goodwood motor racing circuit in Sussex.
The new T.33, the second supercar from GMA (Gordon Murray Automotive), is billed as the firm’s less costly and a lot more functional using and will on display in the Paddock area at Goodwood motor Circuit alongside the brand’s T.50, and T.50s flagships.
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A rival for Ferrari’s upcoming LaFerrari replacement and Koenigsegg’s newest hypercar, the V12-engined T.33 follows GMA’s policy of never producing a lot more than 100 units for a model. despite its eye-watering price, every example of the T.33 sold out within a week of the initial reveal earlier this year. production will start in late 2023, before customer deliveres start in 2024.
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The T.33 ditches the three abreast seating arrangement used on both the T.50 and the legendary, Gordon Murray-designed McLaren F1. As a result of its a lot more conventional two-seater layout, the T.33 gets its own chassis made from carbon fibre and aluminium, and loses the fan-based aerodynamics of the T.50, resulting in a neater, cleaner shape that’s not covered in the splitters or spoilers of some supercar rivals.
“It’s really a look that’s been in my head for lots of years – actually from just after we did the McLaren F1,” designer Gordon Murray told us at the car’s January reveal. “It’s absolutely not retro but there are a lot of small influences from my much-loved sports racing cars of the sixties – the likes of the Ferrari 206 Dino SP, or the Porsche 904. all of those cars are timeless, really, and that’s what we want to achieve with the T.33. In 20 years’ time, we think it’ll still look good.”
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The T.33’s crucial features include vertically stacked headlights, incorporating neat ‘hard points’ created for corner impact testing, basic round LED-based tail-lights, and pronounced haunches over the rear wheels. The body colour and the finishes on the ‘blade’ behind the door shutline and the roof-mounted ram-air intake will all be configurable by the customer – leading GMA to suggest that no two examples will be alike. Murray says that the buyer’s experience and level of involvement in the T.33 will be “almost identical” to that took pleasure in by T.50 customers, who have, on average, spent a lot more than six hours each in consultations with GMA on their car’s specification.
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