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To aficionados of auto-racing and high-performance sports cars, Gordon Murray is a legend. He's designed championship-winning Formula One cars, as well as two iconic, drop-dead-beautiful sports cars: the McLaren F1, one of the fastest road cars ever made, and the Mercedes SLR McLaren. These...
Murray's latest project is an environmentally friendly, compact commuter car - a change of focus he insists isn't as dramatic as it sounds. "Philosophically, they're quite similar," he says. "It's all about designing cars that are lightweight," which makes them highly efficient as well. The major difference...
But done it he has. His team in suburban London recently unveiled the T.25 car - a three-seater made of flyweight composite materials that is smaller than a Smart car but has more interior room and gets 80 miles to the gallon. He's also started work on a $14.9...
While Murray fully expects to license the designs of the T.25 and T.27 to manufacturers, they're essentially proof-of-concept cars. His main goal is to license the revolutionary manufacturing process he's invented to build the cars, which he says expends far less energy than more traditional auto...
It's a big challenge, because car-manufacturing hasn't changed much in 100 years. Body parts are still stamped out of sheets of steel and then shaped, welded together and painted - a process that is expensive and sucks up an awful lot of energy. Murray says his iStream system...